Teething patterns

WriterMama924

DS has been working on a tooth for a few days now, though it's still just a bump in the gum. However, the bump is actually where his lower right canine (eye tooth) would be. I heard most babies don't get this one until around 15 months (Rowan is 7 months), but the pedi nurse said while uncommon, it's not unheard of. That's the only area of the gums where it looks like one is trying to push through.

Has anyone else dealt with unusual teething patterns?

beccalee721

My LO (9 months this week) started with the normal 2 bottom middle teeth between 6-7 months, so everything I knew as "normal" was how it started. Then, she got an upper tooth. But not one of the first middle two, the set next to those. And then, she got another one on bottom and then the matching upper to go with the one she already had. So, at 9 months she has 3 on bottom and 2 on top that look like fangs with a gap where her top front 2 should be. We haven't been to her 9 month appt yet so it'll be interesting to hear what the doc says, but I figure the middle 2 will come in eventually and balance her out and until then I'll just continue to take pics of my little vampire!

WriterMama924

Haha, that's so cute! I'm taking DS to the doc tomorrow to make sure it's not like an ulcer on his gum instead of a tooth coming in. It could be both, because he's been messing with it so much with his tongue.

He's my first baby and it will be his first tooth, so I don't know what looks normal and what doesn't.

sschwege

For the longest time DD was missing one of her bottom incisors.  So many other teeth had come in at that point that our pedi said she might never get it.  It did eventually come in, but out of order.

beccalee721

It took a lot longer for my LO's first tooth to come in than I thought it would. We actually didn't notice it had come in, the daycare told us! lol But with her first few teeth it wasn't the horror story I had heard about with teething. The night her first tooth came in she started crying in her sleep and I went in and gave her her pacifier (she didn't even wake up) and she took it and calmed down. That was it! Now she's being more vocal with her teething pain, but I've heard as the teeth start coming in the more they hurt because you have new teeth breaking through and it still hurts them as a tooth pushed its way all the way up. I hope it's just a stubborn tooth and not an ulcer!