Are these teeth?

[MrsMar]

ds is chewing everything frantically, so I assumed he's close to cutting his first tooth (he's 5.5 mo) but today I noticed two white things appearing in his upper jaw, right where his canine teeth will be (do children have canine milk teeth?) I thought the first teeth were usually the bottom or top incisors. Is ds a vampire? Would explain why he's awake all night !

I would think thats teeth. DD has just cut her first as well - a good sign is a sore bottom and stinking nappies

Hmmm no sign of a sore bottom, teeny bit read, I thought I was just a terrible mother and had left him in a wet nappy a bit too long. They do stink too, I thought that was because I've been introducing a couple of tastes of solid food. It's wierd that what look like canines are coming through first. I always thought it was the bottom ones first.

do you have any transylvanian relatives?

my nephew's canines came through before the front ones, he looked a bit odd (but cute) till the front ones came through, and they came through ok by the way - they fitted in the gap iyswim

My DS's teeth used to bob, iykwim. You'd see the bits of white, then they'd disappear. When the first tooth eventually (at 8 mo) appeared, it was heralded by a whacking great big red bulge - you couldn't miss it! But then, they're all different and they don't even come in a fixed order (unlike what the books will tell you).

My (6 mo) DTs seem to be the same as yours MrsMar...white bulges where their lower canines should be and also knawing on everything in sight...but particularly seem to be chewing on the sides of their mouths (i.e. where the said teeth are)...looks like we'll have little vampires together !

I thought my DS had teeth coming through when I saw the white spots. Phoned and texted all family and friends (as you do) to tell the good news. Few days later, still white spots. Week later, hmmm, still only white spots. Turns out they get calcium spots on their gums a few months before teeth come through.

LOL minouminou! I might have to do some research (btw, we had a cat called minou... it's french for pussycat, did you know?)

corriedale - I think ds' are about to bob too, one of the little white marks has gone.

Perhaps I won't be serving up those steaks to him yet plumb. they could well be calcium spots. I presume that's nothing to worry about? I haven't been feeding him bottles of golden syrup, honest!