Growth Spurt or Teething??

[lil monkey]

Hi all,

Well Tayla is having a doozy of a month again, after starting solids at 6.5 months she stopped sleeping through the night and was waking up a few times so we had to use to dummy and she would go off to sleep.

Now the past week, the dummy doesn't work as she spits it out and cries and wants something to drink - this happens at 10pm and then again around 3am in the morning. Then she wakes up and during the day isn't keen on drinking too much but is eating more solids.

Do they have a growth spurt around 7.5 - 8 months? SHe still has no teeth so is this another sign? I give up?!?! :rolleyes:

[poshBecks]

If she's drooling heaps, chewing on everything, and refusing food/drink it's possibly teeth! DS was 7 mths when he got 1st tooth. I'm not sure about the growth spurt though, i can't remember :o .
Becky
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Connor, 18 mths
Bump, due in Dec

[lil monkey]

She's been drooling heaps and chewing on everything for months and still no teeth!!!

She is still eating all her food but not drinking all of her bottles.

[wattle]

Max seemed to go through a growth spurt a couple of weeks ago (8 months) and I thought it was teething. He has had a tooth pop through this week, but that was a different grumpiness to how he was a few weeks ago.

Have a big breath, be patient and hopefully she will spring back soon. :)

[talon]

i have been wondering about the teething thing myself. ds is still eating all of his food (he is 7 months now) but is not drinking all of his milk! Sometimes he might only drink half his bottle and then crack up when i try and get him to drink the rest. Been happening for the last few days now. Also he is sucking on his bottom lip a fair bit also. Am wondering if this is a teething thing or something else.

[JanetF]

Does it matter? If bubs pops out a tooth, you'll know it was teething, and if she grows, you'll know it was a growth spurt ;) My son had a lot of the wonderful Brauers teething relief when he was teething, but he also liked lots more booby in the night at that time or during growth spurts. Unless you're planning to treat your baby radically differently depending on which it is, maybe it doesn't matter? Let her have a little mystery ;) You'll know soon enough which it is, and in the meantime you can just provide emotional support and whatever works to help her feel ok. What a journey this parenting caper is! Good luck! *hugs*