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What's the most PFB embarrassing moment you've had?

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Giantwaterbottle · 31/08/2021 20:46

I remember mine and physically cringe. DS1 is very bright, learned to walk and talk early and had a good vocabulary. So bright and developmentally at the top end (younger DS slower on all counts but both totally normal) but not exceptional.

Being shown round a lovely nursery and I said on more than one occasion how he was "really very smart" and that the doctor had said how clever he was (local GP had said she's very good speech wise and health visitor had said similar.

I cringe so hard every time I think about it. He goes to that nursery and whenever I see the head who showed us around I just think about how much of a wanker I must have seemed 😭😫😆

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Mildmanneredmum · 25/05/2026 15:30

Peoniesandpeaches · 01/09/2021 08:13

[quote Kanaloa]@sweetgingercat

I realise I’m going to sound very stupid, but how do the teeth help cure a disease? Do you save them in case you get a disease then they’re used, or do you donate them for people to use in research? I’ve searched baby teeth diseases but it just brought up a bunch of pages about baby teeth being removed because of decay 😂[/quote]
Baby teeth contain stem cells. Almost all other cells in the body have specialized jobs but stem cells can adapt and become any type of cell the body needs at that time. People store stem cells in case of disease or injury as studies show it can, for instance, help with organ and tissue regrowth but baby teeth unless they have been extracted by a dentist and stored by a donor bank are useless as the blood supply to them is dead.

Not sounding stupid at all. For an adult, when my dentist had extracted one of my teeth he asked if they could keep it and use it for research.

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