Teething???

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Advice please

My little one has just turned 9 months and still has no teeth. She has been sleeping through the night for the last couple of months, all of a sudden the last few nights she has been waking 2/3 times and screaming for a long time before I can calm her down. I have never heard her cry like this. When I looked in her mouth there is no sign of any bottom teeth but you can clearly see 3 top teeth in the gum (two front teeth and a thang) but they are not cutting through the gum, she's not dribbling loads and the gums don't look swollen. She does keep hitting her face/mouth.

Could this be teething? There is no other obvious reason for her to be waking up so upset

Thanks! X

Literally been going through this with my lo.
He has sprouted his two bottles
Teeth but I think it's a regression. Have you tried calpol? We did and it made no difference which made me think it was a regression rather than teething.

@iloveyankeecandle yeah I have tried calpol and nurofen but none of them are making a difference. She goes down at 7pm, and it's like clockwork when she's waking, 8:30pm, 11pm, 2-3am then sometimes again at 5am. I've just gone back to work so it's draining.

I tried to leave her to cry it out last night but she was just getting more worked up, and then if it is her teeth I feel so guilty but I don't know what to do or how to help her

Could be separation anxiety too? Also when they're routine changes like starting nursery etc then that can have an affect on the sleep.

My DD is 10 months and has 9 teeth, and whilst all babies are obviously different, she’s never woken up screaming when she’s had teething pain (she’s unsettled and sometimes prone to night wake-ups, but never actually screaming, and drugs usually do the trick). If nurofen isn’t helping then that suggests there is something else going on. Could be separation anxiety like the PP suggested, in which case definitely don’t leave her to cry or it’ll get worse. My DD went through a phase of appearing scared of the cot at bedtime at that age, which I think was separation anxiety - she would cry when first put in it. I stayed with her until she fell asleep during that period - lasted about a week.

@canyoutoleratethis thank you! She has been very very clingy today, screaming and crying unless she's on my hip or unless I'm right next to her. So it could definitely be separation anxiety.

Put her to bed at 7pm tonight, as soon as she's put in the cot she screams so bad but as soon as I pick her up she falls asleep instantly on me. As soon as I put her down she screams. So I stayed with her while she was in the cot and she screamed for 45 minutes, I think me being there but not holding her was making her even worse. I sat outside her bedroom door and then she settled after 10 minutes and fell asleep.

We will see how the night goes

It's so horrible when you don't know what's causing it but thank you!

Sending huge hugs in solidarity - it sounds really tough, but you’re absolutely doing everything you can to help her, it’s just fucking hard (why the hell don’t these little people come with a manual!!)

Hoping tonight isn’t too horrendous!

I think you should speak to a dentist.