During the past year on Everyday Mom, and back in the old days of the forum software, every so often someone would write in to ask whether Hylands Teething Tablets work. Others would respond, usually to say yes, sometimes to say no, ocassionally to tell a lurid tale involving child vomit. Now, I'm not paid to push Hylands products, nor to give homeopathic advice. I'm only here to write about motherhood.

That said, I must tell you that the other night by friend L. called. Well, I had called her first to see if I could borrow her baby backpack for some hiking I had in mind. When she answered the phone she was all upset. Her baby was all upset. He couldn't settle down Life was not good. Thinking I should bring something over in return for the backpack, I grabbed my pink and blue bottle of Teething Tablets, and when I arrived, handed them over as a peace offering. Most of the time it's hard to know when a baby is actually teething, but then again, it's always worth a try. All I know is as I was leaving, L's husband could be heard saying something like "let's give him half the bottle" (he was joking....).

The best thing happened. Two days later I got an email from L saying that the baby had slept, two nights in a row. Everyone was feeling much better. They really do work, and I'm just here to repeat the tale.

Last one, I promise. Apparently the Today Show covered this too. I can't get the download to work, my mac isn't cooperating and with a fussy baby this morning I haven't the energy to figure out why. I did get to see the promo picture and it ain't pretty. They contort the face of the woman who wrote the initial article so she looks rather horrid (because of course we know that we can't ever say that motherhood is boring and if we do, we must look like a mean, evil troll).

That's the last of this thread. As with all these things, something new will come along, we'll forget all about this one, and in the meantime, we're still doing our thing, trying to find the good meaning in our hours and days, no matter what we're doing through all the minutes that pass.