DD seems to have started teething at 8 wks???

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In the past week, DD has started to sometimes rub her fist against her gums & cheek, and started drooling a lot. When we look in her mouth, we can't check the bottom gum, but the front teeth on the top gum seem to be really prominent. When I saw the HV, she said it might be the case, but it can take up to a year for teeth to come through.

Has anyone got any experience of early teething? What did you do?

Thanks.

Ds1 started at 10 weeks, ds2 at 6(!!) weeks and Ds3 is currently having a mare of a time with the sodding things and he started at 8 weeks.

Teetha is fab, camomile tea poured into ice-cube tray once frozen they can be thickly wrapped in muslin squares and rubbed across the gum to give relief. Teething rings are bugger all use in the beginning as they can't hold them and im not keen on over-medicating little tiny ones so I personally steered clear of bonjela and calpol. As they get bigger though the teething rings are good as are the mesh chew rings that you can put apple, carrot etc in and they gum through the plastic and the food is mushed down through the plastic mesh. Foods that you'd steer clear of for fear of choking are suddenly safe and FAB for teething.

Best of luck - its heartbreaking to watch them in pain when they're so small :( if I could grow them for my little man I would xxxx

Thanks for the tips - will try them asap. Just got to get through the first jabs later today first