teething???

well last night was awful but this morning was about normal. katie was up at 545 and after nursing (but not that much) she was up for the day! she ate breakfast but not too much and then went down for a nap at 9 but only for 45 minutes so that wasn't great but i took it! we had an early lunch cus she slept so little this morning by 1130 she was hungry so we had a little lunch, today she decided she was not going to eat puree's she just wanted finger food. i had to fight both breakfast and lunch to get her to eat any puree. she napped from 1-4 this afternoon but like i said yesterday i was goign to try and eliminate the nursing before the am nap so today, i offered it to her before both naps and she didn't' take it either time. now i'm starting to worry a little cus she ate a poor breakfast, didn't nurse before nap, then ate a small lunch and didn't nurse before afternoon nap. humm... well at 430 she woke up and did nurse which was great cus she really hadn't taken in many calories today at all. dinner came along and she ate half a jar of food and fought me to the end for just that so i started searching for finger foods to give her cus she sure wasn't eating anything else. she ended up with grapes, cheerios (even though she had those for breakfast), cheese (her new favorite thing), a piece or two of some crackers, squash mashed (that we had for dinner and she wouldn't' eat it off a spoon so she tried picking up mashed squash and stuffing it in her mouth), and some banana covered in cheerios. sheesh i was exhausted from all the cutting and mashing and trying to figure out what she would eat. after all that she still didn't eat much of it.
so now its bedtime! humm whats tonight gonna be like. well it took her from 6-7 to eat dinner tonight cus of all the fighting so once we got her out of the high chair (bri was home late again) so i started her playtime before he got home to tire her out a little. whats next on the list... yep nursing! but after a day like today i didn't know what was gonna come my way. around 8 i tried nursing and well.... first time for everything katie BIT me! and not just once. i mean half a dozen times and OUCH it hurt!
so.... i said omg forget this. she had only drank for maybe one or two minutes before biting so she didn't' nurse much. its almost as if she is eating enough today just so she isn't hungry. i started to get worried about how she was going to go to bed on an empty tummy. i mean she had practically no dinner and now no milk. so i went into the kitcen and fixed a bottle. katie hasn't had formula since the week she was born maybe once or twice and then once since then so she isn't familiar with the bottle or formula itself so i tried it and no luck. someone told me to maybe try it in a sippy cus cus she is enjoying that so much so i went in the kitchen and tried sippy cup. no luck. she took one sip and realized what it was and said no sir!
so i said alright crib time. time to cry it out. being night number 6 and night number 4 she slept through the night and number 5 i screwed up i thought tonight would be a toss up . she hasn't' eaten well so who knows.

so i talked to my girlfriend and she told me that not eating is a sign of teething. now of course i know this but i didn't' relate the two during the day cus katie wasn't acting like she did when she was teething at 7 months and the first two teeth came in. katie used to drool like crazy, she would cry, and was so fussy, i couldn't make her laugh or smile, she was just a fussy, cranky, crabby baby when her teeth were coming in. today she just wouldn't eat. she didn't need Tylenol, or teething tablets, she wasn't gnawing on toys or her fingers like she does normally so i never thought of teething. now my girlfriend says her baby acted different each round of teeth that came in. hummmm ahhhhhhhh so maybe she is acting this way for the this round and differently last time. hummm learn something new every day!
i checked tonight and didn't see any whites of new teeth coming in but who knows. maybe she will sleep well tonight and by tomorrow she will have some new teeth! wishful thinking. thats about all i have left when it comes to bed time!