A friend of mine recently asked me about how teething went with Ace, since her daughter is starting to cut teeth now. She was telling me about how miserable her daughter is, but I wasn’t really able to sympathize.
We never had any fussiness, uncontrollable drooling or other teething related issues to speak of. It may have been the new mom gods having pity on me knowing I couldn’t take much more since I was already exclusively pumping around the clock.
But in actuality it was probably because very early on, we put a healing amber necklace on Ace.I had several friends before me use them for their children. At first, I thought they were just a hip fashion trend that I wasn’t hip to. It wouldn’t have been the first time. But after actually asking, everyone swore by them as their teething sidekick. So I was in.
I ordered ours from Amazon, but I have since seen them at national baby stores and local baby shops too.
Basically, it looks like a small string of stones with a screw clasp. I’m not sure if they come in different sizes, but the ones I’d seen on my friends kids looked like chokers. Ace’s may as well have been a Mr. T chain. It didn’t matter though, since he wore it tucked under his clothes. We took it off as part of the bedtime routine and put it back on as part of the morning routine. We were worried at first that he might be distracted by it and pull it and hurt himself, but he ended up pretty much ignoring it. It came untucked from time to time, but we simply hid it away again and went on with life.
The biggest reason I love the necklace is because it prevented me from having to give Ace any sort of medicine for his symptoms. I’m always looking for the most natural remedy possible and the necklace fit the bill.
So while we haven’t needed ours for a long time, I’ll definitely be pulling it back out for Bea when the time comes. But just in case I’m not so lucky this time around, tell me in the comments what you do to ease teething symptoms.