A frozen washcloth is a great and inexpensive way to relieve baby teething pain. Learn how to use a washcloth for baby teething pain with tips from an expert on parenting infants in this free teething video.
Laine Podell-Camino MA, CLE, CIIM, is the owner of A Mother's Haven, and has Masters Degrees in Parent-Infant Education, and Deaf Education.
So one of the ways to help ease your baby's discomfort is to freeze a washcloth and give it to them so they can chew on it. It numbs their gums and also feels really good if they bite down on it. The terry of the texture will massage their gums and it feels really nice. So how do you do it? You just take a regular washcloth, any one that you have, and you fold it into quarters and then you're just going to kind of wrap it around so there's a little pointy tip on the end and either put it under the faucet or soak it in some water so the end gets nice and wet. You can go down as far as you want, and then just go ahead and pop this into the freezer for about thirty minutes. I already have a frozen one that I just took out of the freezer and you can see, it's hard to see freezing, but it's nice and hard and it's really cold so it feels good, but it's not too cold. So what you'll do is you'll just give it to the baby and if, depending on your babies age, you can hold it for them or let them hold it and they'll put it in their mouth, and usually they like to put it on the back of the gums, but if they're front
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