Are we going to make it?

There are days when I ask this question to myself many times. Am I going to make it through these nights of interrupted sleep, teething toddler, and crankyness? I pray out to God somenights, "help me be thankful for this" "help me be calm" and "help me survive". They are cries for help from a frazzled momma who is soooo ready for teething to be over. Well I assume its teething cause what the heck else could it be?? 

 Little buddy has been an awesome baby but teething has given us a hard time. Its mainly the nights that are so hard. It's like he is distracted during the day enough that they don't bother him that bad but at night it's a different story. He will wake between 1:30 and 4:30 and nothing soothes him except us. A couple of nights would be doable but we are going on 4 months of nonconsistent sleep. I don't realize how much that affects me until it's too late and I am a total mommy monster! It is so hard because you feel bad that they are hurting and want to comfort them but sometimes there is only so much you can do. We have let him "cry it out" at times when we "think" he has gotten too used to us coming in to get him during the night. It is such frustrating thing. We do as much as we can then PRAY it was enough. Here are some things we have tried for teething relief.

 1. Rotating tylenol and motrin Honestly I feel like sometimes it has no affect at all, and other times when he sleeps through the night I wonder if it was the medicine that helped. 

 2. Teething gel/tablets. We started using the homeopathic teething gel and really liked it, now we are trying the homeopathic teething tablets. They are basically the same ingredients just a different form. I do think that these help him. He seems less fussy and irritable.

 3. Toothbrush/teething stick He loves to chew on a toothbrush so I bought some teething sticks to see if that would help. They have a rubber tip and a handle with a guard so that they can not choke on it or ram it down their throat (I know horrible descriptor, I'm sorry!!).

 4.Ice/frozen fruit This worked great when Isaiah was less mobile. I could sit him in his highchair and put a piece of ice or frozen fruit in a mesh feeder. He would gnaw on the frozen fruit and I really think the numbing effect helped. 

I know these are not "new" or "mindblowing" ways to help alleviate the affects of teething but they have helped us. Now if only I could invent something that would help us get through those sleepless nights! I am hanging onto the hope that one day he will eventually be done teething (fingers crossed)! I realize I am not the first nor the last momma to lose sleep or have a teething toddler but I find that it helps to have others to lean on and help talk through these tough times. Hope everyone is having a great Tuesday!

It's a day late but Isaiah was unenthusiastic about his St.Pattys day attire.