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My 4 1/2 month old daughter has been drooling and chewing a lot since around 3 or 3 1/2 months, but yesterday I noticed she's touching her left ear a lot. Parents.com suggests that since she isn't cranky or fussy and doesn't have a fever, that this is a sign of teething. How long (on average) until she will get her first tooth?

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BetsyB · Accepted Answer · 2009-12-15 15:34:02Z UTC

Here's a chart with average times the various teeth come in. However, this is something that varies wildly from child to child. I'm in a moms group where all the kids are 8-10 months; some have no teeth, some have 1 or 2, and a couple of them have 7-8 teeth. My son got his first two at 4.5 months, and now has 8 total.

My son also drooled for a couple of months before his teeth erupted. He did have a fever and fussed with some of them, but some of them have come in sneakily, with no real warning. It's definitely not an exact science.

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larcher · Answer 2 · 2009-12-15 15:29:21Z UTC

Sounds like it will be any day now. I'm not sure what the average is, but for our son it was about a month or so from the start of the heavy drooling to his first tooth (between 4 and 5 months old).

If you're brave enough to put a finger in her mouth, you might be able to feel a harder spot on her gums, or even a tiny bit of tooth sticking out that you can hardly see. The first ones usually show up right in the front.

DarwinsMom · Answer 3 · 2009-12-17 19:55:06Z UTC

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My son started the teething process a good 2 moths before eruption. Swelling gums, drooling, occasional pain, the hard bump. Sometimes the signs show minutes before, some times a lot longer.

answered Dec 17 at 19:55

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Phil Seller · Answer 4 · 2009-12-16 09:30:32Z UTC

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Definatly varies a lot my older son had all his teeth by 16 months and my 5 month old is cutting his 3rd. It took him about 2 weeks for the tooth to cut through after the initial signs of drooling and chomping on everything.

answered Dec 16 at 9:30

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Tammy · Answer 5 · 2009-12-16 14:44:47Z UTC

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Similar to BetsyB, experience from my moms groups is that it can vary greatly between children. Our daughter showed those signs around 4 months off and on as well, but only cut her first tooth at 8 months.

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answered Dec 16 at 4:37

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MrChrister · Answer 6 · 2009-12-15 16:06:14Z UTC

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My daughter didn't get a single tooth until she was more than a year old. She also doesn't have much in the way of hair, but she is beginning potty training and she isn't yet two.

answered Dec 15 at 16:06

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