teething necklaces

I swear by ours .. so much so, that when we "misplaced" it whilst moving, I immediately ordered another.

Although we did find the original, at least now she has a spare (oh and they are sooo cute!)

do they have boy looking ones?

Amber possesses analgesic properties and when warmed up by the skin, releases them to the wearer.

I bought mine off russki1 on TM for about $28, which includes the authentication certificate as well. They come in lots of different colours, I got Jack the multi-coloured one and he looks like a wee surfer!

My boy is a terrible teether (poor tike got his first tooth at 4.5 months and had 8 by 8 months) and once I had bought the necklace I noticed a marked improvement in irritability. He still gets red cheeks (not as much though) and still drools, but he doesn't constantly grizzle which was the thing that used to do my head in. Plus the amount of pamol we have to dish out has dropped dramatically. As you can tell I'm all for them

Lil miss has an amber teething bracelet, can't say we've needed it for teething yet but it looks cute!

Livvy hasn't had hers on consistantly enough for me to make a definite statement but my thinking was that if there is the possibility of it helping then it would be worthwhile. We very rarely have to give her Pamol though. And they look so cute anyway. You can get anklets for them too which are really gorgeous.

KA, Kiwimummy had one of the multi-coloured ones for Drew and I thought it looked really good for a boy. He looked like a lil surfer dude!

The beads are all individually knotted so if it breaks none can come off.

The only problem we had with Leahs was that the clasp broke, I took it back and they exchanged it no problems. but the one we got was slightly bigger and too long so she could actually get it in her mouth, I stopped using it then.

Hi Mareed!
Ours is lovely - bought off TM ($28 if I remember right), and I did some at-home 'check if it's real amber' tests that Bizzy had found online and it passed. Until then, I'd been a little sceptical, of course!
I can't honestly say if it's helped Ella teethe or not - she's onto her 2yo molars now, and I never know when one's pushing through or moving about as I barely see them (and she always drools anyway)! But it seems worth a try to me. Only problem is that they're too long - baby can easily get it into their mouth to chew, which isn't a great idea. I shortened Ella's by about 10 beads, which anyone who's handy with jewellery can do. I think I'll get a dark amber one for our next baby as Ella's might seem a bit 'pretty' on him.

$90 seems a lot. But then I thought $28 seemed too cheap too. The deal with beads being individually knotted is that if baby breaks the necklace somehow, only one bead will come off, rather than the whole lot running into their mouth.

When I looked into them, the stuff I read said that it's the body's heat warming the beads a little that releases their analgesic qualities, rather than the beads touching each-other, though more friction would probably warm them up a little more I suppose.

Zebra, I think bubbas just get dribbly about that age - something to do with saliva glands.

I think my teething necklace was a waste of money - I got it (new) off trademe, and I'm not sure it was the real deal. We stopped using it and noticed no difference.

I take DD's off for the night time sleep but leave it on for daytime sleeps if that's any help - she hasn't managed to strangle herself with it yet Apparently wearing it all day 'tides' them over through the night.