Teething ... what a pain!

The most difficult stage of a baby growing up would be the teething process. Poor baby needs to go through so much pain to get the pearlies out. Doesn't seem fair for a little baby.

I have tried a couple of ways to soothe the swollen gums when teething begins and mind you, the poor baby would be cranky, unsettled and in pain for a very long time before the pearlies made their appearance... as long as 2-3 months, no kidding! We used to apply teething gel for Jonathan liberally until PD told us that we should limit our use to only 2 times a day max because of the salicylic acid which is not very good for little baby. Then we chilled the teething toys and gave it to him to chew. I bought all kinds of teething toys, from hard to water-based teething toys. It helped a little and of course, prayer that Jesus would take away the pain.

Now that it's Matthew's time to go through the tedious cycle, we soon realised that no 2 babies are the same. For example, Matt doesn't like the teething gel. So we totally skip this round. Then he only likes the hard kind of teething toys. Recently, he likes those longish teething toys that are not chilled.

fruity teething toys

I was surfing internet and thought that a fruit shaped teether might be a good change for Matt. I believe the mummies would be familiar with the banana tethers, the giraffe teether etc. Yup, this is from the same website and I know the seller was also at the baby market. Anyway, the owner of this website gave me a good discount (shh... she was from the mummies group I was in for ah Jon), so I got the grape and strawberry.

teether with clip

The teether is BPA free and is soft and longish. The best part is that it came with a teether clip which I can clip onto Matt so he won't drop his teether.

chewing non-stop

Well, a picture said a thousand words. Matt loves his new teethers that he would chew and chew and chew. I guess this is the answer to relief him of swollen and itchy gums. Hang on there, baby!