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If her gums are swollen, it's coming soon!!

E didn't get her first tooth until 12 months! Her gums had been swollen for months. I thought something was wrong. But her two bottom teeth came in and then her two top teeth two weeks later. A month later 3 more teeth popped up but now she's 15 months and were wondering if her molars are ever going to come in!!! They will, of course but it's frustrating when it seems like teething lasts for so long.

I soooo feel your pain! Tor didn't get his first teeth until he was 10 months old and they took a couple weeks to fully break through. We were just like you and blamed all f his behavior from 3-7months on potential teething. After that I started assuming he would never teethe! He has four teeth now. The bottom two came in at 10 months and the top two at 12. His top two teeth took a lot longer to break through than the bottoms and it took a long time before we saw any white bumps. I hope little H cuts them soon and is feeling better.

It took about 2 weeks from when his gums were really swollen and he was super cranky for his teeth to cut through. I hope it happens soon for H!

ETA the first thing you'll see is this weird dark line on the gum--a day or two later, you'll be able to feel the sharp points of the tooth. Then out it comes!

DS didn't get teeth until a little after he turned 8 months old. His gums were way swollen and I could see the tooth mounds for a few weeks before the first tooth finally poked through.

We were lucky, A had two pop up over night with only that one night of bad hysterical wakeups. I think she is working on more now and they are taking longer. I wouldn't be surprised if H's showed up tomorrow.

I hate to say that this feeling does not go away anytime soon. P, who is almost 17 months, has been SERIOUSLY teething (fevers, drooling, fingers on gums, biting, screaming, clingy) for nearly 2 months. And still; nothing.

It's infuriating and like you we blame EVERYTHING on teeth. I can't wait for these damn things to cut through.

Oh, and to add, with P's first few teeth, all of the sudden she just had them. Like, was teething like crazy and the it just popped out.

A grew four shiny pearly whites last week - all at once! She was a happy teether actually and didn't scream/cry but did wake up/drool all the time. Advil was our best friend

It sounds like teeth are right around the corner for H, you'll probably notice a little white tip poking through over the next few days, then the rest of the tooth follows pretty quick!

Teething SUCKS!!! the bad news is that once the tooth pokes through, it can still take for-freaking-ever for the dang chomper to actually come in. I swear, my LO's teeth move at the speed of molasses.

Do you have any cool/frozen teethers? Those helped LO more than Tylenol, as did a cool, wet washcloth. Sometimes just putting my finger in her mouth and gently massaging her gums helped too. Good luck!

Bs popped out overnight!

I vote for Tuesday

@PrincessBaby: we've been proclaiming LO's top tooth as "coming soon" since the 4th of July.. ha! It actually is finally cutting, as of this morning I could see white. It's so hard to know. With his bottom two, they bugged him when they actually cut through and then again when they seemed to almost double in height. Hope hers comes down soon!

DS did not get his first tooth until 2 weeks before his 1st birthday. Other than a very low fever, he didn't have any signs and we just woke up one day to a tooth. That was how all of his subsequent teething has gone. They just appear.