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Help!
I officially don't know what to do. Scarlett is a great sleeper, she naps well now, she goes to bed no problem most nights. Bedtime routine is this, she has a bottle I take her upstairs and change her into her jammies put her into bed, play a little tuck in game and toss put her soother into her mouth and kiss her goodnight and play a quick game of peek a boo and then she goes to sleep. She doesn't get overly excited she just smiles and then rolls onto her side and sleeps. IF she wakes up she will only cry when she can't get the soother back into her mouth or if she has gas or diaper issues.
I know that I have been very lucky in this respect. However she has a couple more teeth coming in and she is feverish and I know she hurts. I have given her tylenol but she just lies there screaming bloody murder, she doesn't even settle when I pick her up. She just screems herself to exhaustion and goes to sleep for a feww hours and then wakes up again once the tylenol wears off and she starts all over again. What I did when the first two teeth came in was gave her popcicles but this time she won't put them in her mouth.
Any more tips and tricks? Anything to help her get through the night? During the day I have it handled but she is exhausted and so am I and in light of todays events I am just too drained right now I really needs a nights sleep.
Re: Help!
I don't really have any advice as I've been going through that in the past month with Austin's teeth. I could eventually settle him by singing you are my sunshine and all my loving by the beatles but as soon as I laid him down he would start screaming again.
Maybe try buying one of those raspberry soothers that you keep in the freezer and give that to her instead of a regular one? Have you tried infants motrin? I find that works a little better on Austin then tylenol does. The only other thing I can suggest, which you may not want to do is to bring her to bed with you then she can be close to you and you can doze off for a few minutes.
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1.Hylands teething tablets sold at health food stores
2. Make sure she is sleeping elevated, using a wedge in her crib, if possible or sleeping in the swing or bouncy chair. In dentistry we learned that when you lay horizontal, the blood from your heart tends to pump through your body and to the head much harder/faster therefore stimulating nerve endings more = more pain. This is most noticable when babies are teething or a person has an abcsessed tooth.
Great tip, Betty! I would have never thought of that.
Ditto - Thanks Betty!