2012年3月10日 星期六

The art of managing teething

Teething is always an exciting, painful and sleepless period of time.  The best way that my mommy has found to help me through this is by giving me a whole fruit to bite.  This helps relieve the pain and also stimulate my gums for other teeth about to come.  


Start with soft fruit, like pears.  They are very soft to bite, easy to digest and high in fiber.  You'll find that your little one will be sucking on the fruit just like I did.  This is better then giving juice.  All the nutrition of the fruit is actually in the fruit itself and not the juice.  The juice merely has natural sugars and are empty calories.  It is not a good idea to give juice while teething as it may decay the teeth even before they have fully emerged.  It is very important to those pearly whites in tip top shape as it is a crucial part when starting to talk.  


Once there are at least two teeth, apple can introduced.  Apples are a bit hard, hence the reason of only introducing it when there is teeth.  


Remember mommies, to stop pureeing the food too fine from now to encourage chewing ^_^ 


Mommy found that Vidol works wonders and plus it tastes good, like grapes.  It helped with the pain.



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