Teething?
Last night Babyice went to sleep around 19:00, which is normal. At 20:35 he woke up, started crying and then started SCREAMING. We couldn’t stop him. We tried giving him his dummy, he pushed us away. We tried a bottle, he pushed it away. He screamed and screamed. He was stiffening his body and gurgling and crying. It was so distressing! He seemed to be in pain…I don’t know what else to think. He wouldn’t let us come near his mouth with anything (eventually after 10 minutes of screaming we tried to administer meds and failed). At some point he put both his fists to his mouth and continued to scream.
We had dressed him quite warmly, but noticed that he was sweating so we removed the polar fleece top he was wearing and replaced it with a long sleeve shirt. He kicks his blankets off and we are always worried that he might get get cold. Trying to change him didn’t help for the screaming. He screamed right through it and made it quite a difficult task, but we managed it.
We didn’t know what to do! We tried walking him, rocking him, singing to him, shhh-ing him and nothing worked. Then, just as suddenly as it began, it ended. Rudi cued me to put the dummy in and after numerous attempts he finally accepted it and shortly after that he fell asleep like nothing had happened.
I don’t know what to think. It scares me when he is like that and when we cannot console him. Could it be teething? Is this normal? I don’t think that it is night terrors, he seems completely awake. On Saturday it happened during the day. He was tired at the time, but he screamed for 30 minutes straight and eventually I managed to calm him down by taking him outside onto the balcony and once he had caught his breath I managed to get him to sleep.
Should I be worried?
Yup, this sounds like teething to me!
What I did when my boys were teething, (many years ago as they are teenagers now) I would keep teething rings in the freezer, and when one of them started their screaming fits, I would take one of the teething rings out of the freezer, let it warm up just a bit so the babies hands didn’t get frozen, and then I would add a tiny bit of teething gel like Baby Anbesol, to the part that goes in the mouth, and then I would rub it on the babies lips and gums while they were screaming because they try so hard to keep you away from their sore mouth as you now know.
Once they felt the ice cold teething ring touch their gums and the Baby Anbesol got on some of their sore gums, they would still cry, but stop screaming, and they would grab for it and place it in their own mouth and hold it there themselves because it just made them feel so so much better.
If opposed to using any type of teething gel, you can simply freeze a teething ring and use it that way, the cold makes it feel good by itself too because the cold numbs the gums up really good.
They will also start to chew on the teething rings because they are cutting their teeth and so chewing the cold teething rings really soothed them.
But yeah, this sounds so typical of teething. They don’t want you to go near their mouth, they are screaming, sweating, shoving their hands in their mouth, happens both during the day and at night, yup, your little BabyIce is definitely teething, so go get some teething rings at the store today if you don’t already have some, grab some teething gel like Baby Anbesol if you aren’t opposed to using it, because the cold teething ring may not sooth BabyIce by itself, you may end up having to use a teething gel, but try it cold on it’s own first, if it don’t work, try it cold with the teething gel on it.
Good luck and don’t stress too much even though we hate to see and hear our babies screaming in pain, this is all so very normal, every baby cuts their teeth the same way.
Could be! Try prodol.
Tandia had a very similar thing on Monday night. Woke up at 10:30 and wailed in pain (her sore cry). I don’t know if she was maybe still asleep coz her eyes stayed more or less closed but I did manage to feed her a bit to calm her but the second she stopped she wailed again. She kept waking for a few hours afterwards and i just kept shoving the dummy in. Then yesterday morning she was her bright shiny self again. SO weird. Never happened before. She’s never been inconsolable like that. I think in her case it was maybe a tummy ache (hadn’t been as regular as normal) or else a nightmare.
It could well be teething, hells its been too long for me to even remember!
Teething, or maybe he had a nightmare?
Nothing beats Prodol for teething pain…
And a dab of vanilla essence has a calming effect on distraught babies