We have...

[ann_of_loxley]

a TOOTH!...

and maybe two (will have to wait and see what the one next to it ends up doing - but I can see it there under the gum!)...



And he has done really well! Besides lots of drool and only a little bit grizzly - a boob or a sling could handle it all! Perhaps there really is something to these amber teething necklaces after all!!!

[Knitting Mama]

Ann, how exciting! It hasn't broken through yet, but I can see that little tooth under the surface in Cecilia's mouth, and feel it when she chews on my fingers (and she ALWAYS drags the finger to the spot on her gum where the tooth is). It's the bottom one just to the right of the front teeth. We've also been using an amber necklace since 2 months old, and either I have a really easy teether or it really works!

[bubbamummy]

wow!! My kids are delayed teethers Sam didnt have one single tooth until about 5 days before his 1st birthday then the next one didnt appear until he was 14 months Apparently their Daddy didnt start teething until he was 14 months either, so i guess it's genetic. Im not expecting toofers any time soon.

[ann_of_loxley]

Originally Posted by bubbamummy

wow!! My kids are delayed teethers Sam didnt have one single tooth until about 5 days before his 1st birthday then the next one didnt appear until he was 14 months Apparently their Daddy didnt start teething until he was 14 months either, so i guess it's genetic. Im not expecting toofers any time soon.

MIL doesn't remember with DH - but I know DS1 got his first tooth like two days after he turned 6 months of age - and I got a tooth at three months. Hamish looks so much like - he must have a lot of my genes! lmao... He is only a few days shy of 15 weeks!

Aimee - Hamish does the same. He can really chomp too! I think perhaps thats why he stopped sucking on my fingers for comfort - he took up chomping them instead! lol

[laughingfox]

Wow!

My DD1 had her 2 bottom teeth just under the surface at 4 months, but they didn't pop through until she was 10 months!
Maybe that's why she'd get so fussy sometimes..

[Knitting Mama]

Laughingfox, I so hope that it doesn't take until Cece's 10 months old for this one to come through...

[triony]

Wow, holy toofs!

MIL says that DH had teeth at 1 month, but she tends to exaggerate. She also says that her dd was talking sentences at 9 months.... (Is that even remotely possible?)

Anyone want to give me the run down on Amber teething necklaces? I should just go google it....

[ivymae]

Originally Posted by triony

She also says that her dd was talking sentences at 9 months.... (Is that even remotely possible?)

It IS. I never believed it until i met a family (who we are now very close to) and their 10 month old used the word "unresponsive" in a sentence. As in, she was complaining that an 18 month old wasn't talking to her. She is still, at 4, very advanced verbally - some kids just excel in stuff. She's fairly normal in every other way, and maybe a little behind in others, but yeah, it was really strange to see a tiny baby talking that way.

[Knitting Mama]

Originally Posted by triony

Wow, holy toofs!

MIL says that DH had teeth at 1 month, but she tends to exaggerate. She also says that her dd was talking sentences at 9 months.... (Is that even remotely possible?)

Anyone want to give me the run down on Amber teething necklaces? I should just go google it....

Amber: I have had Cece in hers since she was 2 months old. It is from Inspired By Finn, and I won it off a blog. To be completely honest, at first I probably wouldn't have spent the money on it, because it sounds like utter bull. But now that I have had it on her for 2 months and have watched her drool up a storm, with a tooth JUST below the surface but still not being fussy, well, either I have an easy teether or the amber really works.

The basic premise is that amber has a mild natural analgesic in it. Wearing it against the skin near the area of pain allows the warmth from your body heat to warm the amber and some of that analgesic to sink into the skin. I have heard that you can try to use a bracelet or anklet but that for teething it's really best to be a necklace because of the proximity. If anyone else has experience with anklets or bracelets I am sure they can chime in as to whether they worked for their babies or not!

[ann_of_loxley]

Yep - make that TEETH! ... Funny how they come in basically together. DS1s came in at 6 months - then the other tooth at 7. It wasn't until after the first two teeth that they started coming in in groups rather than individually. Ds1 did have 16 teeth by a year...wonder how much Hamish will have!

Hamish wears his amber teething necklace on his wrist Aimee. Its really dangly on his neck and I have him in and out of the sling on my back often - so I am not comfortable with his around his neck yet. But its a nice comfortable fit around his wrist.