[tri-med] Re: Hurtin' fingers

Don't you just love it?  Keren used to stick her fingers in her mouth, 
then quit for about a year and started chewing on her lip instead--not 
fun!  Then, with these last few teeth she started at her fingers again. 
  She won't chew them too hard, but when the teeth are really cutting 
she likes to try to get the finger down her throat (and of course gag 
and spit up).

We just struck on a funny solution last week that seems to be working 
pretty effectively.  Kraig pulled out a pacifier that we got when Keren 
was in the NICU just after birth--it looks like a simple disk with a 
cylinder sticking out of it which goes in the mouth.  The cylinder is 
hollow and fits right over Keren's finger right now.  Wouldn't you know 
but she'll actually stick that in her mouth and kind of gnaw at it, and 
the disk part keeps it from going too far into her mouth.  I think that 
particular kind of pacifier is a hospital special; I know there are 
different sizes, so perhaps a size that would fit Miss Claire?

Oh!  Here's the name and a website: "Wee Soothie" at www.childmed.com

Hope this helps!

Loren (wife to Kraig, mom to Keren, T18, two years old (9/27/02), and 
new little one due 7/13/05)
Southeast Michigan
http://webpages.eng.wayne.edu/~ad6075


On Saturday, April 30, 2005, at 04:19 PM, Debbie wrote:

> Claire has been biting her fingers... these darn new teeth are taking 
> some
> getting used to.
> She still isn't holding toys for teething and she is used to putting 
> her
> hands in her mouth to soothe herself... and you know how sharp those 
> teeth
> are!
>  Right now, we've put socks on herhands (doubled them up) to cut the 
> 'blow'
> of the biting... her thumb sucking is also creating problems with her 
> hands
> getting torn up esp between thumb and index finger. The sock has been 
> a bit
> of a deterance (sp?), and I'm hoping to be able to take them off soon. 
> After
> bath time, I put hydrogen peroxide on her hand to clean them up, then 
> the
> sock goes back on... I was using gentian violet, but everything got so
> purple (and I mean everything).
>  Any quick and easy (aka painless) solutions would be helpful.
>  Debbie, mom to Claire (t18 2yo)
> -- 

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