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Hello! I was certain last week that Sarah was teething because one of the rare chances I got to feel around in her mouth, the gum felt SQUISHY like a tooth was getting ready to come through. Couldn’t feel the tooth, it just felt like the gum was “preparing” itself. Soooo, today I get a chance to feel around again and that same spot now feels HARD like there’s no teeth in sight?!?! What’s the deal? I know that teeth come down and then back up and down again… but you’d think the gum would stay “squishy” regardless if the tooth was THERE. Does anyone know what I’m talking about? Does anyone know what I mean when I say “squishy?” Did I imagine that her gum felt squishy or has this happened to anyone else???
Thanks!
Oh, the perplexities of teething!
I don’t understand it either but I have certainly encountered squishy gums one day and hard the next with my teething babies. My very uneducated theory is that the gums get squishy after the teeth go back down because when they were pushing upward they sort of stretched out the gum somewhat. Is it possible to get eye teeth before any molars? The only place in her mouth that feels like there might be a tooth coming is her top left eye tooth!?! I know every child teethes differently…I just wish all 20 of them would come in ONE DAY! Wouldn’t that be nice?? I’d take 24 hours of misery to get the “teething guesswork” over with!
amy00132007-07-22 18:48:38It’s not the typical pattern to get the eye teeth before molars, but it does happen. I read that baby teeth can come in any order. Also the eye teeth take a long time to come in. I remember thinking Myles was cutting his for a few weeks and then they stopped bothering him and he cut four molars before the eye teeth started bothering him again. It’s very perplexing for mommies.
And frustrating too. 
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