Teeth, Teeth Everywhere You Look!

Remember how Max's first two teeth showed up so early?  I was really hoping that we would get a nice long break before he had anymore break through.  (I'm still nursing!)  So much for that hope!

On March 24 (5 days after Max turned 7 months old) he had another tooth break through.  Remember when I said last time that I felt bad because the tooth had totally caught me off guard?  Yeah, well, that happened again.

Max had been fussy and there was lots of drooling going on so I thought that maybe he was teething.  I was watching the spot for the front two teeth like a hawk!  Well, all of a sudden, on the 24th, I look in his mouth and see that he has a tooth on top!!! But not in the spot where I'd been looking, no, he had broken his right incisor tooth (the tooth next to the front teeth)!

HUH?!?!

I couldn't believe it!  AGAIN, I had let a tooth totally sneak up on me.  So, being the anxious over-worrier mom that I am, I am worried because teeth are supposed to come in a certain order and this tooth defied that order.  Did this mean that he was missing the teeth that were supposed to come first?  Did this mean something was wrong with Max?!  After my always calm and collected husband did some research ala Google, we determined that while this wasn't typical, it was still okay.

What was unsettling was the additional information we learned which was that babies who typical cut an incisor first, while most likely cut the other incisor second and then will come the middle teeth.  And there were pictures of this - the babies seriously looked like vampires.  (Google it!)  Oh no, I worried, Max is going to look like a vampire baby.  It was past time for him to get pictures taken at a photography studio and I DID not want that look documented so I quickly made the appointment for the next day in hopes that we would beat that next tooth coming in and I started checking his mouth like hourly (I know, I'm silly) to see if I could see that second incisor coming in.

...wait for it...

And AGAIN, a tooth showed up out of the blue.  (This is embarrassing)  The NEXT DAY!  Yup, on the 25th he broke another tooth.  But not the incisor I had been so dreading, no...His left front tooth had broken through.  SERIOUSLY!?  Here I had been waiting and watching for a certain tooth to emerge but yet again, I was off track.  So now he was completely off the order of how a baby cuts their teeth.  I was relieved a little because now the space between the teeth was only 1 tooth versus 2 like I had been dreading (Dracula).

3 days later, on the 28th, his left incisor made it's debut.  (His right front tooth joined the pack a couple weeks later and finished off his toothy smile.)

Let me recap this for you - - 3 teeth all in the space of 5 days.  My son is an angel.  Sure, he was a little fussy and he liked chewing on the frozen teether I gave him after the first tooth showed up.  But overall his mood was great, he slept as good as he normally does (still wakes up 3-4 times after going to bed around 8 pm until 8 am), and there was no fever.  Whew!  And just like that my son went from having those cute 2 bottom teeth to having a mouth full of teeth.

Dang.  He's 7 months old, has 6 teeth, and my goal is to nurse him to a year?  We'll see how that goes.


I really wanted to capture the teeth but found out it's really hard to do that when Max needs to have his mouth open AND be still for the picture to be any good.

 This picture was taken when he had 2 teeth.  You can sort of see the incisor on the left and the middle tooth on the right.

 Again, look closely and you can see the incisor.

 Looking all rolly polly in this outfit

Cute cute cute

 Playing on the floor with Hayden

 Brittany sent me this picture at work, I couldn't believe it - MAX IS SLEEPING IN A CAR!  He never does that for us. 

 Showing off his bottom teeth which will no longer be in the spotlight once the little ones that have poked through get bigger

 Profile - it hit me when looking at this today that his face is starting to move from away from that little baby face toward a toddler face

 Hard at work, playing

Getting bigger in the car seat, his toes are getting closer and closer to reaching the edge.  He had his feet crossed and I wanted to capture it but when I got out my camera, he stopped.

A couple things about Max lately:

1. He is still talking himself to sleep
2. He still likes to suck a little on his fingers or his thumb.  He doesn't seem to have a preference over which one.
3. He's noisy sometimes when he's nursing because he will "talk" while nursing.  It's funny.
4. I no longer have to spend time burping him after nursing because when he sits up now he burps pretty much immediately on his own.