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.

They look so uncomfortable . I don't care about the whys as I don't believe teething causes all the ailments that are attributed to it ( previous battles on mn about this aplenty).
It just looks irritating to wear to me.

Ha ha I thought of this thread when my poor boy woke up in the night screaming. If only I'd had some cynic acid or whatever it's called :o

Recharging them in the moonlight? Surely not. Never heard of that. Haha!

I agree on the big head bands on newborn, bold baby girls. Now that is an affliction, surely!? Purely for aesthetic purposes too...

The magic necklaces are just for aesthetic reasons too though

The latest thing is to put them on newborns. Literally on the labour ward.

I've had one or two women do this. Appparantly it all helps soothe the baby or something even pre teething.

Personally I think they look like a choking hazard but what do I know.

They're supposed to work through mystic amber power? I assumed they were there for babies to chew on. I always wondered if amber was really the best thing for that.

Never used an amber necklace, and I don't think I know anyone who has.

I bought a Sophie the Giraffe, though, just because it's the only teething toy which babies can chew on with their back teeth. All the others are huge and round, so only good for when the front teeth are coming through.

It does look like a dog toy, though, and ungrateful DS2 paid it no attention.

True hollie , but it is not the primary purpose. However, those headbands are utterly pointless on bold babies... And look rather uncomfortable on wee newborns :(

Keep, come on - the primary purpose of magic amber is that they look "cute" and "hippy". Most people don't genuinely believe in their magic, moon-charged power.

Wow where did the "charge them with moonlight" theory come from?

There's no such thing as moonlight, it's just the light of the sun on the moon....why would that be any different to the sun?

If they said soak up the powers of moon magnetism or gravity it would be at least a more believable process.

i thought they were supposed to just be on there skin not for actual chomping on? i dont get the giraffe it looks like a plastic toy no different from any other plastic toy!

out of my three my first has had the worst problem with teeth coming in and my last has had the least trouble none of them have had an amber necklace

I know loads of hippy mamas and they all seem to have them. Doesn't bother me.

I'd say YABU, but only on the basis that you sound like your karma is wonky and you need to chill a bit and not get annoyed by minor things.

How does the beads being tied individually make these things safer?

Succinic, succinic,
Is there anything in it?
Is it such a gaffe
To laugh at the giraffe?
Recharged by the moon,
Could you be such a loon?
Tell, me is that right?
A teether you can't bite?
I could go on, I am sure
But that would be such a chore!

Suck Cynic, Suck Cynic,
I am a Suck Cynic!

So that they won't all slip off the string onto the floor and cause someone to slip and caper over them frantically, like a character in a Mr Bean episode.

That's what I was thinking, Wally.

Absolutely none of the claims for their effectiveness or safety make sense.

I'm very cynical about amber necklaces - they look like a choking hazard to me and dd sure as hell won't be wearing one. It's all about the Anbesol, and Sophie, of course. Gotta love a chomp on those back legs

There has been a lot of work done on the placebo effect, and sometimes it has been shown to work, in proper scientific studies, even when the patient and doctor both know it is a placebo. (Not for his product - but for various medicines.)

If people want to use them, and they are doing no harm (and if a baby had been strangled by one, or choked, I am sure the DM and BBC1 would have picked it up, straight away - anything to make women feel guilty!) then let them. And if others want to bask in their superiority, knowing it is all hooey and woo, well, let them.

*Do you think biting and chewing things generally doesn't help with teething or are you just annoyed at amber necklaces generally?

They aren't for chewing on are they? At least I hope not. I assume it's some "special" property of amber and I agree with the op.

Do you think biting and chewing things generally doesn't help with teething or are you just annoyed at amber necklaces generally?

Sorry bold fail in my previous post.

I thought they looked very cute, had no clue they were for teething.

I'm a great believer in medicine, however, both my boys had such drama teething I'm sure the little suckers were trying to hack their way out with ice picks I think I'd have tried pretty much anything offered just to stop their pain. Placebo or not.

Oh great, I just burnt my toast replying to this post. MN is very bad for me.