Toofie #2 is here.

Put that in the "just when you think you can't take anymore" category.

I'm not sure we're totally out of the woods in terms of pain this go-round--she woke up 10 minutes after I put her down tonight--but it's encouraging.

Remarkable--this morning when I posted that bleary-eyed message, one tiny corner of the tooth was protruding ever so slightly. Now there's a whole white line of tooth on top of the gums. Holy cow. That would make me inconsolable too. Oh wait, it did.

Our current theory about the night waking is that she's rolling over onto her tummy at night, a position which puts pressure on the swollen gums. One piece of data to support this: just to mix things up, we put her down for naps in her carseat today, and she slept well. I'm not fully comfortable with that at night, because it's getting too small and she can inch her way out of it (and strapping her in would just piss her off more). But if she wakes at midnight again, I'm moving her from crib to carseat. If she falls out of the seat, err, well, it's on a carpeted floor.

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Everyday we would think, "the pain's so bad, today's gotta be the day," and every night we'd wake up at some horrendous hour, and every morning we'd be disappointed by the seeming lack of progress. Meanwhile the pain kept getting worse and worse, and just when we were totally at the end of our rope...

The tooth/baby arrived.