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Teething vs gas?

Whew it's been a while!  Sorry guys, super unmotivated week going on haha!  We even ordered pizza 2 days ago because we have no energy.

Maverick has been a little fussier lately and at first I thought it was teething.  It started Sunday, he cried all night and I really struggled to sleep longer than 20 minutes with him.


So I thought "teething" and not "gas" because I hadn't eaten anything out of the usual; I haven't had to adapt my diet too much at all for breast feeding, actually.  I just try not to eat buckets of broccoli but that's about it... onions are like a daily thing for me and he's never had an issue... so anyway, he was super grouchy and he's been excessively drooling (like soaking through a bib in an hour sometimes), and he's been putting everything in his mouth and chewing on his hands/my finger and applying tons of pressure.  Also, Sunday night I noticed he was abnormally not hungry and kept refusing the boob.  All signs of teething.  Sometimes he'd grab at his face too, but no cheek redness which is a common symptom.  Plus I could see his little bottom canine tooth almost poking through his gums.  I know it's a little early for teething, and especially for canines, but I did google it and he wouldn't be the first 3 month old baby with an emerged canine tooth.

Anyway, so I said teething and Steven and I gave him some infant tylenol.  It helped calm him a little bit but not really.  So Monday continued to be a stormy day, and Tuesday he was back to his happy self.  Last night he was grouchy again and he was chewing on my finger, wouldn't eat, and screaming Hail Mary so we gave him some a little infant tylenol.  It seemed to help again, for about 40 minutes.  Thankfully it wasn't as bad as Sunday and we ended up getting some sleep.

Today he's pretty much back to normal.  He's been eating like usual and everything seems good.  Since a tooth hasn't completely emerged yet, I'm not sold he's teething anymore and now I'm thinking it might just be gas.  Whatever it is, hopefully it doesn't keep up or we'll be going to see our doctor.

And I just have to add:



When you're a mom, everything they do is adorable.  Even sneezing lol...

Xoxo
Monika

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