When a baby is teething, remember that there are some natural remedies you can try first to reduce the discomfort.

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"If this is your first case, you no doubt will be nervous from the responsibility, but you can try to keep a sense of celebration about the proceedings to come, " the manual says.

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If at first you do not succeed one year, you can also enter in the next year and try again.

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