Teething.

There is just no other way to put it...teething sucks! My little one is working on getting more teeth (he has 7 already). It just makes him feel so uncomfortable! He usually sleeps really great all night, however, when teething he wants to nurse all night. This isn't so bad since we co-sleep, except for the fact that when he is teething his latch changes. Normally he has a great latch that is very comfortable, but while he feels so bad it is more shallow and the teeth he already has kinda scrape while he nurses. So not only does teething make the little man feel badly, it makes mama feel badly as well. No one gets the "normal" amount of sleep, the little man doesn't get as much play time in because he just wants mama to hold him, and I end up getting behind on just about everything. Like I said...teething sucks! Hopefully, the new teeth emerge soon so we can all go back to our regular rhythms.

What do you use to ease the pain of your little ones when they are teething? Our solutions tend to be: a lot of nursing, frozen wash cloths, Sophie, wooden teethers, whatever he finds to chew on (that is safe), hylands teething tablets, Motrin. He usually always has his amber necklace on which seems to keep the use of the tablets and/or Motrin to a minuem.

As for me I add a little extra coconut oil to the milk jugs (aka boobs) to keep them healed and help them feeling better while the little mans latch is different.