Baby M is not four months old yet, but has started teething a few weeks ago already. His symptoms: constant drooling, refusal to eat (there were one or two times where he went more than nine hours without eating! oh my!), irritability (though that's normal for him), diaper rash, and sucking on his lips/gums. Some of the symptoms have subsided and I don't see any pearly whites poking through yet, but I did feel something hard in his upper gums when I put my finger there a few weeks ago.
Despite my earlier resistence (we never had to use one for big sister K), we tried giving baby M a pacifier to hopefully ease his discomfort (and to give our ears a break from the crying), but he didn't seem to like it; he just ended up spitting it out. Recently, he's discovered his left hand and has started sucking on his thumb. I take it out of his mouth every time I see it in there, only to have him scream bloody murder (not a big deal when we're home, but it can cause quite a scene when in public). He only sucks on his left thumb though. Perhaps baby M will be a lefty like daddy.
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