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.

You can, as long as you continue to remind our customers that you can't just wrap your baby in any bacon, it has to be spiritually enhanced Irish bacon that you have exposed to the light of the moon dancing on water to activate its spiritual molecular essence and traditional drug-free healing qualities.

100% of parents who have tried BACON-O-TEETHE have felt a greater connection to the Earth, in addition to a greater urge to make bacon sandwiches.

Bac-o-teethe! I dunno about all this science stuff, I just know it works!

We have a Sophie. DD4 loves it! Keeps her very quiet. She chews her legs and gets the feet right in at the back of her gums. Just for info. Sophie is:

''Made from 100% natural rubber derived from the sap of the Hevea tree, Sophie’s flexible, renewable, natural materials and non-toxic food grade paint mean she is a safe and natural teething toy for your little one. Over time the paint may wear off Sophie as baby plays - especially if she is chewed lots, or harsh chemical wipes are used on her.''

Personally the choking hazard would worry me about a beaded necklace. Even knotted. Couple of women in the NCT group are using them. They say they are working ... but at the same time they are using teething powders and calpol.

the filthiest is hired as head of advertising for bac-o-teethe. Available soon.

waits for millions to pour in from the gullible, I mean, er, open-minded

Will there be a free range vegan version? Or a fakin-bakin version for kosher/halal diets?

There will be a special raw food vegan version made of carefully painted beetroot. Trained healing baconologists will place their hands on the beetroot's aura and vibrate the molecules into a bacon-like analgesic matrix.

quits job
copies and pastes leedy's totally legit science onto Powerpoint presentation
awaits investors

Hmmmmm analgesic matrices....

I have used them with both children. I hate how they look and I am embarrassed by them. So why do I keep using them? Because they work. Don't ask me how, or why. Some things are beyond explanation. Yes, they ruin the baby photos imo, but that is a small price to pay. The people who say about beads coming off etc. must be aware that there are cheap imitation necklaces out there, which do not work. I was very sceptical, cynical etc., but am converted.

That is to say, I hate how the necklaces look and am embarrassed by the necklaces, not my children - they are the most gorgeous in the world. Obviously.

"Some things are beyond explanation."

Nothing is beyond explanation.

Well, there's some things that we don't have an explanation for yet.

But until I see some results from a proper scientific trial on amber necklaces I'm sticking with the opinion that they don't affect teething in the slightest.

And by proper scientific trial, I mean the kind of thing where you start with loads of babies, give group 1 no teething remedies at all, group 2 amber necklaces (and no other teething remedies), group 3 calpol (but nothing else) as required. If that kind of trial showed amber necklaces to be more efficient than calpol I'd reconsider.

Although i think it's unlikely there'll be a trial like that, given concerns over babies choking on beads.

But then you've got the whole tolerence to pain and whingy babies conundrum. I have a high pain threshhold and tend not to whinge if I an sick or sore. My sister on the other hand...

DS is 2 and has cut all his teeth without so much as a whimper or a disturbed nights sleep, with the exception of the first two. Some children just don't seem to be bothered by teething. But if I'd chosen to use amber necklaces, I might have assumed it was that which had helped. I suspect most people whose babies were apparently helped by them are similar, and are seeing the placebo effect. There is no evidence that they work!

SpanielFace stealth boast!

No, not really, I'm just very

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spaniel, both mine suffered, my daughter for much less time, because by then I already knew the power of the amber! . Ordere a necklace, chamged child, no issues since (so far). And Hakluyt, chicken or egg?

Sorry for typos.

Catsize how does the power of the amber work, though? Did you know that it would have to be heated to an extremely high temperature to release the snake oil inside? I could also give you a sample of two children - one of mine suffered, one didn't. No amber, but if I had used it on the non-sufferer it would've been very easy to attribute this to the beads, if I'd had them.

OP. Yanbu. They are ugly and entirely pointless.

TFPA, I have no idea. I also don't know how a lightbulb works, but i am just glad it does. Re:your children, I agree, but that is why I posted that both my children have had tooth issues, to address the point made by a previous poster about some children sailing through.

But you could find out how a lightbulb works. Easily. And the explanation would fit in with the laws of science.

Amber necklaces, however, don't and can't.

catsize sometimes they suffer sometimes they dont.

DS had his first febrile convulsion cutting one tooth, they couldnt find anything else wrong with him that could have caused the temperature. He suffered with some teeth and didnt with others. Just as every child teeths differently, every tooth is different as well. Teething is self limiting, so the timing of the necklace may just come along with the end of that tooth etc

Lol at the light bulb comparison. Light bulbs are a human invention, invented by scientists who clearly did understand how they worked, and which you can read about in any encyclopedia or GCSE physics textbook. Amber necklaces have no scientific evidence to back them up, and a whole lot of evidence to disprove their magical powers.

If amber necklaces work, why has no one ever done a double-blinded placebo trial? Why have drug companies not picked up on it, and started marketing them? Why is there not ongoing research into their properties to help other people with painful conditions?

Correlation is NOT the same as causation, and a study of two children counts for nothing I'm afraid.

Oh my word, some of you make me giggle. Of course I know that some people know how a lightbulb works etc., like they know how the iPad works, or a fridge, or anything else, but I was being asked how the power of amber works and I don't honestly know. All I was saying is that I believe it does. I know it is more woo than a lightbulb, but it was just an expression of my ignorance of something else that I know works without me having to delve into an explanation of why it works. There is no correlation between amber necklaces and lightbulbs, other than my personal ignorance.
I am not saying my children are a scientific study, I can only speak from personal experience. My HV has seen the difference too, to the point that she is suggesting people try them. No, she probably shouldn't, but yes she does, and yes, she has seen changes in other children. Use them, don't use them, I don't care - I was just sharing my experience.
And Hakluyt, I guess you can't explain chicken/egg.