Normal teething or should I be worried?
schmoodle
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Boodle has been sleeping worse and worse every night this week. Up for 2+ hours crying, waking more each night (7 times last night, and several of them took over an hour to get her back asleep). Tonight she fell asleep early (at 7:30), woke up 20 minutes later and screamed hysterically for about an hour, including when I tried picking her up/rocking her, until she finally just fell back asleep but only after losing her voice from crying so hard. At one point I had to just leave her to cry for a couple minutes because my back hurt so badly from bending over to rub her face/back in the crib and hold her paci in (she wasn't any better when I picked her up so I didn't do so again), even though I am not at all a fan of CIO (admittedly this wasn't CIO since it was just a few minutes so I could get a minute of relief and not get too frustrated).
She also has a very runny/stuffy nose, but no fever.
Toodle never teethed like this so I'm not familiar with it, but she definitely has a tooth coming in. However, she has a tooth that's completely in already and it never affected her this way. Should I assume this is teething, or something worse? I keep seeing people on FB mention their babies having RSV and it's freaking me out. Until this week, she has STTN most nights since about 3 weeks old and even when she woke, would go back to sleep almost immediately if I gave her a paci and jiggled her butt for a minute. I'm fine if she doesn't STTN anymore but I just worry that there is something really wrong if she is screaming like this (and this is AFTER she has had tylenol, and she had motrin last night which didn't really help).
Of course it doesn't help that I've had about 3 hours of sleep each night this week, had to get up at 4 am the one day she slept late because I took my sister to the airport, and have a terrible sinus infection and double eye infection.
Re: Normal teething or should I be worried?
Poor boodle & poor mama, too. It sounds like a combination of teeth & not feeling well to me. Motrin always worked much better for us, but I think that varies from baby to baby. My only other thought is her ears - teeth & congestion seem like the perfect setup for an infection
Hope you all get some rest & feel better soon. We all have a cold here too & I am totally nervous about rsv. Also had an eye infection last month & it was the most sucky thing I've been through in awhile.
My money is on an ear infection. Snotty noses are almost always ear infections at my house...
I'd give her some Motrin and try to get her into the pedi when you can to get her ears checked.
I agree with Dana.
I hope sweet Boodle starts feeling better soon and I hope you can get a decent amount of sleep!
Aw, hon, I'm so sorry for both of you!
I totally agree with the others. In our house hysterical screaming like you described is almost always teeth plus ear infection.
Fwiw, nothing you wrote says RSV to me. When D had it he was pathetic and (the main symptom was) wheezy - but not in "pain." I wouldn't worry about RSV unless she struggles to breathe... But I would still make a trip to the pedi.
Hamg in there mama, hope it gets better soon!!!
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