Dr Ethan and Mr Poopy Pants; Is Cutting Teeth Making Your Baby Mad?
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 9:01PM 
Our baby is always so sweet and friendly-hardly anything gets him down. He's a great sleeper and a voracious eater, as mentioned in a previous blog. All of this is true until he begins to cut his teeth. His whole demeanor changes from happy go lucky to go f%^k yourself. Now, I didn't mean to be ugly just then but last night I woke up with his feet in my face (because he refused to sleep in his bed, another symptom of his chompers). He has been dealing with this since he was three months old, but he only just got his first teeth two weeks ago! All the pain and none of the glory I guess. Well, he had finally gotten over that bout, back to sleeping, eating, and in a good mood when the one on the top decide to make it's move. There is no planning for this-one day everything is great and the next he's eating the coffee table. Now, the coffee table is old but it's kind of disconcerting watching your child eating furniture. We have tried Tylenol, Motrin, homeopathic teething tablets (these actually do seem to work), day and night time Orajel, teething rings (frozen, refrigerated, and room temp), washcloths, our keys (not by our choice), cat toys (ditto), his toys, paper, teething biscuits, books, frozen waffles, Popsicles, all of the remotes, his thumb, and OF COURSE his multitude of pacifiers!
Do we really need teeth? Plenty of babies, mountain folk, and Shoney's waitresses seem to get along just fine without them. I mean, there are lots of things that you can gum and get along just fine (everything can be blended people! You can cook and crush all 500+ recipes from the Joy of Cooking and not fret that you might loose the flavor of your aspic). You go through teething and for what? Years of going to the dentist, which I would like to remind is also painful. I'm just asking you to think about it people! Teeth are not your friends!! Unless they're attractive. Then they make you look good and that's all that counts (sorry mountain folk!).
Reader Comments (1)
Great Blog, some very true statements in there. I look forward to reading more in the months to come and learn as we venture into our parenthood.