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Advice on Amber teething necklaces

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Keelynskye · 13/08/2013 10:11

I have heard alot about these amber teething necklaces and wondered if any one have used them and I if u have had good or bad experiences with them and where the best place to buy them please help

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curlew · 13/08/2013 22:31

If you don't like giving ibuprofen, why are you happy with the unknown and untested vapours supposedly given off by warmed amber?

5madthings · 13/08/2013 22:38

I have no idea if they work but they look cute, I was given one as a gift and mine wore it tho never to sleep. You can put them round the ankle tho which under a sock and in a grobag would be safe,I sometimes wrap it twice round my wrist and wear it as a bracelet.

Do make sure you get one that is individually knotted and has a catch designed to be worn by a small child. I think mine came from greenbaby but they are no more sadly.

ExBrightonBell · 13/08/2013 22:48

5Madthings, they don't work and cannot work in the way that are suggested on the websites that sell them.

I guess that putting one on an ankle under a sock, sleep suit and sleeping bag would be safer than round a baby's neck. However I would be unhappy with putting anything like this in a baby's cot just in case the beads came off. As I've mentioned before I am very risk averse.

curlew · 13/08/2013 22:53

Why aren't the people who think they work worried about over dosing and side effects?

5madthings · 13/08/2013 22:54

My babies never slept in cots they were in bed with us dd still is so they were always by us.as I said tho mine never wore them to sleep as I didn't feel comfortable but I can see that round the ankle, under a sock, in grobag is probably OK.

I just think they look cute, my dd is 2.5 and asks for her 'nekace' :)

ExBrightonBell · 13/08/2013 23:02

Cot or bed (or Moses basket, sidecar cot, crib, travel cot, or whatever) - I would still be worried about the thing snapping and bead(s) being loose. If it did snap then the loose string of beads in itself is a choking/strangulation risk.

breatheslowly · 13/08/2013 23:23

My DD has never shown any signs of discomfort when teething, I think this may well be because she has never had an amber teething bracelet . She once had some of that teething powder, but only because I was too polite to decline it from a friend.

valiumredhead · 13/08/2013 23:49

Forget strangulation, one of those beads would have been straight up my d's nose

didireallysaythat · 13/08/2013 23:52

Can I get one to help with my wisdom teeth ?

I may need two. I need all the help I can get in the cute department..

5madthings · 14/08/2013 00:41

They are double knotted and attached a certain way so they can't come off though, my necklace has been worn buy five kids and been put through hell, no sign of wear etc its never broken. Anyway I just think it looks cute and in the daytime when I am with them the whole time I think its safe enough.

Seb101 · 14/08/2013 08:27

Bruffin;

If you read my posts; I never claimed they work. There's no proof, I understand that. I actually said I like using necklace because a) they look cute and b) I'm open minded enough to believe its possible to work; mostly 'woo' I know. I believe it MAY have helped my baby. I've not made any causation claims or stated my opinion as fact. Your coming across as very rude and completely unable to accept people have different views.

elfycat · 14/08/2013 08:27

curlew I'm not adverse to given ibuprofen. I was a recovery nurse for many years and I gave out so many drugs for pain, and dozens more for the side effects of those drugs. I have no problem with drugs.

I'm not too worried about the overdosing of amber as I have a decorative piece in a necklace (as have many others) which I wear regularly and as you point out, it probably doesn't work in the way that's being suggested.

I bought my teething child a necklace as then I knew I'd done everything I would be happy with her having. Then I could relax. Perhaps that works? Though it might involve some weird woo-bond with a child to have any effect. I doubt a calmer mother would work any other way, a less shrill edge to the voice for example hasn't been scientifically proven to work.

ExBrightonBell · 14/08/2013 08:47

Seb, there is being open minded, and then there is being prepared to ignore plain facts. Amber necklaces do not work as explained - the claims made about how they work are not possible. The only effect they can have is on the thoughts and beliefs of the mum/dad.

bruffin · 14/08/2013 09:16

Exactly Exbrightonbell

Jewellery on babies very rarely looks cute, just plain tacky IMHO.

curlew · 14/08/2013 09:37

There is being so open minded, and there is being so open minded that your brains fall out.......

5madthings · 14/08/2013 09:37

on my bous with their wavy blonde hair, that i let grow longish it just gave them.the 'surfer dude' look and yrs they looked extremely cute.

saying it looks tacky you are just making a value judgement and sounding like a snob.

Seb101 · 14/08/2013 09:44

Curfew; wow, what a thoroughly unpleasant comment! ??

bruffin · 14/08/2013 09:45

Im not a snob, but I can make a value judgement on a parent who puts something that is considered dangerous on their baby just because it look cute
I dont know any baby that needs a necklace to look cute, mine certainly looked cute enough without any tacky necklaces.

5madthings · 14/08/2013 09:49

given its designed for babies/todllers and i was always with them and i didnt let them.sleep in it then i dont think.it was dangerous. and yes they looked cute anyway. the necklace was just sweet, it was a gift and we liked it.

curlew · 14/08/2013 09:55

"Curfew; wow, what a thoroughly unpleasant comment! ��"

Is it? Sorry. But I get really angry when people go on about being "open minded" about crap that's expensive, possibly dangerous, certainly useless and allows the unscrupulous to exploit the vulnerable.
There is absolutely no way that amber teething necklaces can work the way their proponents say they do. It's just scientifically impossible. (Yes, some things are). They may look cute (I have a sneaking liking for the surfer dude look and my own children had silver ankle bells that made me go weak at the knees they were so cute), they may have a transferred placebo effect (certainly a relaxed parent is better than a stressed one). But they do not and cannot work in any actual physical way.

Belmo · 14/08/2013 13:21

I have a Baltic amber necklace and bracelet I bought in Latvia pre kids. I can confirm when my wisdom teeth are playing up it makes fuck all difference.

CoteDAzur · 14/08/2013 16:44

Curfew was only paraphrasing Carl Sagan, who said "It pays to have an open mind but not so open that your minds fall out"

To the best of my knowledge, nobody thought it was unpleasant when he said it. Sounds like common sense to me, actually. As in, keep an open mind but also don't forget to check whether it sounds plausible or at least remotely possible. And if it's not, don't believe it in the name of keeping an open mind.

CommanderShepard · 14/08/2013 19:44

Belmo I was just about to ask that - people who use amber teething necklaces on their children: do you borrow them if you've got a headache/period pain/anything for which one might use paracetamol or ibuprofen?

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