Originally Posted by nannyde:
No. I don't allow jewelry and teething pain seems rare in my experience.
Teething gets blamed for a lot of discontent with the baby at home but I don't see too many issues with it.
This 100%. I've never had problems with teething in all my years of childcare. Children are a little fussy sometimes but not enough for me to put them in danger even if it's low risk. A center in California just had a child die due to a teething necklace while sleeping (according to early reports) and there are several stories out there of children almost choking or strangling using them. Many states don't allow children to wear them at all in childcare.
To top it off there are so many studies saying they don't do a darn thing and they're way more compelling than the antidotal support for them provided by parents.