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Help! My little girl of 6 months is teething (rosy cheeks, drooling, sore gums), just finishing a growth spurt so she's really hungry, but doesn't want to eat because of sore gums. She is really over tired all the time as she isn't sleeping well, so is cranky too.

I am going mad from tiredness and don't feel like I'm making the right decisions day to day, like when she should nap/ when to cuddle at night/ what food to prepare. And the fact I'm crumbling makes it harder to steer us back on course.

Will this pass on its own, or should I beg/ steel/ borrow people to help??

Mind must be addled, didn't put a title on the post. How about 'help my baby stole my brain?!.'

Always get help, in any way/shape/form it presents itself! It takes a village to raise a child etc etc etc.

Good luck! :)

If it helps, my DD is doing it now but 6 months further on. Teeth are a new thing here!

My strategy has always been to sod the routine. Go with instincts.

If you had sore gums and were in pain, you'd also want cuddles and I doubt you'd be happy being fobbed off with having to stick with someone's routine.
If she only wants milk, I'd give her milk. You probably wouldn't want a big, crunchy dinner after a torture session at the dentist. She'll want food again soon enough.

Cuddle her if she needs it. Co-sleep if it helps you both. I do this with DD and as soon as she feels better, she goes back to her cot, no complaints. You're not making a rod for your own back, honest.

And be kind to yourself. Teething is tough on everyone!

Bread lollies. We swore by them when DD was teething and on solids - cut up some bread (proper bread, not sliced stuff as that just goes gluey) and put some sticks in the freezer, then give them to her straight out of the freezer - something to chew on that is soothing AND food at the same time. We found that dipping them in vegetable soup was good too. You can also give her some Calpol for the pain and you might find that she relaxes enough to stick with her usual naps.

Cucumber is great too.

I always feel for babies when they are teething i have all my wisdom teeth and remember with each one thinking how crap it must be for babies at least i know what was happening and could take lots of pain killers for it.

I'll prob get shot for this but you could try pureeing (not mashing) some food and chilling it in the fridge so it's nice and cool on her gums i lived on cold food when those bloody teeth came through and i was 20 odds!

Wow, only just checked back on here (sorry for not being back on thread sooner!), wasn't expecting so many replies. Thank you for your support. It has brightened my morning.

DD remains a pickle. Actually had a bit more of a normal night last night, though night before had been every hour. Drained 16 oz of milk over the course of the night!! Teething seems to have subsided - though no teeth yet, and eczema has gone down a bit (or had done).

Eczema was amazing first thing this morning and is getting progressively worse though the day. What on earth is it in my house that is aggravating the poor little mite!?!?!

Thanks again .

You might not want to know this, but DD was teething from 3 months and only got her first ones less than 2 weeks ago. She's 1. Christ it's a long road!

I found that an icecube wrapped in a muslin was helpful for her to suck. As were the cold cucumber sticks. The Nuby teething rings you can buy in Boots were brilliant. The one that looks like a lot of bugs joined together was the best for us.

No clue about eczema, sorry.

Is she on formula? Have you started introducing dairy? These are possible ezcema causes (certainly in my DS)

I'd try and get a routine going as I found the older DS got, the more he needed set naps and after a while once we'd got there it became easier. So depending on when she wakes, go for a nap 1.5-2 hours after waking then next nap 2.5-3 hours after waking from first nap then a cat nap about 3 hours before bedtime. Something like:
Wake at 7am, nap at half 8/9, nap at 12/1, nap at 3.30/4 ish. Doesn't matter how you get her napping or if they're s bit short but it gives a bit of structure.