Is She Teething? - Elkridge,MD

Updated on August 26, 2010
M.W. asks from Elkridge, MD
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My little girl (now 7 months old) usually sleeps a MINIMUM of 7 hours through the night. Lately though, she's been waking up every 2 - 4 hours crying. In the past, if she woke up crying she would just soothe herself back to sleep after about 10 minutes by curling up in a corner or finding a new position, or sucking her thumb. However, now she is able to pull herself with the bars on the crib into a standing position where she waits for myself or my husband to come save her--- and she can't soothe herself back to sleep in a standing position! Might she be teething? She just mastered the "crawling" milestone, so we just passed that night awakening factor. I don't know what else it could be. Last night she woke up at least 5 times until waking for good at 7am. In the past
when we go in to calm her down, she falls right back to sleep. Last night she went right back to sleep a couple times, but a couple times she became cranky and cried even harder and louder after we took her out of the crib. Are there any GOOD remedies for teething at night... ANYTHING you have found PROVEN TO HELP BABY SLEEP for TEETHING?

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T.W.

answers from Chicago on

She's probably teething. Does she have any teeth? My daughter got her first tooth at 3 1/2 mo, her 20th & last tooth at 17mo (yes, she was a very early teether). She didn't sleep through the night 'til all her teeth were in! Coincidence, maybe, but I think teething really bothered her. Neither Tylenol or Orajel really worked...we gave them to her (or homeopathic teething drops) if absolutely necessary, but it didn't cause her to sleep through the night.

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C.O.

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Hylands teething tablets. They really do work and sooth. Giving her a little tylenol or motrin during break through is fine too. Verify with your pediatrician as to the dosage and preference.

The Hylands teething tablets are wonderful though. My son got to the point that when he was hurting, he's crawl to me, open his mouth and point with a finger. I would get the hylands and he would eagarly take them and then sigh and relax.

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C.T.

answers from Fayetteville on

Mine teethed late-starting at 9 mos and tylenol did help them, they are both really good medicine takers so there was no fight to get them to take it, it soothed the pain enough that they could relax and go back to sleep-it can't hurt to try.

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K.L.

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Aside from teething, are you sure she knows how to sit back down? Since you find her standing up, maybe she's getting "stuck" there and is at a loss how to get back down. That's what happened with my son - we'd find him standing up and have to help him lay back down and then he'd go back to sleep. After a week or two it stopped.

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J.P.

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My daughter started teething at 3 months, before she was big enough to use teething rings, etc. A dose of Tylenol each day was like magic for her and for me!

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J.P.

answers from Boise on

Definitely tylenol. You can try the hylands during the day to see if they help at all, but neither of my kids were helped by them. I hope that yours is.

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