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Another question - about teeth, this time

mssaintmssaint
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I'm home from work today and J is being surprisingly quiet and playing happily on his own.

So he is definitely in the early teething phase. All the books/articles say that you will start to see the tooth bumps under the gums. Where exactly on the gums? On the front, the tips, or the back?  LO has bumps in all sorts of random places in his mouth and I'm not sure what might be teeth and what is just lumpy gums.


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Re: Another question - about teeth, this time

  • Mrs.HandyMrs.Handy member
    The only way I knew DS had teeth coming in for sure was when I had my finger in his mouth and I felt something hard! Otherwise, I could never really tell the difference between tooth bumps and other bumps and I still can't.
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    imageMrs.Handy:
    The only way I knew DS had teeth coming in for sure was when I had my finger in his mouth and I felt something hard! Otherwise, I could never really tell the difference between tooth bumps and other bumps and I still can't.


    Ditto this.
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  • SofkaSofka

    I once read that the 1st tooth is always on the bottom, the center right

     

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  • AgrippaRidesAgainAgrippaRidesAgain member

    They'll be kind of in the middle of the gums.  You'll be able to see the front of the gums swollen before teeth actually arrive:

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    (Sorry so big--I wanted you to be able to see his gum)  If you look in the center of his gum, you'll see a glowing swollen area.  This was about 2 weeks before the bottom two teeth came through.
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  • mssaintmssaint
    Thank you! That's exactly how his top gums look right now. I can't really get a good look at his bottom gums because he hides them with his tongue. I guess we're getting closer to seeing teeth.
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