AIBU to refuse my mother-in-law keeping my daughter's first tooth?

I'd no more keep first teeth than first toenail clippings, yuk!

Oh God, maybe there are people who actually do that.

Losing a first tooth is a milestone, there’s a sense that time is passing and you can maybe capture this one moment, make a mark in time, by keeping the newly shed shiny tooth. You can’t- the tooth dies, the child grows up, and no adult in their right mind wants their own baby teeth! Don’t try and preserve these moments, just enjoly them fully at the time, and then move on!

Hold up, she has her dc’s teeth yet thinks she should take YOUR dc’s teeth? When she, as the mother, kept HER dc’s teeth? Bonkers.

Cant lie, I have multiple puppy teeth from my current dogs, but never found former dog’s teeth. I also have a bracelet made from my horse’s tail, but I think this is pretty standard.

If keeping teeth is weird, how come so many people retain relative’s ashes? My dad’s and both pil’s are in the house.

I always used to get my kids to write a letter to the tooth fairy and then sealed it in an envelope with the tooth. It makes me laugh to think my kids will be clearing out my crap one day when I'm gone and be like wtaf mum when they find these 😂

I’ve kept my DD’s teeth, she’s 9, I don’t know where the teeth actually are though 😂
Your MIL is overstepping, being creepy and entitled.
I thank my lucky stars reading these posts that I’m no contact with my MIL.

She has no right to pull it out, that’s just weird.

I wouldn’t be letting her keep it either. I do have a few of my DC’s baby teeth knocking around but I accept it’s weird to keep them so when I next come across them I will probably throw them away 😳

Hands up to having all of my son's milk teeth, though no idea where. YANBU your MIL doesn't get to have them.

You are obviously saving their teeth, to give them back as a gift?! I have questions.

1. Why is it obvious that you would keep bits of your child's body? Do you think we should all be doing this? Or that we just do, obviously?
2. Do you also keep all their hair and nail clippings then?
3. Do you think a gift of teeth is...ok?

No they don't. My DD is mid 40s and her baby teeth are still fine in their silver box.

I still have her hospital bracelet and some hair from her first hair cut.

Other than Jeffry Dahmer, who keeps teeth? What are you going to do with them, make them into a necklace ? Maybe people will create a set of thier own false teeth for when they get old

Of course ynbu. You mil is horrible. I'd avoid seeing her now until the tooth has fallen out

I still have my daughter's and she's in her 40s. I don't really know what to do with them now tbh.

I can’t imagine your dc will want their teeth! Tbh, I find the whole notion of keeping teeth a bit strange but even stranger to hand them over to the child as an adult. Each to their own obviously though.

That said, dh did save the dc’s teeth. No idea where they are but I know he never offered them to them.

I think it’s much more common than it appears on here. Most of my friends that I know of have kept at least their kids’ first baby tooth. My mum still has mine and I’m fairy certain she’s not planning to murder me! It’s normal to keep your child’s first teeth and locks of their hair, and do things like watch them sleep or stare a photos of them for ages. All of which would of course be creepy as hell if you were doing them to anyone other than your child! I’ve even kept my first-born’s bit of dead umbilical cord that gets clipped at birth and falls off after a few days. I’ve definitely been told I’m gross for that one!

They do last, I have my 16yr olds baby teeth and they are in perfect condition. Teeth can remain intact for 1000s of years.

I think your username should be the darkside themoon or even the Parksideofthemoon?, just in case you do decide to be a serial killer and have a secret stash of bodies....minus the teeth trophies 😬😳🤭🤣

This is something my MIL would want to do and it makes me angry just thinking about it! I’ve never heard of anyone pulling someone’s tooth out…that’s weird! And how dare she just assume she can keep it! She wanted to keep her own children’s teeth, so surely she’d realise this is something you would want to keep. Hugely overstepping.

Me too, also in a jewellery box.

Where do people get the audacity….. tell her to bugger off. Your kid, your keepsake. The cheek of her

I have one of those small jewellery bags of my daughter’s teeth, quite disgusting actually. No idea why I’ve kept them.

100% yeah 😅

If mine had tried this on she would have regretted it. No one should pull a child’s teeth out when it’s going to drop out naturally - only a dentist should take a tooth out!

And to claim it as hers - well, I posted on another thread that if MIL had taken my DC behind my back to get their first shoes and had the photo taken etc, I would have binned the certificate, put the shoes away as spares, and taken my DS myself the following weekend. Some called that insane - I call it setting down a boundary.

I have DS’s teeth. He’s 23.

I am already aware that it’s odd.

I find teeth really interesting. I have a jar of animal teeth too.

DP keeps the shed (shedded?) skin from our pets. It makes him happy.

No current interest in being a serial killer. I don’t have the time and I’m not fit enough to dig holes.

I've kept all my child's teeth and as a kid I kept all my cat's kitten teeth, plus any stay whiskers I found. I used to think maybe I'd have her cloned one day. The cat not the child. As I'm writing this I'm starting to see it does give off nutter vibes.

DH has just reminded me I’ve kept our DSs’ baby teeth. Not thought about them for years but I know where they are!

Keeping them was definitely a thing - you could get christening gifts of a tooth box.