Those ridiculous amber necklaces...

[moxon]

...that all babies seem to be wearing these days. No, people, it does not help with teething pain/inflammation/positioning. It's just pieces of amber. You would need to heat it to extract the oil which you can use to make your baby smell like the inside of a potpourri bowl after using as a massage liquid base if you want, but it still won't do jack to give your baby a carefree pearly whites experience. I am getting so tired of everyone buying into this new-age old-age rubbish, and seeing otherwise perfectly reasonable parents stringing up their babies necks in gimicky stuff.

Why the hell does it matter to you? If it works/seems to work then other than you using it as a way to justify judging other parents, I just don't see the problem.

My daughter and I have matching amber necklaces, and we look adorable wearing them together.

No thank you, we'll stick to Dentinox and Sophie the Giraffe here.

(I know Sophie is scorned but DD can't get enough of her. I nearly cried when we lost her. The little bastard .... Sophie, that is, not DD! )

Luckily Sophie's not all that popular where we live. I haven't seen many out and about at all.

YANBU it's all bollox.

youthecat, my DC has trouble with just staying sitting upright when confronted with distraction, so I suspect his ethereal energies are just permanently misaligned. Doubt amber will help for that either...

We had a Sophie, but our dog stole it from our daughter. It does look and sound just like a dog toy, so I can't really blame her.

DS has one. Had it since he was 3 months and is now 2. I truly believe it works but I'm an old hippy so what do I know

Sorry to be a pedant, Hakluyt (and to derail the thread!) but it was Dara O'Briain who talked about separating out the stuff that works and calling it medicine . Unless he and Tim Minchin are both using the same script !

There are quite a few dc round here that wear them. They can't be that magic as there were 2 boys wearing them at toddler group grizzling with red cheeks and their mum and childminder both muttered something about awful teething problems.
I think they look awful though, and don't believe for a minute that they work. However, it's not something I'd tell someone, just what I believe.

I work in an operating theatre, involved in surgery which, in my opinion, is the very opposite of homeopathy and woo, yet three of my usually sane, scientific colleagues bought these for their toddlers. That and saladmaster pans made me question the qualifications of several of them.

Whiskwarrior Dara did indeed do it first, I believe; think Tim did one a few years later. I like Dara-standup one better, but the animation was fun too. I'll meet you in your corner, in case I am wrong. I'll bring the vials of water, you bring the ...um...rest of the water.

Both my dd's have one.

I try anything so don't know if it works or not but neither suffered from teething pain. Also each bead is double knotted. Its as much of a hazard say as a tiny button sewn onto a baby cardigan.

Geraldine (there should be an emoticon for 'bangs head on table'). (Or 'operating table' in this case).

"I try anything so don't know if it works or not "

Yes you do. It didn't. It can't!!

Well it worked for us.

No it didn't. You put the necklace on. The pain eased. Or your child wore a necklace and did not suffer from teething pain.

These are coincidences. Not cause and effect.

My twins have never been bothered by teething, except for the canines which were a bit bothersome.

I was actually thinking the other day, that had I put them in amber necklaces, i would probably have said that they had been very effective and had stopped my twins from suffering with any teething pain.

Except obviously that would have been a completely false assumption!

I've clicked on the first Google hit for these necklaces.

There's this at the very top of the website

"According to EU Toy safety regulations EN-71-1 our necklaces and anklets are not suitable to use as Toys for children under 36 months. Our necklaces and anklets are not toys, please do not allow your children to play with or chew on them. Our children's jewellery must be worn under adult supervision."

They're not going to be much use for teething then, are they?

No no Hajkyut...mine really did work because, well, because mine are magical

Why would anyone place a necklace round a baby's neck?

That's just irresponsible imo

Ooh, sorry, allisgood- I didn't understand......

What's wrong with Calpol? Child in pain, administer painkiller, pain goes, sorted.

Allisgood1 and fcuipuk

My dd cut 4 teeth at a time without us even noticing. She didnt have an amber necklace. She never suffered with teething not even as a teenager with a severely impacted tooth. Some children just dont suffer whether they have a silly necklace on or not. You are confusing correlation with causation.

I don't care if they work or not, are double knotted or hand welded by pixies. They are a strangulation and chokin hazard and won't be going anywhere my little one. Period!