Saving Baby Teeth

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DD16 was talking about her baby teeth and I have just given her them all back, each wrapped up labeled with the date lost.

She was pleased but has asked if it is normal to save them, and I honestly don't know...

YABU - no not normal at all, what were you thinking of woman!

YANBU - that's a perfectly reasonable and ordinary thing to do, nothing weird to see here!

(Have name changed so if DD sees this won't find my posting history)

My mum has her own first tooth and her brother's. She has a couple of others that she thinks might belong to me or one of my siblings. My own dd lost her first a couple of weeks ago. I have it. No idea what to do with it.

My mum kept mine, I remember finding them in a drawer and being Extremely Puzzled as I knew the tooth fairy had taken them. She had them at least until I was a teenager but god knows what happened to them - hope she's binned them.

It must be a very hard thing to get rid of in the moment, it's such a rite of passage and we are inclined to worship the bits that drop off our precious babies. I'm sure I'll be equally weird when it happens for my daughter.

I always thought you keep the first one that's it? Hence the first curl first tooth boxes you can get? We will keep the first one, that's it.

My mother saved one of mine and put it into a creepy little fairy charm. She gave it me for Christmas attached to a silver charm bracelet. Yes, I still have it and no, I won't be doing the same for my children.

I also have one of my wisdom teeth. It was growing at a weird angle and has lovely twisty roots. I asked if I could keep it and my dentist said yes. The dental nurse put it in a little bag with a fairy on the front...I was about 28.

I worked for a homeless team dealing with temporary accomodation amongst other things before I had dc. Got a phone call one day to say that a tenant had found a box of teeth when they moved into a flat. Went around to find they had indeed found a box full of what looked like adult teeth, belonging to more than one person as it turned out (lots of the same teeth and more than a mouthful). Our theories ranged from a serial killer to a dentist who liked taking their work home.

I know lots of people keep the cord clamp thing when the stub falls off, but she said that was disgusting.

I have dd's. It wasn't kept intentionally but my dad died just before she was born and then she was a terrible sleeper. Found it about a year later and thought, it's lasted this long, might as well keep it. Less disgusting than I expected really, no smell or anything.

I'm 50. My mum has a box with a lock of my hair, my first tooth and my hospital band.

I have the same for DS and all his baby teeth

A friend of mine has both first teeth of her children in a necklace that she wears every day

With apologies to everyone who was repulsed by this, it seems that whilst it may not be entirely normal, it isn't particularly unusual either

Thanks for sharing

My mum saved mine, she’d put each one in tinfoil (tooth fairy can see then shining) and put then in a candle stick holder. After going to New Orleans it gives me voodoo vibes.

I saved my own teeth every time they fell out and put them in a little box. A few years later found the box empty and DM had thrown them away! I was quite upset she told me I was disgusting for keeping them.