Toddler back molars coming? HELP!!

[Givemecaffeine21]

My DD is 2.2 and her back molars are coming - one is partially through.

Over the last few weeks she has turned into a horrible monster. Are molars a likely cause or just her being a toddler? Everything is met with a tantrum and a typical example will be:

D: need a wee
Me - puts DD on loo
D: don't want to, don't want to, don't need a wee
Me: Get her up and pull her trousers on
D: I need a wee! I want to! (Cry, wail, scream)

This applies to getting dressed (wants to do it then asks me to then goes ballistic when I do) at the start of the day and continues throughout over everything - shoes on, coats on, carrying things, helping - she wants to and screams / cries if she can't or if it's something I need her to do, she'll refuse and kick off about that.

I'm absolutely sick of her right now, as awful as that sounds, as also have 15 month old DS and cannot keep the two happy. Nothing I do is good enough. I made her play dough today, then after a few minutes she wanted to wash her hands (just as started to cook dinner) and went ballistic again. I finally lost it and stuck her in her bedroom for a few minutes, my blood pressure was through the roof, all the while DS is lobbing things around the room and squawking.

Help me before they commit me!

Can only suggest... try nurofen or calpol and if it helps it's probably molars. (And if it helps then keep giving it!)

Good luck!

Noted. It's hard at this age because she isn't able to say if something hurts; I don't think it occurs to them, they just deal with it (or not!). Right, I shall calpol her tomorrow and pray for improvement.

If it doesn't work I shall just glue the calpol myself for the throbbing headache I will have by lunchtime

*glug....glueing it to myself may be less effective!

Good luck! hope it works, at least then you have a cause and a temporary solution. If calpol doesn't help it's worth trying nurofen, I've always found it more effective for teeth.

If neither works.... um.... this too shall pass...

.....that is my mantra!

Amazingly she's been angelic (for a toddler) today....good job as I was about to put her on Ebay

My DD is the same at the moment, same age too. I've noticed (during a round of screaming) that she's got her back molars coming through.

Although you have my sympathies, I found your post comforting. I thought just turned two DD had turned into the drama llama I always feared but this could be teething related? And therefore temporary? Hallelujah.

She was good til about 2pm then the whinge fest / cry fest started again. There is a lot of fake crying coming from her right now. It's the most infuriating noise. In her defence, she's blatantly unwell as her cheeks are flushed and she has a hacking cough, so I've been extra nice about it ...

My DS is the same, 2.3, one molar through, three cutting now!
Neurofen and anbesol are helping.
I am 26 wks pregnant and finding him hardwork at the moment. Today he got in a strop because we walked the wrong way round the table!

noitsachicken you mean you broke the sacred law of the correct way of walking around a table?

She's not improved that much - the day started with a tantrum because I took her nappy off (which SHE wanted to do apparently) and then because I wiped her with a baby wipe....again, she wanted to do it...the same way she wants to chop vegetables and drive the car....yes, we've had tantrums over those

At 7am being screamed at wasn't the way I wanted to start my day thank you so she had some reflection time whilst I got dressed (read I stomped off inelegantly in my pyjamas before I yelled back at her)