Is DD teething??

Butterfly_Princess · June 14th, 2008, 02:46 PM

Hey
Me again

Im wondering if my little miss rosey cheeks here is teething.
Last night from about 6pm-midnight she was non stop crying, wouldnt sleep anywhere but me, wouldnt let me put her down if only for 2 seconds (even though she has been crying most nights the past few nights, this is really unusual for her, she would be happy to be in her rocker usually, and would be in bed asleep by 9pm, 10pm at the latest). I thought it may have been coz she might have been hurting from the chiro that afternoon (and it still could be so).
But when i put her in my bed with me at midnight in an atempt to get her to sleep and get me to sleep, i hear her sucking on her little hand, which she has been doing for a few days now. So i got up to go get her dummy coz there was no way i was going to get to sleep with slurp suck suck all night. I gave her her dummy and she wasnt taking it all in, but if i let it go it was steadily in her mouth. I turned the light on and i realised she was BITING on it. She has never done this before. I took it out and put my finger in her mouth to see if she was biting, and she was, with a lot of pressure. So i gave her her dummy back and held it in for her so she can chomp down on it, eventually she sucked it all in and was just biting down where the sucky bit joins the handle bit and went to sleep.
She seems okay this morning. Not unsettled in the slightest, is a rather happy baby. I tried looking in her mouth, but TBH i wouldnt really know what id be looking for any way.

Is it possible she is teething, or was she just hurting after her chiro visit??

**Trillian** · June 14th, 2008, 02:56 PM

You don't think she could have been hungry at all? It is possible that she is beginning to teethe - some babies start quite early, but it is really hard to know. Often there isn't a lot to look out for, sometimes you don't see anything in their mouth at all because a lot of the pain is caused by the movement of the teeth inside the gum, before it is even close to the skin. If she is like that again tonight, I would try feeding her first and see if that helps just to rule out hunger as a cause.

Butterfly_Princess · June 14th, 2008, 03:04 PM

Nope she definately wasnt hungry, i offered her every hour but she refused after a few little sucks. She ususally doesnt feed after 9pm - 4am, she seems to have dropped all those feeds (lucky me)

**Chocaholic** · June 14th, 2008, 04:20 PM

Sounds like what my son used to do when his teeth were moving under his gums. This went on and off for a few months before they got close to the surface.