Alison - re: no teeth

Daisygirl613

Cooper still has no teeth either, it's so crazy.  I've been giving him puffs, veggie sticks, baby snacks, etc for a while.  He loves them all.  He hates the stage 3 baby foods w/ chunks.   Occasionally I will give him food from my plate.  He seems to really love the chicken nuggets we get Jax - they are the dinosaur kind from bj's.  we just cut them into tiny pieces.  He also likes corn and fries.  LOVES popsicles.  seriously will have a fit if he sees jackson with one and not him.  it's hilarious.

Anyway...he's doing pretty well considering he has no teeth.  I just really watch him when he's eating anything.   

slwprincess

Gavin didn't get his first tooth until 11 mos.  He did fine eating table foods w/o teeth- pedi told me that most babies don't really use their teeth anyway so not to worry. 

Mrs.Guz

slwprincess:

Gavin didn't get his first tooth until 11 mos.  He did fine eating table foods w/o teeth- pedi told me that most babies don't really use their teeth anyway so not to worry. 

Ditto. Abigail didn't get her first tooth until 10.5 months. She did pretty good with table food every now and then. I just kept an extra eye on her.

Alison422

I guess it's throwing me off because C had her first two teeth before she was 5 months! I just need to start letting him try things and get over it.

decaturbride

I did the same thing with Owen. He didn't get a tooth until 9 months old and then it was all just front teeth. I was so freaked out about chocking that I didn't let him even have puffs until he was 9 months. Then of course I was told by other Mom friends that babies aren't chewing with molars until much later anyways, they are all gumming the food. Duh! I just never thought about him not getting molars usually until 1 yr.+. Once I started letting him try stuff, he could eat almost anything. I still cut everything in such tiny pieces for so long, he was probably annoyed at me. Let's go Mom, I'm hungry!