Oh, what a week this has been! My poor Oliver appears to be in full teething mode. It has been a week of VERY long nights and plenty of desperation trying to figure out what is troubling my little man. The week started with Oliver refusing to eat

from his bottle. He was becoming very frustrated at feeding time. I had been using a slow-flow nipple, so I thought I would try a nipple with a quicker flow – fast, but not too fast. I thought this would be a piece of cake. Then I discovered Playtex doesn't make a medium-flow nipple. So, I bought the fast-flow nipples and of

course they were way too fast for him and as a result he was practically choking on his food. Arrrrrg! So after calling a number of stores around the city an

d getting advice from many people, I tried making the slow-flow nipples bigger with a pin. I don't know if it actually did anything because he continued to fuss. In the end we tried a different type of fast-flow nipples and eventually he got the hang of it. Now he is eating at a better pace, minus the choking.

A lot of frustration could have been saved this week if we could have just found a medium-flow nipple! I'm sure I'm not the only person to go through this.

While spending the week at my parents’ house, the nighttime nightmares began. Oliver would wake up wailing minutes after being put to bed. And then, like clockwork, he would pretty much wake up every 45 minutes all through the night. I was lucky to have my mother with me and – believe me – we tried everything we could think of to offer him some relief. In the end we found that a little baby Anbesol would ease the pain and calm him down. Sadly, this is no long term solution and the teething gel can only be applied a few times a day. But it really helped when he was experiencing s

evere pain. I've ordered an amber teething necklace online, because apparently baltic amber has great healing properties.

We'll see...I hope it helps. I'll try anything at this point to bring Oliver some relief. I'm lucky that at least he takes really long naps in his sling, because otherwise I would have an exhausted baby on my hands.

On a positive note...Oliver rolled over, from back to front, for the first time this week! He's like a little turtle when he rolls over, because once on his stomach he starts flailing about trying to get on his back again. Needless to say we're very proud of him!