12 month old teething and not eating

[lightgreenglass]

Help!

What do I do? Should I give him more milk? Normally he has a good appetite but he won't let anything in his mouth apart from his bottle and a spoon of yoghurt.

Anyone else had this?

Plus he's a right misery guts. Please tell me my fun loving boy will return. I'm on the edge with all the whining and tears!

[Picklesauage]

I can entirely sympathise. My DD struggled with every single tooth. The things that helped, especially with eating, were:

• nurofen 30mins before eating, it works better than calpol for teeth pain.
• either soft soft food, stew, porridge, mash, shreds pie.
• or cold stuff, frozen cube or sticks of stewed apple, puréed strawberry etc. frozen frubes were great, yoghurt and great for reaching those back teeth.
• she liked to chew toast sticks at the end of meals too.

For your sanity:

• each tooth is one tooth closer to the end of teething, it does end!
• remember how awful tooth pain is, it helped me to understand her unreasonable, annoying behaviour.

Good luck!

[sososotired]

Calpol works wonders!!
My DS also 12 months does this we have 4 teeth coming out all at once at the moment so I have the same problem!!! HV said not to worry give him milk if he wants it! I found that DS likes peas/sweetcorn at the moment cold from the fridge and fruit pots I guess it relieves some pain on his gums!
Boots do teething buiscuits which are a good thing to have a good old chew on (assuming your in the uk )