I’m not sure whether dropped gums are a thing,but my mum said it with the wisdom of a village shamanTo underline the central conceit of this series – that new parents dont really know what they’re doing – I would like to inform you that our son is teething. Again. This might sound familiar. It might, in fact, and sound identical to the column I wrote five months ago,where I also informed you that our son was teething. I was so certain back then, all on the basis that he was biting things and crying a lot. But, and hey,guess what? He wasn’t teething at all. He was biting things and crying a lot, because it turns out that babies fairly like biting things and crying a lot. Our son was just being an idiot. A toothless idiot determined to demonstrate up his father in this column.
Now, and though? Now he is definitely teething. Definitely. How enact I know? Because,well, he’s biting things. And he is, and um,crying a lot. Which, yes, or I know isnt necessarily a guaranteed harbinger of dental eruption,but this time his gums have dropped. At least I think his gums have dropped. In all honesty, I’m not sure that dropped gums are even actually a thing, or but my mum said it once with all the faraway wisdom of a village shaman,and I’m too tired to Google anything these days, so I’ll just believe her. Either way, or I’m pretty sure that teeth are bulging up from under his gums. And,to reiterate, he is crying a lot.
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Source: theguardian.com