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EAT => Breast Feeding => Topic started by: jjstar on September 01, 2005, 21:13:31 pm
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Hi ladies...I'm hoping that you might be able to offer some advice/support. My LO is teething and has been waking up at night I assume because of the pain. (Past two nights it has been almost exactly 4 hours after the last tylenol dose.) Here is my question, would I be so awful if I nursed him to help sooth him? He doesn't take a paci and when I haven't nursed him it has taken almost 2 hours to get him settled and back to sleep. I was just thinking that maybe if I nursed him and he was settled that he wouldn't be losing to much sleep. TIA
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It's up to you. If you're asking, will it help in the short term - no doubt! It's easier for us, easier for them...there's a reason babies like to nurse! :wink: He WILL become used to it, and you'll have to break the habit later... I have to say that I do it when she's sick or in pain, so do I think it's awful? No. :) He's still fairly young, so it shouldn't be too hard to change back later, and when he's older, you can start using infant Motrin, which lasts much longer than Tylenol. :D
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thanks for your input Erin!