First Tooth

Last night after careful examination of baby A's mouth while he was happily taking a bath, to my great joy I discovered our first tooth (well his really) that has come through the gum!!! Right away I felt like I needed to tell the whole world about it, called the in-laws, husband and a few girlfriends (those with kids of course, as I don’t think people in the stages of pre-kids will quite understand what you are going through completely!). The sad part was that I could not right away inform my parents that their fist Grandson has a brand new accessory now (that the in-laws promptly mentioned will sure BITE me soon). But today I was able to reach them via Skype and boast about our news.

Now, I have never experienced this before, and I do not remember when my first tooth cut in, so this was a first for me too. And the fact that this did not happen at daycare made me even happier. Oh the hardships of the full time working mom, sign.

The struggle before the event of last night was a long one, I might admit. Now it was not a completely sleepless night, baby A got up only 8 times, I think. But he was a true little tough guy, I didn't even know he was in pain. Mommy simply thought it is time to sleep train the baby, who has moved to his bed for, hmm, about half the night on really good nights. Only by morning when he would not nurse after waking up and would just want to put his head on my chest did I realize he was in pain, poor baby. Well, parents promptly administered him with homeopathic drops and he slept for another hour and a half happily.

I think we (baby, Mommy and Daddy) handled the first tooth night pretty smoothly. Have heard lots of horror stories and threats from everyone around on how tough it could be. We'll see how it goes from here, there is yet another tooth that is already making its way to the surface next to the first one, yikes!

P.S. Baby A is yet to show off his new tooth to Daddy. We tried all morning to check it out, but the little mouth was tightly shut, the lips were sealed, lol.