Pay attention to your child's first tooth and always ask the question "How old is your baby?" is something that any mother will think about. Let us explore to answer this question.
How old is the baby teething? - The question of many interested mothers
Newborn babies have no teeth in their mouth, on average, up to 6 months, babies start their first tooth, 12 months have about 6 teeth and up to 24 months will have a full tooth of 20 teeth, 10 in maxilla and 10 in lower jaw.
The teething time of babies varies physically, some 4.5-month-old babies have teething, but also many babies are invited by about 1 year old to appear their first tooth. However, mothers do not worry, children only need teething within the first year of life is still completely developing normally.
The order of teething babies will be as follows:
Teething babies several months old
4 middle incisors of upper and lower jaw: 5-8 months
Next, 4 side incisors: 7-10 months
First 4 molars: 12-16 months
After that, 4 canines: 14-20 months
Finally, 4 2nd molars: 20-32 months
Signs of teething babies
The time when babies are about to teething, there are some characteristic signs that parents can easily recognize as follows:
Children often drool
Teething babies several months old
The teething process stimulates the amount of saliva secreted in the baby's mouth cavity. At this time, the mother can wear a bib on the neck, regularly wipe the chin area, the armpit of the neck to limit the risk of drooling.
Children with a cough do not show signs of fever
Excessive drooling when an infant is about to teething can also cause the baby to cough, but not with a fever.
Redness appears around the chin
Drool can also cause a sensitive skin on the face, especially the mouth and neck area, to get red.
The time of teething babies will prepare for the new stages later (children learn to eat solids, babies switch from breastfeeding to bottle feeding ...). This is also the time when a child's immune system has certain changes that cause some pathogenic bacteria to enter the body. Therefore, when preparing to teething children will have signs of low fever.
Inciting to cry, stop feeding
Teething babies several months old
The painful, swollen sensation when the first baby teeth pop up can make babies more uncomfortable and lazy to breastfeed than usual.
Fingers and handles
Babies that are about to teething will constantly put their hands or any objects they can hold in their mouths to nibble to reduce the itchy gums.
How to care for teething babies
Teething babies several months old
Before the baby's teeth appear, the mother will see that the baby's gums are red and swollen, have a low fever, making the baby lazy to eat, cry, and lose weight. At this point, the mother should take care of, comfort the baby, change the diet, replace it with powder, milk, and dilute porridge to suit the baby.
If the fever is over 38.50 C, the mother can give fever-reducing medicine, but as directed by the doctor.
Or, if your baby has thin, viscous stools 3-4 times / day for about 3-7 days. At that time, the mother should pay attention, if the amount of feces and the amount of water is low, there is no need to rehydrate, still give normal food. However, if the stools are watery, and if they go outside many times, they should take the baby to the hospital.
Good oral hygiene for the baby.
After eating, baby should drink a little dessert water, or use a soft cloth to wipe teeth, or brush teeth. Should do regularly, many times a day for the baby.
Babies may itch their gums, love to suck their fingers, and bite solid objects. The mother should let the baby play with soft, round-shaped toys. Square-to-sharp toys can easily hurt your baby's gums, which are very harmful to your baby's teething, or you should replace your child's daily toys with pears, apples, or small carrots.
We hope this article will be useful for mothers who have a baby until the teething point or not yet, but still need to prepare for the smoothest teething process.
-Ele Luong-
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