Tell me about teething, cos dd is crying and my friend has just told me that teething doesn't hurt.

[AitchTwoOh]

she read it somewhere in a magazine.

but i'm sure dd goes off her food when cutting a tooth, so how can it be true?

or is it, as she was suggesting, just what we say when our children are crying and we can't be bothered workign out what's really wrong with them?

Hmmm, does your friend remember what teething felt like? Does anyone? Don't believe everything you read.

Teething certainly gave my dds a lot of discomfort.

or did they? apparently this article was saying that the whole loose bowels, bad nappy rash, sore ear thing was bolleaux and more likely caused by a tummy bug than teething. dd had all three, i should add, and i put them down to teething.

Your friend is clearly mental, god help her children, does she leave them screaming in pain cos a magazine says its not sore?

Of course teething is sore, has she never had a toothache?

Ignore her.

Which one "Total B*llocks"?
Has she got any wisdom teeth? Cos mine hurt like feck when they were coming through.

i'm pretty sure i remember reading about a doc who said similar things, though.

??????

Teething does not hurt???

Is she mad???

I think teeth bursting thier way through your gums would be most definately painfull.

has your friend had her wisdom teeth? imagine that but youre too little to tell anyone whats wrong or take the real drugs!

friend is barking

teething hurts

when your mouth hurts you salivate more
hence you swallow more saliva than usual
which can make nappies runny and bottoms sore.

There is some truth to the 'oh she must be teething' line though...

I think teething affects every child differently - my two who have teeth have never had any trouble, no calpol, no teetha - they were fine, but that doesn't mean it doens't hnurt otuehrs

So I wonder why children pretend it does then?

She is wrong

Parents have always been able to make the connection between teething, pain, nappy rash etc.

We are not all stupid, this makes me cross.

Aitch have you not read about, or even encountered, medical professionals who say labour doesn't hurt?!

It can be a bit easy to put every symptom down to teething and miss a tummy upset or ear infection, but that doesn't mean it doesn't hurt.

But I can happily say I never put any of DD's baby distress down to teething, I put it all down to being a grumpy baby. And then discovered she had teeth. She was four months old, they weren't scheduled to appear yet.

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Yes my mum says teething does not hurt because she "doesn't remember any of us having it"

As an adult who has been cutting several wisdom teeth for a number of years now, I can state it FUCKING hurts

have you tried those chamomile powder things? Seem bizarre but kind of worked sometimes for ds

also we occasionally used to use the anaesthetic gels just to diagnose whether it was in fact teething or something else. Like you say, sometimes you think you are going mad and that you are imagining the whole thing. Once you KNOW it is teething it is easier to deal with, I think

Teething does HURT. Like Franny I cut two wisdom teeth for years, only to have them whipped out as soon as they were through and I was in AGONY. And dd goes off her food, has nappy rash and a funny tummy. And she cries a lot. If the teething granules don't cut it, a spoonful of Calpol normally does the trick for us.

I've also read that there's no proven link between teething and nappy rash etc. Certainly ds's first two teeth came through with no symptoms other than pain (definitely pain and lots of it going by the poor we mite's behaviour and at 12wks he was too small to even chew on his hands for relief ).

He's got the next two coming now and they seem to be causing less bother, perhaps because he's older now and able to chew on things, but he's got a sore bottom for really the first time since he was born and could fill an olympic size pool with the drool - feels like a connection to me.

see when dd is teething she gets terrible nappy rash, absolutely awful, but she's clean as a whistle otherwise. but it's one of those things that there's no actual evidence for. that's why i started the thread, really, to see if anyone knew anything concrete about teething. is comeoveneer around? that famous french polisher/dentist...?

Son had his first febrile convulsion cutting a tooth. He went to hospital for a day and the tested him for all sorts of infection but they couldn't find anything. His face would also be covered in a rash when he was teething.
Daughter would cut 4 teeth at a time and we didn't know until they came through.

What a pile of poo! Teething hurts like crap - I remember my wisdom teeth coming through. DD has eight teeth at seven months and six of them came through in one very painful day. She was frantic with pain the poor thing. Offer to pull out one of your friend's teeth so she can find out whether having a piece of enamel passing through a piece of soft gum tissue hurts!

I have been told that by the time molars come through that babies are 'used to the pain' and just get on with it

This from the 'human food' HV though so it's probably bollocks!

your friend is an idiot

of course teething hurts

she is talking bollocks.

Silly woman. (Your friend that is.)

My Mum always knew when I had a tooth coming through because I would get cold. This happened with every tooth, even my wisdom teeth, so teething can cause all sorts of different problems IMO.

lol whomovedmychocolate - you'll never ever trust anything yor HV says again

My HV says teething might change the Ph of saliva therefore causing upset tummy/sore bottom

Without a doubt my dd has teething pain. Gurning, dribbling, irritable, poking her gums with her finger and then day or two later a tooth breaks through and she is fine. God some journalists do write alot of crap.