He is 3 months old and has started gnawing on his hands. It’s too early! We just finished 6 months ago with our last child. Here we go again!
Teeth.
Their appearance is inevitable. Necessary, yet often a dreaded part of the journey. Some babies are not affected at all by teething but, for others, it can be a very painful process that leads to a cranky household. My first son was the former. He would nap for a solid 2-3 hours, something that was otherwise unheard of with him, and wake up with a tooth. My second was up all night for weeks and crying and fussing and often had an elevated temperature so we had to pull out all the stops to help him out.
We chose to stick with alternatives to conventional medications for our children so I did some research and experimentation and found some natural teething remedies that worked.
Read the rest of this guest post at Thinking Outside the Sandbox Family about 7 Natural Teething Remedies.