To buy an amber teething necklace?

[Stuckunderababy]

Ok, ok, I am the world's biggest sceptic and am well aware there is no scientific evidence to show they work, but I have the teething baby from hell and am desperate!! So many people swear by them that my 'bollocks' stance is starting to wane.

So, is it a placebo and you just blame the baby being grumpy on something else, or should I part with 15 of my hard earned pounds for the miracle cure?

Lilyaldrin I think I may invest in some blue socks!!

ItsAllGoingToBeFine

Both of mine wore blue socks and had no trouble teething, its definitely worth a go

Either it doesn't work, in which case save your money. Or it does, in which case you are putting an unmeasured, untested, unregulated drug into your baby. I think I would prefer if it didn't work. Anything with effects has side effects.

Babies who get better once the necklace have been put on just demonstrate that people tend to get better shortly after the point when they are most desperate (hence creating belief in the last mad 'cure' tried). Particularly with teething, the point when you think you can't take much more, tends to be 24 hours before the tooth breaks through and everything improves (until the next tooth).

If you have £15 to spend, a bottle of quite nice wine (for you not the baby) will probably be more helpful.

Are any of the people that you know who swear by them medically trained? Able to offer evidence as to their efficacy? Taking part in double blind testing which could prove that they work somehow? Because if not, then the chances are that they are just as desperate and keen for a solution as you are, and likely to be swayed by coincidence and the placebo effect. Why don't you try wearing one and see if that helps?

Sometimes I set fire to a tiny piece of amber to show students that it burns and that you can smell the resin that came from a tree hundreds of years ago.

True but irrelevant :)

It's not just the evidence - the actual chemistry that is supposed to be happening makes no sense, unless your baby is so hot as to be actually on fire. In a furnace.

I know how it feels to be so desperate that you'll try things you'd normally never consider, I'm normally very sceptical and with a science backhround but when DS had horrendous colic I would have considered almost anything. But these necklaces are ripoff and more importantly are choking hazards - I'd stick with the calpol and frozen flannel to chew on.

Used one and it worked a charm!

Also, if you are going to buy one, make sure it is actually made of amber, not amber coloured plastic...

The plural of anecdote is STILL not data.

OP I have one from a company called Little Acorns to Might Oaks, my MIL gave it to us for DS2 but I didn't use it. I can post it to you if you'd like it, pm me if you do

Does it matter if it is real amber or amber coloured?

Teething is hard for every parent. Just stick to bonjela and paracetamol

I have an amber bracelet and my dd1 has a matching necklace and dd2 has a matching anklet. Because they are pretty. (My husband is lucky, having a wife with such a cheap favourite stone!!) Do i think they work as a teething aid? Well no, probably not, although Ive done no research to disprove it. Dd2 had no trouble teething at all, but some kids just dont seem to struggle with it.

Aimee thanks that's really kind but my bollocks stance has been given a boost by some of the replies on here so I'll save you the trouble.

Time to woman up and push on through - there aren't that many teeth left to go

My dc also wore blue socks,.and teething was a breeze,lilyaldrin you could be on to something there

My nephew had a necklace one and it looked fucking awful imo.possibly.because it just looked too.tight

Have you tried painkillers?

I just gave calpol when it was bad. I'm amazed that more people don't

What the blithering fuck are they? beside a big heap of woo

I second Ashton & Parsons teething powders - it's like baby crack!

I bought one as I was passing the amber shop in Southwold on holiday. DD2 was one of the most miserable teethers I have known. I would have be willing to try anything to calm her down and by this point it had been 3 weeks of sleepless nights. Properly sleepless for me, when DD2 finally passed out DD1 would wake up.

Dh rolled his eyes but shrugged. Perhaps it works, perhaps having now tried absolutely EVERYTHING I calmed down a bit and that calmness had an effect on DD2, but from that night we've only had more normal miserableness from her.

lilyaldrin it's supposed to be baltic amber for the chemical effect (that would only work if the child was superheated). For placebo and parent calming it could be anything but I wasn't taking the chance that I didn't believe in it enough.

but then I am a bit woo at the best of times

I also got myself a rather nice amber necklace while I was in there, but that's altogether different.

What possible difference would amber-colored plastic make? Both plastic and amber just sit there, releasing no painkiller whatsoever.

Even if the amber was giving off an analgesic, it would do about as much good as rubbing crushed paracetamol on your skin: None.

I had one for my DD totally waist of money! Went in the bin after about a months!

Yabu. Total bollocks and I don't get why people who don't think it's bollocks find it acceptable to basically give their child an untested drug. There's no way they'd be allowed if it wasn't bollocks. Both of my dcs had a rough time with their first two teeth, all other teeth came through will no issues at all. They do not have teething necklaces. Strangely enough my friends who shove s necklace round their kids neck also have a similar experience but put the lack if teething issues down to the necklace.

no science at all.

mind the baby doesn't choke on the bits. And do try not to waste your money on this crap, sleep-deprived as you may be.

remember it isn't a crime to sell snake-oil to the gullible.