As for teething - quite possible - he chews on everything (and has been for a while)... but nothing buddng yet.
I can tell you that Josie chewed on EVERYTHING for MONTHS before she actually cut any teeth - and whenever she did, it was almost ALWAYS a surprise. We'd wake up one morning and she'd have another tooth, like when she cut her top ones. She spent an entire day cranky and crying and I couldn't figure out why; I was just about having a breakdown w/all her crying. Next day she was clicking her bottom teeth against her brand new top ones! :shock:
PU/PD didn't work well for us either, at least not w/Josie. She was too Touchy, and I'm even more so. It probably WOULD work with Natalie if I didn't have another (Touchy) child who wanted my attention from time to time. LOL
Are you using a pacifier? Swaddling? White noise? Losing the pacifier can wake some babies, and others benefit from the sensation of being wrapped (Josie did, Natalie does NOT) or white noise to mask other sounds that might bring a baby to full alertness during what would otherwise just be a shift in sleep cycles.
As for cereal, Josie tolerated it OK but we found after a while that it was giving her just enough gas that it bothered her. We tried switching to barley, which some babies tolerate better, but it seemed to bind her up, so we ended up settling on oatmeal. (Yes, I'm grasping at straws at this point, but it's a thought.)
Hope something in here is useful!
