A breast milk ice cream: a mother's trick to calm her baby's dentition

The first teeth usually appear between the sixth and eighth month of the baby, although this is not something standardized, since each child has its own pace of development. Teething is usually accompanied by discomfort in the gums. The gums are inflamed, reddened and usually cause some pain and discomfort in the baby, which indicates that you are about to cut your first teeth.

Tasia Blackwell, an Ohio mother has had A great idea to calm the discomfort of your baby's teething: an ice cream made with breast milk that your little one nibbles with the gums. He shared it on Facebook and his trick went viral. So if you want to put it into practice, take good note.

Has called him "Milksicle, Popsicle made of breast milk" (polo made with breast milk) and with it he has found a way to relieve his baby without resorting to other solutions such as teethers or toys that could be dangerous.

In addition, she continues to offer her baby a food of high nutritional quality that adapts to each stage of growth such as breast milk. And your baby seems to be delighted.

How to make a breast milk ice cream

It is very simple. Enough with express the milk, place it in an ice cream mold (or poles) and put it in the freezer so that it hardens until it acquires ice cream consistency.

If you do not have molds, you can use a bucket and place a stick when it is hardening. Then, when your baby is taking it, it controls very well to remove the stick from the hands and avoid accidents.

You must follow all the recommendations for a safe extraction and be careful with the hygiene of the molds. Also remember that you should never freeze the milk or ice cream made with it again.

Other ways to calm teething problems

  • Perform a gentle massage with a cold gauze over the gums.

  • Offer you hard and cold foods that serve as natural snappers (such as pieces of apple or cooked carrot), since toy snappers are under suspicion for being made of components that could be toxic.

  • Teething gels and placing paracetamol on the gums do not claim to be effective methods to calm the discomfort of teething.