A girl was brought to Dr. Thomas Rennaker, a dentist in Los Angeles, Calif., because she had pain in her mouth. The diagnosis? Teething. The mom was pleased that she didn't have a more serious problem.

Obviously the pain was bad enough to want to do something about it. The pain can be stressful for Baby. But a cranky, teething baby can cause stress for Mom, Dad and siblings as well. Here are some tried-and-true teething remedies that have worked for other parents, what the experts think about these remedies and what the experts themselves recommend.

Karri Flatia is a work-at-home mom in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, with two little boys, both of whom have had teething struggles that inevitably interrupted their sleep. She's found that the sleepless nights generally occur at the rate of one bad night per tooth. "The best way to cope with teething, for me, as a breastfeeding mom, was always ibuprofen combined with nursing the little fellow back to sleep," she says. "If nursing is not available to you, then snuggles and stories are a great distraction while the painkiller kicks in and that usually takes about 20 minutes to happen."

Nursing, or the "magic boobie" was a remedy mentioned by a few other moms, including Debbie Schwartzberg Levy of Pittsburgh, Pa. "If you are nursing, the boobie fixes everything," she says. "My kids would stay there forever to comfort themselves."

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