Is this teething? Surely too soon?

[SquidgersMummy]

My DD is 13wks - lots of chewing her fist and fingers and being grizzly and a bit clingy but can be distracted. No temp, feeding well, good weight and nappies etc. DH convinced she's teething ....is it not too soon for that. Some dribbling but not every day. May just be tired as she hasn't really figured out naps yet. ??

Thanks xx

My DD produced her first at 4m and my DS at 3. Some DCs are apparently born with them, so it could be.

It could well be, my dd1 had her first tooth at 10.5 weeks with all the same symptoms you describe.

My poor baby has 6 at 17 weeks! I didn't notice any symptoms for the first couple though.

belinda
my DS was like that at 7 weeks, I presumed it was teething but he didn't get a tooth til he was 7 months

He's quite pissed off about them, magoo!

DD2 got her first at 6 weeks, second at 5months

Chewing the fist is perfectly a normal developmental step which is usually not indicative of teething. Babies use their mouths to explore things, and the first thing that gets explored is the hands (obviously, since they need to see what those feel like and how they work before they can grab anything else to stick in their gobs!) The excess of drooling is partly the immaturity of their swallowing mechanics, but also a protective device so that any thing suspicious that does end up in the mouth is washed out, or at least is given a good cleansing by the anti microbial properties of saliva. I've had people insisting my DS has been teething since he was six weeks old when he started doing this. I just smile and nod. He's now five months and still as toothless as a little old man.

What Elphaba said.

My dd1 was born (before due date) with a wee blister in her lower gum. Midwife said "oh her teeth will be in soon!". I thought it was rubbish. But when she was 10 weeks we took her to meet her great Grannie and she bit so hard she drew blood!