Now that I have Teeth
After the months of continuous drool finally, there are teeth!
Early in the teething process the cotton bibs were getting so wet it was best to switch to the bibs with the plastic back. I could not keep up with the laundry to continuously wash a daily load of bibs because they are wet with drool. Not to mention my daughter onesie underneath bib was constantly getting soaked with the bib.
Now onto hygiene, with these little teeth clearly there must come so responsibility to keep these little teeth clean, right? Right.
As soon as your baby has teeth, clean your babies teeth and gums twice a day with a wash cloth. At about a 1 year to 18 months of age, you should start using a soft baby toothbrush and a small dab of toothpaste that does not have flouride in it.
Obviously this is a fight to get the wash cloth in my daughter’s mouth to clean. In addition to the entry struggle I think she now realizes these little pegs are sharp and piercing and thinks that it it hilarious to bite down.
I find that cleaning her teeth is easiest integrating with her morning and evening grooming.
Did you find that your daughter had diarrhea during the teething process? DS’s stools have been looser for a little while now (he’s teething now) and I wonder if that could be related? (He’s 6.5 months)
We have been fortunate, my daughter has not experienced much diarrhea, crankiness mostly drool. So much drool that I switched all of her bibs to the plastic back bib.
Then again my daughter has known to become constipated, due to her own lack of fluid consumption (nothing cayro syrup has not fixed).
lol yeah, DS is a drooling machine!!!! Every single thing he looks at goes in his mouth (or he tries anyway). And every day when i pick him up from day care he has gone through at least 4 bibs. It is hard to keep up with that, as you mentioned. I often will just handwash and hang to dry.
My advice to any expectant/new mom is to STOCK UP on bibs…. and definitely invest in super thick ones and/or the ones with the plastic back.