Expert Guidance from Health Visitor Tracey Stone
Tracey Stone is a Health Visitor, and able to provide expert guidance on all things teething. Currently a registered practising Health Visitor in the community working with children and their families, Tracey also supports families in the online community with issues related to health and wellbeing. She is a qualified Paediatric Nurse with over 20 years’ experience and a Nurse Prescriber. She has also helped establish a respite service for Children with Special Needs. These articles provide general teething information only and don’t constitute an endorsement of the brand.
Tracey Stone: What are some common teething remedies?
It’s reassuring to know teething is a natural part of your little one's development. It is not an illness. The symptoms you may have to manage should generally be mild, and can be done by you.
Read articleTracey Stone: Caring for Your Baby's Teeth
The right tools for the job are essential, so it’s a good idea to buy what you need in advance so there is no delay in getting brushing once their teeth appear.
Read articleTracey Stone: Breastfeeding and Teeth - the dreaded bite!
Building your breastfeeding relationship with your baby perhaps took a few weeks from the day you welcomed them into your world. This may have been stress free, or distressing with tears and toe curling nipple pain.
Read articleTracey Stone: Your Child's First Trip to the Dentist
Tracey Stone is a Health Visitor, and able to provide expert guidance on all things teething. Currently a registered practising Health Visitor in the community working with children and their families, Tracey also supports families in the online community with issues related to health and wellbeing.
Read articleTracey Stone: Is Teething Really Real?
Teething is a very topical subject talked about amongst parents or carers with children of the teething age. It is often considered the cause and blamed for many discomforts in a child up until they have their full set of permanent teeth, but is teething really real?
Read articleTracey Stone: Teething and Tooth Grinding
Your little ones new teeth are an exciting change for both of you. Once they arrive it's possible you may begin to hear a new sound coming from their mouths like two hard surfaces being rubbed together. It may make you cringe like nails down a blackboard!
Read articleTracey Stone: Teething, Feeding & Mealtimes
All parents like to feel that their babies and children are fed well with nutritionally balanced food, allowing then to grow and develop. It’s a big worry if you feel they are not getting the right amount of milk or solids, plus a hungry small person is not normally a happy one.
Read articleAsk the Health Visitor: Teething Remedies
Special Q&A article: Health Visitor, Tracey Stone, answers parents questions about teething remedies.
Read articleAsk the Health Visitor: Teething Symptoms
Special Q&A article: Health Visitor, Tracey Stone, answers parents questions about the symptoms of teething.
Read articleTracey Stone: Chewing and Choking
Once teeth are present, they are more able to bite off chunks of food. As much as this is an exciting and much-anticipated milestone, it also brings with it the very real fear that biting off bits of food and chewing will run the risk of your little one choking.
Read articleAsk the Health Visitor: The Teething Process
Special Q&A article: Health Visitor, Tracey Stone, answers parents questions on the teething process.
Read articleTracey Stone: Teething and Sleep
When your child’s first tooth will actually appear is quite unpredictable. However, what we do know for sure about teething, is it has no preference between day or night!
Read articleTracey Stone: Is My Baby Teething?
Signs and symptoms of teething can vary for each child and family. Sometimes you will suddenly notice the first gleam of a white tooth popping out of either your babies upper or lower gum. Other times however you may notice your baby beginning to show a change in behaviour making you wonder what on earth is going on!
Read articleTracey Stone: What is Teething?
Teething is a term that we all come across in early parenthood. It’s a normal developmental stage that every child goes through as they approach the right age. As parents, we all know to expect teething and see it as one of the first major milestones for our babies.
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