Why do mums put those large beaded necklaces...

[TheFancyPants]

..around their babies necks? Surely its not safe? Why are they fashionable?

bit worrying how many people on here are finding it in themselves to get worked up about this.

up to individual parents, if you dont agree with them dont get them for your child.

@MimiDaisy11

I assume because they're "natural" they can't harm you. That seems like the rationale they'd use.

Along with belladonna, opium, cannabis, tobacco and alcohol. All lovely natural things

The amber ones are for teething pain I think. Or maybe just wanting to teach pearl clutching early on 🤷‍♀️

@strawberrypip

bit worrying how many people on here are finding it in themselves to get worked up about this.

up to individual parents, if you dont agree with them dont get them for your child.

It's because crappy quasi-science and bullshit woo nonsense affects us all. Sometimes extremely seriously. Vaccine refusal is only one way we all all affected.

Unregulated drugs shouldn't be given to infants! Basic principle. Another is that anything with effects has side effects. So something either works and therefore has side effects (which is a public health issue) or it doesn't in which case it's fraud (and therefore a public matter as well).

Or maybe just wanting to teach pearl clutching early on

🤣🤣🤣 Lots of mumsnetters must have worn them as babies then. 😬

I will admit to buying an anklet when my baby was suffering with his teeth, it did nothing could never put a necklace on a baby

@strawberrypip

bit worrying how many people on here are finding it in themselves to get worked up about this.

up to individual parents, if you dont agree with them dont get them for your child.

Yep, the likes of the FDA should butt out.

And the NHS.

www.gwh.nhs.uk/about-us/news-archive-2019/keep-off-teething-necklaces/

I’m a midwife and once came across a woman who put one on her baby before they’d even moved off the labour ward to the postnatal ward. Not sure a baby a couple of hours old would be having much teething going on. 😄🙈

I have no idea of it works or now but I love amber and jade - as do small people around me - they make a grab and try to chew the bangles and large beads -so no choke hazards. I assumed mums used things like this for teething back in ye olden days... weren't old rattles silver and ivory?

But why would you judge a parent for aesthetic reasons? Because you don't like the look of a headband?

DS1 was in agony with his teeth, howled all night, vomited etc etc. Stuck an amber necklace on him, dropped him off at daycare and his carers said it was like having a different baby. No whinging, no red face.

I weighed the risk and was comfortable with that risk. And the risk was far outweighed by a baby that wasn't writhing in pain and biting down on my nipples. Win win.

I think they are to provide other women with something to bitch about.

but again, if parents know the risks and they are not illegal to buy what can you do? raise awareness certainly but it's like how cot bumpers are advised against now, I know people who still use them. I see people do all sorts of things I would never consider but it's not really up to me to tell others what they can and cant do...

the nhs advises lots of things that I dont see everyone following. up to other people if they choose to follow it.

another example, sleepy heads not recommended for overnight use, how big are they right now!? I think I'm the only person in my group who has a baby that never used one over night and they are not recommended for unsupervised sleep.

let parents make their own choices.

It's funny that the mums of those amber-necklaced babies are usually the first ones telling you all about the evils of vaccines and 'chemicals' and 'toxins', but are totally happy to dose their baby with unknown amounts of untested anaesthetic..

I've just googled amber I love a bit if woo, but I've always been scared of the chocking hazard with amber necklaces on babies.

Anyway, I have a poorly ankle. I'm going to wear some amber in it to relive the inflammation. I'll let you all know

but it's not really up to me to tell others what they can and cant do...
Indeed. And up to me to judge them for it if I want to.

I'd say I'm fairly woo but even these are too woo for me. I was given one when my second son was struggling with teething and it settled him because he could fiddle with the beads but that was all. I only let him have it when I was supervising him 1:1 and only during waking hours. I wore wooden teething necklaces for them to nom on and all 4 loved them.

I see people do all sorts of things I would never consider but it's not really up to me to tell others what they can and cant do...

If someone posted on MN asking about cot bumpers, I would express my opinion there as well.

DS1 was in agony with his teeth, howled all night, vomited etc etc. Stuck an amber necklace on him, dropped him off at daycare and his carers said it was like having a different baby. No whinging, no red face.

This an example of the Sports Illustrated curse.

There are many good reasons placebos look like they're working. None of these mean they are actually working. Reversion to the mean, placebo effect, nocebo effect, white coat effect, recency effect. And on and on. It's all science, just psychology rather than medicine,

@B33Fr33

Because they are woo and believe that a chemical contained in Amber (ridiculously high melting point) will magically transmit itself into their child's blood stream.

They will also tell you that since wearing it their child has potty trained at 6 months, never talks back and is already reading.

But hey. I've got magic cream to sell them.

😃

I also give you Salt Lamps. It’s an ionic bond that would take extremely high temperatures to break down but it’ll deffo waft salty goodness in your lounge with a cheap led bulb and a battery 🤦🏻‍♀️.

In one million years I would not put this around my baby's neck. Even seeing a picture of it makes me anxious!!

I’ve never had dental issues but a few months ago I had my wisdom tooth out. I was taking painkillers for 48 hours later, and I was very pleased I had given my kids actual medicine for their teething pain.

Everyone who uses these stupid necklaces or homeopathic treatments for their kids should be given the same for their pain - no nasty chemicals for them either.

judging is a waste of time really, especially when it comes to other peoples parenting. doesnt tend to go down brilliantly well.

They are to show that the parents are a bit thick and highly suggestible.

A question for those saying they don't work, how do you know? If they didn't work on your kids, that doesn't mean they don't work on anybody's, does it? Or have you something else that you're basing your opinion on?

I don't have an opinion either way, but I'm curious as to how people sound so sure.