my little baby is growing up - her first tooth

[Yael]

I can't believe it - my little baby isn't a newborn anymore she was chewing on my finger today and i felt something familar and a little sharp, and there is the very tip of a tooth coming through!

Pretty early huh @ 4 months huh??? I still can't believe it... with DS i wanted him to reach all these milestones quickly - with her i just want her to stay a baby.

At least with both my kids they seem to be great teethers - only nappy rash with DS (it was how we knew a tooth was on the way), no fevers or any grizzling - behaviour was completely normal - including when he got 2 molars on 1 day!

Other than everything in the mouth and excess drool with DD (which is completey normal behaviour at this age regardless of teeth), i wouldn't have known..

What really gets me is everyone sees the above behaviour and goes "oh, she much be teething" to which i scoff and tell them thats how they learn and explore at her age, and the drool is because of the lack of a being about to swallow saliva - so i think the tooth was purely co-incidence with this behaviour - but everyone (i.e. MIL!) is going to say "i told you so" grrrr....

[Trish]

OMG Yael, already. It all goes way too fast doesn't it. I am thinking Abbey will cut teeth early too. She has what appear to be teeth in her bottom gums. We get the drooling and hand chewing too.

Maybe you can hold off telling the likes of MIL about her tooth