AIBU to keep my DCs' baby teeth?

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Been lurking for many months, but this is my first post, so I'm feeling properly solemn and a little bit scared.

Took DS1 and DS2 for dental checkups today. During pleasantries with the (reasonably hot) dentist, I mentioned that I have kept all DS1's baby teeth. Reasonably hot dentist's reaction: shock, followed by revulsion.

DS2 hasn't lost any baby teeth yet, but I fully intend to keep his as well. Is this wrong? (NB - I didn't hang on to umbilical cord stumps or positive pregnancy tests. Are teeth worse?)

My mum kept one of mine in a little glass drop on a necklace also found all my baby teeth in a pot when I was little. That's when I knew there wasn't a tooth fairy

You'll all at me but I have my pregnancy tests I kept 2/3 because when I was about 12, my mum showed me her pregnancy test (in a food bag) that she'd taken when she got pregnant with me. I thought it was just fascinating and I'm quite sentimental about mine. I'll be keeping my DS's baby teeth too. I'm not one for keeping cord stumps or anything either, though.

Daley, I have DD's test. Found it the other week when I was rooting for something. I shouted her down to show her but in typical 16 year old girl fashion that was 'pretty minging Mother'

I admit that I did hang on to my pregnancy tests until both DCs had safely arrived! Don't know why; I suppose it was superstition of some sort (although different from the old wives' tales superstitions that made MiL such fun during my first pregnancy...).

DS1 is 12 and takes a size 7 shoe. So I quite like having teeny things that remind me of how teeny he was .

My dad's baby teeth are in the possession of my sister. MY granny made them into earrings and left them to my sis in her will.

She had to wear them to the funeral out of respect.

Grim.

DD's not old enough to have lost any yet, but I expect I'll keep them. It seems wrong to throw part of your baby away.

I do have her umbilical cord in a box upstairs though, so I don't suppose keeping her teeth is any stranger than that.

At least it's not just me

Ovary did it not rot? Sorry if that sounds offensive, just curious :)

I have all of their teeth. It's common, you can even buy special little boxes to keep them in with first tooth etc written on them.

DD is too young to have lost any teeth but I will be keeping her teeth.

My mum died when I was little and when I got her jewellery box at 18 I found a pot of my teeth. It meant a lot to me and gave me a connection to her. I still have them and they remind me that she loved me.

Not saying that you don't love your DCs if you don't keep them of course!

Dd made me promise once that when I was dying I would give her all her baby teeth back. She was really worried about them getting lost or given to someone else.

Me dying was fine though apparently.

The cord? It's all shriveled and black but doesn't smell. It's rested on some of that cotonwolly/spongey stuff you get in earring boxes so maybe that's helped?

i keep on coming across little envelopes with teeth in addressed to 'the toof faree pleese may I have £2.20p' or words to that effect. Can't bring myself to chuck them but with x4 DC they are starting to take over my sock drawer.

My Mum didn't keep mine, but once I realised there was no tooth fairy, I kept the rest of mine, in a small piggy bank. My Mum found them, years later and I was persuaded to chuck them. They were all a bit minging by then!

I knew someone who had her first tooth mounted in a ring (for her finger).

Wow! I've kept my children's teeth, just like my mum kept mine. I loved having mine back as an adult - my children find them fascinating.
I've never considered keeping their baby teeth as odd.

I have my ds's teeth in a little tin

That reminds me, I did keep some of my puppy's teeth (the ones I found, he swallowed a fair few!) but I have no idea where they are now.

I did keep DD's stump. However, the dog got into my bedroom one day and I just found the plastic clip on the floor....

sorry but it's gross!

I have DDs. Although I'm very tempted to send at least some to be part of this amazing sculpture by artist Gina Czarnecki: palaces.org.uk/

It is amazing and she's really into mythology of milk teeth as well as ethical issues about medical uses of human tissue. She takes old teeth too!

One of the things I found when we were clearing my mother's house was two little pots with mine and my sister's baby teeth. There was also a lock of my sister's hair, though not mine.

I remembered I had a little envelope with a picture of the toothfairy on when I had an extraction as a child, which the dentist returned to me in the envelope - this was in the little pot of teeth.

I have my baby curls and my sisters and I have my ds's too

I still have my DCs' teeth. Or most of them anyway as one or two came out at school.

DCs and I think it's a nice connection to when they were younger. They are just dry, hard little things, no gore or anything like that and they are in a little pot in my bedside cabinet.

And yet normally I'm not the sentimental sort. DCs are now 13 and 9 and have known for ages that the Tooth Fairy is either Me or DP, depending on who remembered.

DS, aged 9, now just comes up to me with a tooth and suggests a swap for the money . As he currently has 2 that are wobbly, he's asked mo once or twice if he would still get the "tooth money", mercenary child that he is, all delivered with a big cheesy grin.

I have my 3 dc's, not 100% sure whose are whose mind you. No idea what I shall do with them !

Can't believe people think this is weird! I have every tiny tooth in my jewellery box!