teething questions

*Barbie*

anyone have molar(s) come in first?

How long is "normal" for fusiness to last with a new tooth?

anything you can recommend to help? (we've tried baby tylenol, frozen washcloth, rubbery toys, my finger, my finger in baby toothbrush, baby oragel)

how long does it normally take for the tooth to come in?

at first we thought she was just fussy because she has a cold, but then i saw a flash of white on her gums when she was crying, and i can feel the tooth poking through. She's just over 6 months, which i understand to be fairly normal - but the fact that it's a molar and not an incisor is what is throwing me.

AuntFlo

It's very, very rare for her first tooth to be a molar.   We thought DD's first one was going to be a molar too, but it was the sharpness and the color of her gums/bone showing through.   We mentioned it to her Dr at her 6 month appt, and felt pretty stupid when he told us it wasn't a tooth.
The Dr said that 80% of the time, the first teeth are the bottom front, and 19% were the top front, anything else was 1%.  (Those are just estimations - -that appt was 2 years ago, so I really don't remember it exactly.)
I'm not saying that Wolverine isn't getting molars in - - I'm just telling you what I know.   So take it with a grain of salt.

As far as what to do for teething, DD never complained too much.   We'd occasionally gave her Tylenol (the bad stuff, before the recall!) but that was pretty much it.

tawillers

I don't have experience with the molars coming first, but DD was usually fussy for a week or less when she was teething before one would pop through.  A few times, she had more than one break through at a time, which probably caused more fussiness, but we had the luck of not having to go through it tooth by individual tooth.

I don't have any other tips or tricks for you.  We tried/used everything you listed above.

Queen Jane

One of my friends swears by Hyland's teething tablets. We started with teething in December and currently he has top and bottom front two with four more on their way up. For us it's been more of a sleep interruption and when it's real bad he won't eat as much. I found using Tylenol helps a little bit.

*Barbie*

it may not be a molar - but definetly white, and completely poking through the gums, like this:

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GBCK

we found diddly and squat that worked...tylenol every 6 hours, lots of extra nursing time...
and she KINDA liked the nubbly berry 'teether'--it's a pacifier looking things w/ a raspberry looking dojob where they suck.