How to feed when teething

[bubbabailey]

My little guy is bottle fed and is cutting his top tooth (through noe) but I think the second one is on its way, he usually sleeps through but had been waking anywhere from 4+ times a night
Today he has had his morning bottle and that is it! He is due for a bottle but won't take it! I am tired and exhausted (I have a 3yo too)
How did you get bub to take their bottle and is there anything else it could be?? He screams almost all day and isn't sleeping well through the day either....
Help!!

[Mama of 1]

My baby girls is also cutting her top teeth (all 4 of them) so I am feeling your pain with the night wakings and trouble eating!! We have a similar issue, she attempts to eat her bottles but on a bad day gets about 60/80 ml in and starts squirming to stop!! Have you tried giving it to him cold? From the fridge? My MCHN told me to give my daughter cold water, as it's cold on the gums and feels good, so I then started trying ice cold milk and she drinks almost every bottle now even on really bad days!!! I confirmed with her doctor that it was ok and he said its fine. Before I tried cold liquids I would let her chew on an iced face washer from the freezer before a feed and that also got her to drink more but not as much as a cold bottle! Other friends swear by Bonjela a few min before a feed but we are really trying not to medicate unless absolutely necessary. As for night wakings??????????? No idea!!!! Good luck������

[CupidsVictim]

My DD was exactly the same... I bought an amber seething necklace and have no had one single issue since.

She's 13 months now and she has 10 teeth now. I had to actually check to see because i find no symptoms since she has been wearing it.

She wore her necklace from 4 months old and hasn't taken it off since.

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[lulululu]

I agree that cold helps but was never too reluctant to give some panadol or nurofen if I knew bub had pain

[BaronessM]

We've had similar issues with less milk and solids going down while teething (my little one is cutting 7 teeth at once! Aaargh!). Cool milk helps a lot, squishy, custardy foods for solids (back to puree *sigh*), and getting the teething gel onto the gums/teeth a few mins before they start to feed helps. Also, accept that they will down their intake of food for a few days to a week, then get back to normal (and cycle through this pattern many times till teeth are through).

As PP says, panadol if they really are having a hard time of it and are in pain, but if just slow to feed and off their food a little, the tooth gel works very well.

[southcoastmummy]

My little guy is bottle fed and is cutting his top tooth (through noe) but I think the second one is on its way, he usually sleeps through but had been waking anywhere from 4+ times a night
Today he has had his morning bottle and that is it! He is due for a bottle but won't take it! I am tired and exhausted (I have a 3yo too)
How did you get bub to take their bottle and is there anything else it could be?? He screams almost all day and isn't sleeping well through the day either....
Help!!

*hugs* coming your way.

I can only tell you the things I did with my now 10 month old, they didn't even always work for me so they might or might not work for you.

He has an Amber necklace and I swear by it :)

I dip my finger in ice water and let him chew on it whilst he sits on my lap say at a resturant or infront of the tv.

don't wait for him to get unsettled. If DS is cutting a tooth and it's bedtime in 15 mins I get the panadole out now and dose him up.

I also put a matris on DS's floor and if worse came to worse just slept in there with him on the floor, some sleep on the floor is better than no sleep at all. Then at about 6am I literally called DH on his mobile from my mobile and he's get DS up whilst I slept for another hour or so.

Try different teethers, my son recently found a beaded necklace which he chews on like it's the best gum massager - who'd have thought?

Offer him a wet, cool, washer. Babies often like the texture on their gums and they will suck the water out of it for fluids. Just keep wetting it.

Try the milk in a sippy cup. One with a nice soft silicon nozel. DS likes to chew on his and although a lot of the liquid get's dribbled at least he's happy :)

Hope some of this helps, good luck:fingerscrossed: