The (Still!!!) Toothless Wonder
Yes, you read that correctly. Joshua, our seventeen-month-old, is still toothless. He walks, he talks, he’s learning body parts and animals. He’s pretty much a normal, albeit large, seventeen-month-old, until he opens his mouth and all you see are gums.
At a year, it was totally normal for our crew – none of our kids had the help of teeth to take down their first-birthday cupcake. Thirteen and fourteen months went by without teeth, and again no major worries. Emily was our first to teethe at thirteen months, and Nathan did it a month later. If you’ve been reading for a while you know we’re a slow crowd around here.
Fifteen months arrived, however, and it was starting to get a little leisurely even by our admittedly low standards. Joshua was now a quarter of the way through his second year of life, and still nothing. Then he passed sixteen months. And this past week, he turned seventeen months, and still nothing.
Now, this is starting to get ridiculous. What kid gets his first tooth this late?!? I will say this, he can eat just about anything, even without teeth. He has not let his disability get in his way of his innate desire to eat anything and everything in sight. It really is impressive how much he can get down by gumming. And if you’ve seen his backside recently, it certainly isn’t affecting his ability to gain weight.
We can feel the bumps in his gums indicating the teeth really are forming. They are there. And I’m not sure that, dentally speaking, there’s anything that can be done about it anyway. And so we all wait for that glorious moment when that first tooth comes. Because heaven knows this tooth is nearly a year late coming.
When did your little one teethe? Please tell me someone else’s child is this late!
