Teething
Nina has four teeth coming in. I need to just get a vat of tooth gel and dunk her in it every few minutes. And it seems that her grandmother, if Nina "misbehaves", thinks that Nina's request for tooth gel is her "trying to get attention." Uh, I tend to give lil' Neener the benefit of the doubt, and due to her age of only 19 months, if she indicates to me she wants tooth gel, I'll give it to her.

It was also pointed out that Nina immediately tells me that her teeth hurt when I pick her up in the afternoon. This info was presented as if it didn't have any meaning and she was just trying to get my attention. Well, no, since grandmother won't give her any tooth gel during the day, Nina's trying to get daddy to get rid of the pain. Her grandmother said that when Nina is upset and points to her teeth, the sign that she wants tooth gel when done to Alison or me, she just says, "Yes, those are your teeth" or "That's your mouth."

And for some reason, no one understood why this upset me a little on Saturday. Well, Alison did after a good 24 hrs.

My boss, who is decidedly new age, said that you can tell if your baby is teething because they have a red ring around their butthole. Well, yeah, I'll agree that statement is probably true in some cases, but not all. After some research, I found out that some kids get diarrhea due to teething. And, since most infants crap on themselves, and not in the toilet, this would make their bootyhole hurt and get oofy.

My kiddo, a rare exception, sure, doesn't actually crap herself. She uses the toilet. I'm also not sure she has had diarrhea during teething anyway. But, as I told him, I've never seen a red ring around her butt. He said that it'll be there if I look, as if it's some mystical ring that appears for no reason.

Hey, did you notice I'm ranting today? Cause I am.
- posted by Nick Postagulous @ 1:18 PM