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Teething
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begin cutting teeth at a variety of ages. Some babies can cut their
first tooth as early as 4 months old, while others will not have
a first tooth until they are 9 or 10 months old. While parents may
begin to wonder why their baby seems to be taking longer than others,
it really is an unimportant factor and can have benefits. If you
breast feed, for example, and your baby doesn’t cut teeth
until late, consider yourself lucky—you are not getting bitten
yet.
There is, however, one major drawback for babies that do not cut
teeth for a long time. This is the food they are missing out on.
By the time a baby is old enough to eat solids (baby food), they
are usually beginning to want whatever the parents are eating. While
you can’t give these foods to your baby yet, the desire to
have the food only grows until they cut teeth and are able to eat
with you. If a baby doesn’t cut teeth until later than average,
they will miss out on some foods that babies with teeth are getting
to enjoy.
Aside from the foods your baby may miss out on, though, there is
no problem with cutting teeth early or late. Regardless of when
a baby cuts teeth, it will still be a painful process, and both
the parents and the baby will likely be miserable for at least a
few days with every tooth that grows in. The best thing to do to
alleviate the pain is to give your baby acetaminophen combined with
ibuprofen, along with application of a numbing gel or tablet and
let them have frozen teethers or anything else that seems to help
relieve the pain. Letting them chew on teethers and things of this
nature is a good idea, because it can help the tooth come in more
quickly, and once the tooth breaks the skin the baby is often in
a lot less pain.
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