Hardcore teething

TS is in the process of growing top front teeth. Soon she will look like a beaver. Right now, she's got swollen purplish bumps with small white toothy areas that can be seen through the gums. Of course, she'll only let you look if you're holding her upside down. It's a difficult process for her. She's been very whiny and needy today according to her stay-at-home father. When I got home and took her temperature, it was running between 100 and 101. I gave her a serving of baby tylenol, which she promptly spit out. I remembered that you're supposed to syringe it into their cheek pouches, so I squirted another serving into her cheek, which she ejected even more forcefully. I tried one last time, while holding her and moving her around to distract her. She seemed to swallow most of it. Since all three of them were on the low end of the recommended dosage (about half of it), I'm pretty sure that I haven't OD'ed her on acetaminophen.

Tooth number two!

Tooth number one is poking out substantially now. And tooth number two is poking out as of today! There's just a little nublet of it poking out, but hopefully we're close to done with teething for a little while.

Today wasn't a great day as far as teething goes. TS was very cranky for a good chunk of the day. She also refused to be put into bed to nap, so I spent several hours with her strapped to my chest asleep in the carrier.

A definite tooth

The tooth is all the way through. She used it to "eat" a quarter of a banana. Much of the banana ended up mashed on the high chair or in the dog via the floor, but she did chew up quite a bit of it and I'm sure she swallowed some too. She seemed to enjoy it quite a bit, perhaps because it was an accommodating texture.

First Tooth! Now, to use it to eat with.

Sterling has been working hard on the teething project and I think one finally broke through today! When I poked at it with my fingernail this afternoon, I scraped something hard instead of just gum. I think she's done it!

In other news, she's now substantially mobile.

She's also started eating solids with a more pronounced vigor than previously displayed. We've been offering her foods for the past few weeks. Usually she'll pick them up and chew on them a bit, but the past couple of times she's really gone at them. I'm not sure if it's a difference in the foods offered. We had previously given her: asparagus, green bean, broccoli, carrot, and a few other things I've forgotten. On Sunday, I roasted up a bunch of sweet potatoes, carrots, and squash with a little olive oil and thyme. Maybe she just likes those veggies better than the previous ones. Regardless of the reason, she got really into eating dinner tonight and last night. I'd estimate that she swallowed at least a couple of teaspoons of food, which is way more than she's eaten before.

Teething, big-time

We're in the middle of teething. Sterling has been drooling like a fountain and I can feel lumps in the middle of her bottom gum. She also hasn't been sleeping very well. Since we got home, she's been on a schedule where she goes to bed around 8:00, then wakes up at 1:30am wanting a bottle. After eating, she wakes up again at 4:30 and then really never goes back to sleep. She's been waking up and crying, too, which is unusual. I'm guessing that one of the reasons that she's waking up so frequently is that her teeth are bothering her.

This afternoon, I could actually see the whitish outline of tiny teeth on her bottom gum. These two teeth have to show up in the next day or so. I just can't imagine them taking much longer. Hopefully the disposition of the TS will improve as well. She was a total crankypants today and then only took two little naps.

I think several things are combining to create her nasty disposition of today. She's teething, she's ready for another developmental leap, and I think she's also having her 6-month growth spurt. Poor Tiny Squee.