Just before our little man turned 8 months old, his first tooth popped through. We were so excited to see the tiny white speck poke through his gums until a couple of days later he entered full blown teething for a couple of weeks until both of his 2 bottom teeth were through.

We had screaming for at least a week and a half. He was really clingy and upset during the day and screamed most of the night. He stopped taking his dummy (to never start again), wouldn’t latch to breastfeed, didn’t want solids and was waking up every 2 hours at night (only going to sleep by being held and walked around the house). We tried everything (nurofen, panadol, teething rings/toys, gels, dissolving tablets)  but nothing would help. After a week of this and when he had a whole morning with no food or drink I took him to the doctors to make sure nothing else was wrong with him. We saw an awesome doctor who checked him from head to toe and said he was fine.

It was such a relief when both of the teeth finally came through and he was much happier.  It took a whole month until he started sleeping through the night again but we think this must have been attributed to the leap in development he was going through as well. Luckily after the teeth were through, I was able to just breastfeed him straight back to sleep instead of battling with him to get him back to sleep without boob. One night we were out driving the streets at 1:30 am to get him to fall asleep as he had been awake all night screaming.