First tooth

[*LittleMissSummer*]

What's the earliest a baby can start teething?

Theres a girl who was due 2 weeks before me when i was pregnant and she ended up having her DD a few days before mine.

She's posted a status on FB saying she is the proudest mother in the world as her DD is getting her first tooth in.

I always thought it was much later. But then MIL said DP had teeth at 6 months.

[Artechim]

Very rarely they can be born with teeth. I know of one baby who has a couple at 3 months. My DD just got her first a few days after she turned one. There is quite a variance in it, but on average they will get the first ones around 5-7 months.

[Arimeh]

One of DH's friends was born with teeth - he was also 14 pounds when he was born!

All of mine have been around 7 months when it first popped through, but one of my friends baby was 12 weeks when she got her first tooth.

My nephew didn't get his first tooth till he was 17 months old - so yeah - "normal" is very wide across all ages!

[Just Me]

I know babies who have had them from 3 months and others who haven't had any until 13 months. Every baby is so different. My DD1 got her first tooth at 4 and a half months and my other two had none until they were 7 months. They have also got them all in different orders. They seem to get the middle bottom two first, but DD1 got her eye teeth, the ones either side of the middle teeth at the top, second and had a massive gap there for a while.

How exciting for your friend that her baby is teething. Little milestones like that are fun to celebrate and acknowledge

[MummaSue]

My friend's baby got her first tooth at 4 weeks!!

[[M]umma[M]ia]

In my books that is REALLY early. But that might just be because DD didnt get her first tooth until 11 months!

[Indadhanu]

Oh yeah, Jazz was a vampire baby! It looked so funny!

I think teething is like everything babies do - in their own time, in their own way, when their bodies are ready.

[~Hestia~]

I think Moo started teething around Christmas time. He would've been 4 and a half months old.

[Indadhanu]

Anytime I have read about babies born with teeth, and know of some babies who had no teeth at 12 months. A friend of mine had a little boy who cut his first tooth at 4 weeks! The average is about 4-6 months I think, and Jazz started getting teeth at 4 months.