Comments | drdoug: First tooth!

drdoug

First tooth!

Feb 23, 2007 08:58

The baby has cut his first tooth! A lovely little lower-left incisor. Over the course of yesterday evening it went from barely detectable to pretty obvious. I got terribly excited and sent texts out in all directions. Clearly, no child has ever done anything so marvellous before, and I'm hugely pleased ( Read more... )

dentistry, **fixme-daffodil, baby

Comments 6

childeric February 23 2007, 11:47:07 UTC

crying, red cheeks, drooling, chewing a lot

God, being a baby so rocks. People would think it distinctly out of place if I did even half of those in public. Bah.

drdoug February 23 2007, 12:31:48 UTC

*laughs* I dunno - I've seen people do all of that and worse in clubs.

But you're right, he does get away with a lot. I mean, if you were to come round my house and make half the mess he does I'd be seriously annoyed.

childeric February 23 2007, 12:36:26 UTC

Aww, no! That's all my plans for an otherwise dull Friday night right out of the window! Killjoy or what?

drdoug February 23 2007, 12:44:22 UTC

Well, maybe I might relent if you can do a sufficiently cute and winsome smile - preferably accompanied by endearing gurgles and babbles - and promise to sleep for twelve hours solid between 7pm and 7am. (Not that he does the latter, but one can hope.)

custancia February 26 2007, 23:35:05 UTC

It's so wierd how babies learn to crawl backwards first! Ellie used to get so frustrated backing herself constantly into corners...
**FIXME sounds gorgeous - I'm getting ideas about a second just reading about him!

girl_patrick February 27 2007, 11:58:01 UTC

I can thoroughly recommend some herbal teething powders that I used extensively with Henry (didn't know about them with Maisy) called Ashtons & Parsons. You can get them at the chemist and they contain a herb called Amitriciana (or something like that).

They come in "wraps" and look alarmingly like a line of cocaine (so I'm reliably informed, of course) and you pour them straight onto the tongue. Not only do they help with the sore teeth they are a total god-send for the horrible drooly slurry-ish nappies that accompany teething.

BTW, don't panic about the backward crawling. Maisy used to reverse herself under furniture (particularly the coffee table) and get herself wedged all the time. Henry never did that. He went commando-style dragging himself along the floor and then moved straight to walking without ever really commanding proper crawling. Freak!

Patrick x