Extreme teething

[supergolden88]

Just when I think I have figured something out about baby boy he goes and changes completely to keep me on my toes.

He has always been rather sensitive - reacting to everything from too much foremilk to dry house in rather extreme ways (frothy poos and horrendous nappy rash / horrendous nasal congestion and skin rash).

His sleeping has not been very consistent but he did manage a few long stretches together with frequent wake ups.

Past two days he seems to be teething: chewing hands/toys constantly,drooling red cheeks and most importantly not managing to sleep longer than an hour in the night and minutes in day. Last night was terrible: bedtime 7.30, up at 9.20, 11, 1, 2.45 and then in bed with us writhing. Up at 7am and only now managed to get him down.typing this over cot ready to shhh again etc.

Ready to calpol him tonight but please tell me if anyone else has experienced such extreme reaction to teething. At 3 1/2 months seems early to me. My daughter had teeth out at 6m but don't recall such bad reaction to it possibly because her sleeping was worse than baby boy's.

[Fuschia]

Has he got a temperature? I'd be inclined to rule out other possible problems (ears, UTI)

[Saffron]

My daughter started teething around 2/3mo, but no teeth appeared until around 7/8 months. It was very troubling for her too. :(

[supergolden88]

No temperature.

[supergolden88]

OK please let me figure this out. Gave him a bit of Calpol and he managed to sleep 8pm - 12.50am. Woke up chewing his hands like a mad thing and had 60ml of expressed milk from a bottle then breastfed till asleep again. Put him down at 1.30am.

Was up at 2.40am and then that was it. Nursing for couple of minutes got him back to sleep momentarily but second he was back in the cot he would wake up again. No amount of rocking, shushing etc would let him sleep longer than 5 minutes. I have been up all night long - even though I went to bed at 10pm I was kept awake by insomnia or too much caffeine till baby kept me up.

I tried to let him sleep next to me but I don't feel comfortable doing it and don't really like the idea of the baby nursing all night long - his daytime feeds are disrupted enough as it is.

Mercy.

[ladywotlunches]

Oh no - that little boy of yours likes to test you for sure!!

Sorry I don't have more advice, but a thought that just occurred to me when you mentioned your own insomnia because of too much coffee - could that be his problem too? I don't want to get into restricting diet whilst bf thing, but if he might be particularly sensitive to it, it could be creating a vicious cycle?? Could you bear to part from the cup for the day and give it a try? :-S

[sandy_rose]

I had this with my little one, chewing on hands, waking up every hour crying, I took her to dr who diagnosed tonsillitis - she did develop a temperature but only after a few days of the crying/non sleeping. Worh checking out?

[supergolden88]

I honestly don't think there's anything the matter with him - he is bright eyed and bushy tailed it's me who is about to be reduced to a weeping heap. Just spend an hour trying to settle him for a nap. Again he would fall asleep on my shoulder or breastfeeding but wake up in cot. And after an hour of crying/hand chewing/not sleeping have brought him back downstairs. You would think that with the night he had and no nap since he would be napping, but no.

If this continues I will take to GP just in case.

[sandy_rose]

Ummm, that does sound exactly like my one and I was really surprised when the Gp said. Wouldn't even have taken her to the dr to be honest but we were there for something else. Anyway, best to trust your own instinct I find but do check it out if it carries on.