calpol and teething

[Jes1989]

our little one is 7 months old and is starting to get her second tooth. she is my first child so am doing the normal mum worry of am i giving her too much calpol to sleep through the night. when i put her down to sleep i dont stay with her and leave the room as i am worried she is relying on my comfort. I dont give her the calpol at the start of the night, i only do it when she not settling and doing her pain cry. when she is doing this i can tell she is annoyed being awake and wants to get to sleep. we do stick to her night time rountine. just worried she get use to having calpol to get to sleep, or once the pain has stopped she stop waking up. anyone else come across this. we have also had issues with her drinking her milk and her appetite for her food

Hang on a minute? You are medicating your baby because you’re worried she might be relying on you for comfort? She’s still really little, it’s totally ok for her to want you to be close while she goes to sleep. I have nothing against medicating for teething, though I find nurofen to be better for teething discomfort more generally, but I’m not sure you should be confusing the pain and the unwillingness to settle alone

Food and milk intake is often affected by teeth.

I wouldn't worry too much about cuddling and rocking if your little one is in pain, they need it and once she's feeling normal again I'm sure she'll drop back into her normal routine. In fact I think it would be mean to not give her extra comfort if she needs it.

As long as you aren't giving more than the dose on the box within 24 hours then you're not giving too much.

The appetite and milk will change when teeth are coming in. Have you tried other forms of relief for teeth like Nelson's teething granules, or ambesol?

Regarding worries about her relying on you for comfort, with teething she will do that. You just ride if out for the week or so and then slowly get back into the routine of you popping her down and then going out of the room. It may take some baby steps along the way, and a little crying, but once she is over the teething pain you can do that knowing it's not the pain getting to her.

If DD seems to be in pain, and I suspect teeth are on the way then I give calpol. Same as I would take pain killers if I had toothache.

However this can be any time of day. Her teeth don't only grow at night, so if she is only getting upset at night then teething may not be the cause. If she's in pain before going to bed, medicated her then. If the crying only starts once you leave her alone, she probably wants a cuddle, go comfort your baby.

When mine are teething, I use calpol, neurofen and teething gels for a few days at a time - that's what it's there for!

A few days to get them over the worst of it won't hurt.

I seems I didnt describe what I meant well here. I am not saying I dont comfort my baby. What I was trying to say is I do the bed time rountine and she goes down asleep so I leave straight away. But the last few nights this has lasted for 40 mins or so and she screams out. So of course she has her mummy cuddles and this will carry on like this throughout the night so I only been getting naps. The other night even after calpol the only way I could get her to sleep is on my chest so stayed up all night. During the day she has bonjela teething toys etc but is irrabtle. What I meant by her relying on me is I am encouraging self soothing to sleep she goes down semi asleep and she does the rest. Please dont anyone think I let her do that crying it out thing as I dont believe in it. If she cries I am there like a shot

I’m sorry - my first comment was curt. With ours, when it was a teething thing and they woke shortly after sleeping then we did medicate them and usually it helped. I did find nurofen much much better for teeth though. Most of the time we had a ‘rule’ of first wake up then try to get them back off, if not working or second wake up then medicine

Apologies I must have misinterpreted.

If you're resorting to slaying up all night, would you consider co-sleeping. Even just on bad nights. Setting up a safe sleeping environment for you both would be far better than accidentally falling asleep with her on you.

I also found anbesol liquid worked well, on top of the calpol if needed. It numbs the gums for about 15 minutes, so they have a pain free window to get to sleep.

Nws everyone. Did co sleeping once in her room. This was when she first went in there. Wasnt great as the rooms aren't big so was on the floor in a small space. All I can say I'm defiantly not in my twenties anymore lol. The back pain afterwards !!! Any way I do try twice to get her back off before doing the meds. Just wondered if she get use to having it to get off to sleep or once the teething has stopped she just go back to sleeping like she did.