teething and nursing strike?

[blackcurrants]

Okay maybe not really a nursing strike (DS fed all. damn. night) but my 4 month old is teething and screaming and ever since 5am hasn't fed (and has screamed more and arched his back when I offered). It's coming up to 9am now and lovely DH has taken him out for walk in the carrier to give me a chance to nap (no sleep longer than 40min stretches last night), but I'm worried about him not having eaten and feel oddly rejected (I know! Bonkers) by his refusal to nurse...

Earlier symptoms of his teething were to feed all the time (as well as drooling, biting on things, grabbing ears, being miserable) but now he won't feed. Argh! I'm worried AND I want to feed him to sleep so we all get a breather from the screams. Is it normal for teething babies to refuse to breastfeed?

The ones that are coming through/moving are his lower canines. He's got biig lumps there, the poor love. And putting Orajel (bonjela in US) on them makes him scream so much...

Okay, ignore me. Just came in after a walk and an hour's sleep - and scoffed for ages.

You'd think that I would have calmed down about all this by 4 months, wouldn't you? But sometimes stuff like this just throws you for a loop. I'll be over here being embarrassed for panicking

Hmm. He is still arching his back and pulling off and screaming if I don't feed him in a darkened room, lying down. . .

Ah well. Good job I'm feeling REALLY lazy and DH has tomorrow off :)

Hi, sorry just wondered when your DS started to teeth?

My little girl is 11 weeks and i think she may have started as....

She had started to really dribble (drool almost)last week lasted about two days, was also getting very upset (usually quite content baby), and moving her head side to side trying to knaw on her hands quite frustrated. This stopped for about 7-10 days and she started doing same thing again yesterday. I can see a couple of little white bumps in her mouth. Do you think she could be teething already?

I gave her a little 2.5ml spoon of calpol before she went to sleep and BF (think this was quite comforting for her too) she was ok after about an hour.

Pleeease help, really horrible to see her this upset :-(

Thanks, xx

Yep, definitely possible, my dd started at 7 weeks!

Currently lay on bed with her holding a wet frozen flannel for her to gnaw on

We also use calpol, teetha powders, dentinox and a razberry teething dummy as at 13 weeks she is still too small to get conventional teething toys in her mouth! I bf and have had bites - ouch, poor thong must be in agony though x

Thing!

I think the sucking needed to breastfeed can be too painful for them at times, I have been giving my 4 month old some calpol 15 mins before feeding to see if it helps and it seems to. I am also going to express a bit to offer in a bottle as think it may be easier for her to suck.
I have also found that its worse some days than others, and just try and offer a boob whenever I think she may have a go!

I agree, you can always try and soothe to sleep and then offer the feed once she is dozy, I find this almost aalways works with my dd

awww thank you so much for advive. will have a look at the teething dummies teetha powders too. x