Wanting to keep my child's baby teeth?

[Mummydearest85]

I know it's a bit gross. My mum kept mine and my brothers. I've got dd's in a pretty little box, hidden away. Aibu? Or just a bit weird?!

I am definitely keeping my dcs' first teeth. I feel bizarrely emotional about the fact that they're going to start falling out soon :(

Actually this isn't that odd. I read an article by someone who'd chosen to make a bracelet out of her dc's milk teeth.

I've kept all of my DD's individually wrapped with the date they fell out. So far she has only lost 8 but I had planned to continue. I hadn't thought what I would do with them just that it would be something nice to do

Amateur.

I keep scabs.

I have all of dd1's in a box. Dd2 has just lost her 4th so getting a nice little collection there too! Quite normal..

Mitzy

It is weird. However, I'm with the weirdos as I have all my dcs teeth in the little envelopes they went under their pillows in, in my bedside drawer.
I don't know what the hell I was thinking..and I don't know which teeth belong to which child, so I should really bin them. And yet, they're still there!

princess I have my dog's puppy teeth too. Glad it's not just me!

My dad kept all of my baby teeth and presented them too my - gift wrapped - on my 18th birthday.

I have four children and for ages I kept their teeth but somehow they all ended up mixed up together so I couldn't tell who they had come from.
When DD first went to the orthodontist, still quite young, there was some debate over a couple of her teeth where it was hard to tell if baby or adult tooth and I just couldn't remember. I mentioned to the orthodontist that I had this pack of mixed teeth and was unable to identify them.
DD spun round in the big chair and exclaimed to me: " I knew it, you're the tooth fairy!"
Orthodontist and nurse couldn't stop laughing.

If my parents presented me with a bag of my baby teeth I would fling them straight in the bin. So grim.

I kept mine! It was a bit gross actually when I think about it, bits of flesh and decay attached But I was a kid and liked collecting things! Not weird OP.

Dms got one if mine and one of my dsis wrapped up in a little tissue in her jewellery box. I remember a tooth coming out and then my my dm getting me to clean it with toothpaste "so it would be shiny for the tooth fairy" .

I just dont get it. You have an actual child to love and raise.

Keep it's baby teeth? Do you, while raising the child, look into the box of teeth and kiss them and stroke them lovingly and cry and lament at the child growing older? Ugh. It's fucking weird.

Do you keep the first puke? the first dirty nappy?

I've still got all the baby teeth from my 3 DC's, in my sock drawer, each individual tooth still wrapped in the tissue as prepped for the tooth fairy no idea why I've kept them though

Sothathappend, no, surprisingly I haven't kept the first puke or poo. I don't find pearly white, clean little teeth to be in the same category as vomit or feaces. Funny that....

It reminds me of Meet the Fockers where Mrs Focker keeps Ben Stiller's dried little foreskin in the family photo album.

I had a box of baby (and puppy!) teeth but the kids found it, were grossed out and made me get rid

I had a Malaysian midwife doing home visits after DS was born. His umbilical stump was taking a long time to drop off so she gave me some powder to speed the process up.

She told me that in her home region umbilical stumps were kept forever and did I want to keep DS's? Oh dear barftastic.

I don't keep baby teeth as I was traumatised at finding my own baby teeth that my mum had kept. My friend thinks it's really weird that I haven't kept them.

I'm keeping my DD's baby teeth! No idea why or what I'm going to do with them though!

Why not incorporate them into a scary lovely soft toy OP?

Totally weird.

As you were.

Are those real toys?!

I'm frightened

The hospital offered me DC's fallen-off umbilical stump. Politely declined, but I do have all the teeth.

Aw don't be frightened Mitzy...

I kept my first born's cord stump for far too long. My husband made me bin it. DC2'S went straight in the bin