Last night Baby Hailey just couldn’t sleep!  Jamie and I went up to peak in on her and she was still churning around at about 9:30.  Usually she’s out by then.  We got her up and changed her diaper then I tried to rock her back to sleep.  That didn’t last long as she started screaming again in agony!!

She kept grabbing at her mouth so we figured it was her teeth hurting, she’s got two coming in at the same time now which can’t feel good.  We gave her some teething tablets but they just didn’t seem to do it this time.  She kept grabbing and grabbing at her mouth, always on one particular side.  I peeked in while she was screaming at full throttle and noticed she has some teeth coming in where she was grabbing, so Jamie grabbed some baby orajel and put a little bit right on the spot of each incoming tooth.  Before you know it we had our bouncy, giggly Baby Hailey back!  She was so much fun we kept her up for about an hour before finally putting her back to bed.  Normally she’d complain, at least a little when going to bed.  But this time she was so exhausted and so releived she just grabbed her blanky and rolled over to dream land.

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Abigale is going to be moving into her new room soon (due August) and we have to move Hailey to the bigger room and get her and Abby’s rooms ready.  With that in mind, Hailey still doesn’t like going to bed at night.  With her being as rambunctious as she is, I can see her climbing out of a bed and trying to make an escape from her room.  She’ll be walking soon, she’s taking a few steps now, and I figured when she was old enough to walk she’d be old enough for a toddler bed with side rails.

What age did you take your kids out of the crib and put them into a bed?  Right now when I put Hailey to bed in the crib she’ll stand up as soon as I plop her in and shove her hands up at me that just screams ‘please daddy don’t make me go to bed’.  Breaks my heart every time, but anyway back to the point.  If she’s in a bed, she’ll be crawling out between my legs before I can get the bedroom door closed.  No really, she’s quick!  Haha, so when do you guys think is a good age to graduate to a bed?  Are we rushing a bit?

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Hailey has another tooth coming in.  She has five already, this is the sixth and she keeps getting really cranky every time we get another tooth coming in.  We’ve been using teething tablets instead of baby oragel to try to make it easy for her but I’m not sure which one works better.  Any body with kids have more experience in this department?  On top of the tooth medications, we give her a cold teething ring, any other suggestions on how we can keep our daughter from suffering through teething?

She seems to be having trouble sleeping even with either the tablets or oragel.  She normally is out for the night when you put her to bed in the evening, but lately when teething she wakes up crying.  She isn’t napping as much during the day either, today at daycare she didn’t nap at all.  Help!! 

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