7 Months and TEETHING...

Noah past his 7 month birthday last week and the poor baby didnt have a great celebration - and neither did we! For the first time - he was sick ....very sick :0(
He spent the day throwing up all over himself and pooping all over everything else - yes, we lost a few good PJ's but they will be well remembered.
We took him to the Dr. and we just had to give him lots of pedialyte and let it run its course - so it did and he got over it. And as a 'thank you' to Mommy for taking care of him during his worst of times so far, he gave me whatever he had and it was my turn! Not Fun!
BUT - we are all healthy, happy, and vomit free again so life is good.
That is, until Noah started cutting his other bottom tooth. Who knew that a tiny little tooth could make a baby's head spin all the way around and start speaking in tongues?? The poor thing has had such a hard time with this one - and we have tried everything to help soothe him, frozen waffles, frozen teethers, cool wet rags, warm wet rags, baby oragel (I will never again use this, I think it made his whole mouth numb and he completely freaked out! This was when I thought his head was about to spin!), tylenol, motrin, humphryes drops AND tablets, and Im sure Im forgetting some other magical teething treatment that others have told me to try. In short, none of it worked all that well - the teething tablets I have to say were the most effective...but the real secret is just to ride it out. For us anyway. It only lasted a little more than a week and then POOF!! there is a tiny little tooth top poking out and we are back to sleeping through the night. WHEW! And just in time too - I wasnt sure how long I could endure that shrieking cry of pain - it was heartbreaking....and I have to admit a tad irrating at 3 am.
But like I said we are all better now - until the next tooth decides to pop out!
I feel like there should be a sash for Motherhood. You know, like the one we used to get in the Girl Scouts. We could get little patches that we would have to iron on after we conquer the little (and not so little!) challenges of parenting. There would be a HUGE one for labor - and then one for functioning with no sleep - a little green cloud for baby gas - a little iron-on tooth with a big smiley face on it for getting through teething - the list is endless. Come to think of it, I dont think a little sash would be big enough to hold all the patches! But I would proudly wear mine everywhere! hehe