Those are the exact same signs my daughter has when teething.  She is a great sleeper usually but definately not when her teeth are coming.  She heats up & gets bright red cheeks, panadol always helps to bring down the temp and make her more comfortable.  You'll see those toothypegs in no time!

It certainly sounds like teething to me.  The teething process can actually start sometime before the teeth appear.  The teeth move around under the gums until the are in the right places and then they start to pop through to say hello.

The drooling is a big sign of teething, so being a nursing mum, you might want to have an action plan in place for the biting that comes with teething.

The reason why babies are more unsettled at night is because it is quieter and not much is happening around them.  This means there is nothing to take their focus of the pain of the teeth coming through.

Yes, my late teething DD1 started to sleep through at 9 months and after 5 weeks abruptly stopped. 6 weeks later her first tooth came through. However DD2 was like this from 4 months and cut her first tooth 3 days before her birthday. So you just cant tell how long they will suffer for. But it just might help YOU to be patient!

It sounds exactly like my son! We werent sure if he was teething as this went on for ages with no signs of teeth but they all ended up coming at once, and appearing quite quickly. And it is always worse at night, here it started as soon as I had layed down in bed and turned off the light! hehe

Good luck!

Sounds to me like he is teething.   A cold face washer (or frozen) is good numbs the gums also get some teething rings.  

I use panadol and bonjella on my boy but i have heard that doesn't work for some kids, baby nurofen is good as it is an antinflammatory.  

Teeth move around you may see them then not for a couple of days.  Just 'cause you can't see the teeth doesn't mean he is not teething. 

Good luck with it all

It could very well be teething. Babies have teething pain even before you see a possible tooth poking through.

It sounds like it, my children had red ears aswell. I swear by bongela and panadol (you can get it for infants ask at the pharmacy) especially if its causing him discomfort or slight temperater. Good luck.

Yep!  He sure sounds like he is starting to teethe!  Rosy cheeks and droling are common indicators.  Do his rosy cheeks feel a littledry too?  I found that when my kids started. 

A friends' Mum who got her wisdom teeth through after having had her first two kids said she found her gums were incessantly itchy as the teeth broke, rather than sore, and she found that sucking on lemon wedges helped eradicate the itch!!

I tried it with my bubs when they were teething and although they puled some strange and rubery faces, they seemed to like chewing the wedges (but if you try this wrap them in gauze so they don't inhale the seeds!)

Also, if you can locate where a tooth might be starting to break through, dab a little spot of oil of clove on it and that will numb the site sufficiently for a few hours - you might all get some sleep.

Alternatively, there is a natural remedy that I used to buy form soul chemists - 14 years ago ti was called Harles Herbal Teething and Colic mixture.  All natural and contained peppermint oi, dogwood and a few other things.  It was a godsned as my first baby started teething at 4 months and had reflux that produced projectile vomiting after every feed and it was my saviour.  Far more effective than baby panadol (which I didn't like using anyway) and he would sleep for several hours with a small dose.  I found when my daughter was born 4 years later the company had split the product into two different mixtures though - one for colic and one for teething and it wasn't quite as effective until I combined a little of each into one dose.

Good luck!