Lately, DS has really great nights and really terrible nights. We went out last night with friends and DS woke up at 10. The babysitter couldn't calm him down and he was flipping his shit when we got home at 10:30. I nursed him and got him to calm down enough to go back to sleep, but I could tell he was still unsettled. He was then up at 1, 3, and 6. Not sure what time he woke for the day.
H said that DS wouldn't let him hold him at 1, but he did go back to sleep. I nursed him at 3 and he seemed ok, but still off.
I feel like we just give him motrin or tylenol in these situations because we don't know what else to do. Is that an ok approach? He's definitely teething, FWIW. I don't want to over medicate him, but I also don't want him to be uncomfortable/in pain.
Lately, DS has really great nights and really terrible nights. We went out last night with friends and DS woke up at 10. The babysitter couldn't calm him down and he was flipping his shit when we got home at 10:30. I nursed him and got him to calm down enough to go back to sleep, but I could tell he was still unsettled. He was then up at 1, 3, and 6. Not sure what time he woke for the day.
H said that DS wouldn't let him hold him at 1, but he did go back to sleep. I nursed him at 3 and he seemed ok, but still off.
I feel like we just give him motrin or tylenol in these situations because we don't know what else to do. Is that an ok approach? He's definitely teething, FWIW. I don't want to over medicate him, but I also don't want him to be uncomfortable/in pain.
Yes, this is what I do. Ibu (motrin/advil whatever) usually helps here...
I ask here first and then dose, ha. Last night I gave her Tylenol because she seemed uncomfortable after her 2 mo. shots (but of course I'm only making an educated guess at what was wrong).
We do the same as @vicmo said. We give DS Motrin during the bedtime routine of he's acting like the incoming teeth are bugging him (which they always are).
Related: when do you give Tylenol vs Motrin? We have both and E is 6 months.
like others, we pretty much always do Motrin unless we're alternating for a fever. That's mostly because DH and I think ibuprofen works better in general.
Longer answer, if the girls start sleeping like shit and I think they are teething then I dose them. They are painfully slow teethers and still working on canines. So I just assume that's it and give ibuprofen. I did the same as babies with all 3 .
How many consecutive days are you guys comfortable giving pain meds?
Because DS has been working on his first molars for a few weeks now. As soon as one breaks through, it seems like another is right behind it where I can feel it under his gums. They seem to take forever to get all the way out. I thought we were done for awhile because he seemed okay for the past few days, but now I see a canine right under his gum. He was not a happy camper last night, so back on the Motrin tonight.
felicity, AJ got canines and first year molars back to back so I'm pretty sure we ibuprofened him up nightly for at least two months. That was over a year ago and so far he's fine That's the longest stretch we've gone with nightly pain meds.
Yes, always. If we're having a string of bad nights, I'll give him Motrin before bed. If he's randomly inconsolable during the night (or any time, really), I'll give Motrin. I assume teeth are the culprit, but it could be a head ache, or some other pain that he can't tell me about.
I realize it sounds like I'm totally drugging up my kid. It doesn't actually happen often at all, but if I suspect he may be in pain, I don't hesitate to dose him up.