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?!

Stickytoffee
I will probably keep one and put in his memory book, but keeping them all?! And handing them to a future partner is crazy

I've seen men that look like that in Shetland vindscreenviper.

They were the village hunks too!

I don't find pearly white, clean little teeth to be in the same category as vomit or feaces. Funny that....

The teeth dont stay pearly white long once they are no longer attached to a living body.

When I found my baby white teeth in a trinket box many years later, they stank and were discoloured. Keep them though if you want that kind of memory.

I kept them for dc1-3. Then dc4 lost a tooth and I realised I no longer knew whose were whose . So I binned the lot!

They're great aren't they Mitzy, they are called Fugglers (and are made by a lady somewhere in Kent I think)
The teeth are just plastic so don't have nightmares about them

Yes handing them to a future partner is crazy! Every time I see my MIL she gives me something that she has been keeping from my DH's childhood. She says she knows if she gives it to him he will chuck it straight in the bin. I don't know what I'm supposed to do with this stuff though! Luckily she didn't keep his baby teeth!!!
At the moment I have my DD's baby teeth in a little box and every time a new one falls out I get the old ones out and we try to arrange them into a little smile. Keeps me and DD amused for 5 minutes!

I've got my children's teeth - no smell?

Yes mine had discoloured and stank too- DS's will be going down the loo!

Weird and gross. Having said that, whenever my beloved cat Perkins shed a whisker, I would put it in a china pot on my fireplace. He died over fifteen years ago but i still have his whiskers.

And that's not at all weird or gross

I'd save James Norton's hair clippings.

And Jamie Dornan's toenails.

If you do decide to do this, I implore you to tell your children. Got the fright of my life when I opened an old earing box at my Mum's house to find it filled with tiny teeth!

But what about the tooth fairy . they have to stay hidden!

My mum kept my first few baby teeth in her jewellery box. A year or two later, we were burgled and you can guess what was stolen... I would have paid good money to see the look on the thief's face when they opened the box expecting to see diamonds and pearls!

My DS isn't old enough yet, but I think I'll keep hold of his teeth and yes, I've kept his umbilical cord

not for me - grim.

I have my DD baby teeth now 19 and she still thinks is weird and thinks it's gross so won't keep them in her keepsake memory box.

I've got some of my own with my childhood trinkets in the loft. They've aged OK. I thought it was quite a traditional thing to do. Ds got lots of tooth pots at his Christening.

I suppose that years ago in large families, everything would have been handed down rather than personal to each child, so teeth would have been a more personal souvenir?

My mum has mine and I will definitely want to keep DS's. I'm a dentist though...
I still have his umbilical stump, that's weirder.

I kept my dcs teeth but after 3 sets of milk teeth I've just got a macabre selection of wee stumpy teeth. I discovered one day that some brat cherub had got int them and muddled them all up. I should really ditch them, right?! sentimental and maudlin alert

In our house the tooth fairy takes them from the pillow and puts them in the special box we save them in. My mum did exactly that with mine. And having never discussed it with anyone in RL, I had never realised that other people thought it was weird to do that - I just thought it was normal. But clearly my perspective is distorted because my mum is a bit of a hoarder and also has the plait of hair she had cut off when she was a teenager (now 70 years ago) and her gallstones in a little pot. What am I thinking following her lead in the matter of teeth?

It never occurred to me to keep their umbilical cords! I wish I had though!
How do you keep them? Just in a plastic bag? Do you have to do anything to the umbilical cord before storing it?

Yes I never realised it was weird to keep baby teeth until my DD was showing her grandma (my MIL) and I saw the look on MIL's face! Funny thing is my MIL is a real hoarder and I'm not!

It's all dried out and just wrapped in a tissue. It doesn't smell. Maybe it's mummified!

MitzyLeFrouf
And that's not at all weird or gross grin

Are you seriously suggesting me keeping Perkin's shed whiskers is weirder or grosser than wanting to keep James Norton's hair clippings or Jamie Dornan's toenails?