Well, we've used homeopathy. Started with the Hyland's teething tablets and they are almost always great, but I'm a bit of a purist when it comes to homeopathy and like to find the *single* remedy. So I was working on a little homeopathy shelf with the single remedies included in the Hyland's (I just saw the Boiron multiple remedy teething stuff called "Camilia" and it has similar ingredients as Hyland's), so I could best match remedy to symptom "package".
Other than that we use old-fashioned comfort...milk, frozen milk, cold teethers, *distraction*, and so on. Because we never used western medicine pain relievers, we found that a huge teething fit could end like
that, and if we'd given motrin or something, the fit would have been done but baby would still have been drugged, for lack of a better, less *ooh she's saying awful things about motrin*, word.
The number of times we saw a teething fit end in the blink of an eye kept our resolve up to use old-fashioned comfort and homeopathy, and we ended up never needing to use motrin etc. WE would have liked to take something, and the end of a teething fit often found me with a microbrew in hand
, but he got through it fine. Whew!
So that's what we did.
(I keep forgetting about those second molars that will come through someday; keep pretending like he's DONE, then I remember and reality smacks me in the face!)
