He did it! He finally did it! That’s right – Joshua finally cut his first tooth this week! Needless to say, we are really, really excited that our eighteen-month-old is no longer toothless. It was about time.
He had been feeling badly for the past week or so, but it was hard to tell if he had caught a bug going around or teething. A slight fever and prodigious runny nose are symptoms of the bug and teething. Emily had the bug, and we’ve had about a million false starts, so I didn’t think much of it.
When Chad went to check again last night, though, there was definitely something sharp poking …
…Was his two front teeth! Okay, so maybe Joshua would rather get a cool car or dinosaur, but what I really wanted for him to get is those still-elusive first teeth. This week, he hits his half-birthday, meaning he’s fully a year behind the average little tike in teething. Plus, I’m pretty sure that I’m about to hit the limit on blog posts about teething.
The two weeks leading up to Christmas were so promising – he was finally teething. Now I know that for most moms, teething is one of the worst things their babies go through. Around here, though, we’re just ready for teeth, regardless of the accompanying unpleasantness. …
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 …
Owen showing off his new teeth.
Like most mothers I enjoy seeing Owen hit milestones. I saw his first smiles, watched him hold his head up, and track objects moved across his line of view. But when he started drooling, putting everything in his mouth, and acting like his mouth hurt; I couldn’t believe he could be getting a tooth at just 3 months old.
The evidence was undeniable when a bright white tooth popped up just the next day. This was one milestone that I wasn’t excited about seeing early. I was very nervous about nursing a baby with teeth. I know it is possible but I thought …
