stop clenching my jaw

But really it’s more like I’m doing and must continue to do….

No headaches or real severe locking in a month.
But I need to stay focused during my trigger times. Don’t want to backslide.

But hooray! I think I’ve avoided the dreaded night guard.

I’ve only had the stabbing headache of horror twice in the past few weeks. Yay!

the amount of coffee I’m drinking every day doesn’t help either. But what am I to do? If the chum will wake up at these unreasonable hours and then I’m supposed to parent him and not lie prostrate on the floor…......

And it really helps in the early afternoon to have something to help push through the rest of the day.

Great. Drug-aided parenting.

• Any time I am trying to get the baby to sleep or back to sleep
• When my dear husband annoys me and I bite back criticism
• Whenever the baby is fussing and I can’t fix it (like in the car)

I’m trying to be super conscious in those times of keeping my mouth ajar. Seems to be helping. Have only had the shooting pains once or twice recently.

If I don’t deal with the stress related clenching, the word at the dentist’s is that I’ll need a nightguard.

But I don’t clench at night- so I’ll need to wear it during the day when doing activities that trigger my clenching.

That’ll be attractive.