Baby Teething Toys
Welcome to our website. Here you will be able to find information about baby teething toys of many varieties that can be used to relieve the discomfort of your baby’s teething. Whether you are looking for teething rings or teething necklaces, or perhaps you are interested to find out more about organic teething rings or vibrating teething rings. This site aims to bring together all the need to know information for your search and provide some reviews of the main products too.
Providing teething rings for you baby can immediately reduce the pain that they are feeling as their little teeth start to cut through their gums. Checking out the alternatives for baby teething toys is a really smart thing to do, and I hope our little site can help you out in this. But, to get us off on the right foot, here’s little more information about teething and why baby teething toys can be beneficial for your teething baby.
What is Teething?
Teething occurs in babies from as early as 3 months up until as late as their third birthday. It is the process of their baby or milk teeth pushing up through their gums. The order in which these teeth ‘cut through’ (which is why sometimes this is called teeth cutting), varies with each child.
The level of pain experienced by each child will vary too. Some will be a bit fussier than usual, while others seem to experience a high level of discomfort and pain throughout the process. The discomfort stats about 3- 5 days before the tooth pushes through and then abates about a day afterwards. Some babies are not even bothered by teething, but most are.
Why Teething Rings can help?
Baby teething toys, in the form of rings, necklaces, blanket or other chewable items assist to relieve the pain of this process. This is part of a natural instinct to chew on items to help the overall process. The action of biting down on something provides relief. With such young children it is very important that any item they are chewing on is very robust and will not easily break, since small pieces can be a choking hazard. For this reason, smart manufacturers have created baby teething toys. These are toys specifically designed to be chewed on by small babies and so are designed not to fall apart in their mouth and can stand up to the tough chewing ahead!
So, what’s the difference?
Part of you baby’s natural preferences will influence which kind of baby teething toys are going to be most effective, so you may need to try out a couple before you get to the ones that work the best. Or, being beautiful, but fickle babies. He may start out loving one kind of baby teething toy and then change to something else. Here’s a quick breakdown of the different types. You can access more detailed information on the pages of this site.
Teething Rings
Teething rings are, as the name suggests, toys shaped liked rings. They are sometimes filled with distilled water, which allows the ring to be refrigerated (not frozen) before being given to a teething baby. The circular shape of a ring is easy for baby to hold and rings are often made of textured materials which also provide a massaging effect to the gums and helps to ease the teeth out.
Teething Necklace
Teething necklace is either made of plastic/rubber materials of standard teething toys, or can be made of amber. Amber is a naturally occuring stone which means that if using non man-made products is important to you, an amber teething necklace might be good. The advantage of a teething necklace is that it takes away the risk of the teething toy ending up on the floor, and then back in babies mouth – the teething necklace is worn as a necklace, both in easy reach of baby’s mouth, but away from (most) parts of the floor.
Vibrating Teething Ring
A vibrating teething ring takes the natural pain relief concept to the next level. These baby teething toys have an internal battery that lasts up to 8 hours and provides gentle massaging which pedeatricians recommend as a useful pain reliever. The battery is entirely internal (ie no small pieces that could break open) and likely to last more than long enough to see your baby through their teething period. As with any teething toy, some babies will love this vibrating effect and others will not find it useful at all. It may be a matter of helping your baby find what works for them.
Organic Teething Ring
If you are concerned about what is going in your babies mouth, then you might want to find an organic teething ring. These are often made of natural wood products or BPA free plastics (that is free from plastics that contain Bisphenol-A, silicone, PVC and pthalates. Some are combined with organic cotton characters to provide comfort as well as teething relief.
