Dear baby experts:

Thank you for all of the great suggestions you have given my wife and me in the ten months since our daughter was born. We loved your idea of changing her while she’s standing in her crib. The whole dissolve-in-their-mouths cereal thing? Genius! And, though I vowed to hate it, I admit that the Diaper Genie really was a good investment.

That said, those cookie-like teething biscuits you all recommend so highly might just be the work of Satan.

Yes, our baby loves them. And yes, it appears that they do, in fact, alleviate some of the pain she is experiencing due to new teeth. But, docs, it may not be possible for these cookies to create more of a mess.

Every time L has one, it’s like she becomes Pig-Pen from the Peanuts cartoons. A gooey, grainy gook from the biscuit gets all over everything—her onesie, her hands, her face and sometimes even her hair. This slobber also finds its way down the high chair, and eventually onto our kitchen floor.

Put simply, the stuff is gets everywhere.

And so, it is with great regret that I write to inform you that unless you want to pay for a daily cleaning service, we will no longer be using teething biscuits in this house. When the kid’s teeth hurt, we’ll give her a teething ring. When she wants a cookie, we’ll give her something else. And when she wonders what happened to her beloved biscuits, we’ll blame everything on you.

Sincerely,
MJV and Powergirl