Recently, Olivia has started to dribble. A lot.
Quite often, there's a damp ring of drool on her t-shirts, which is neither particularly aesthetically pleasing - not that she particularly cares, of course - nor very nice to wear. She's been sticking her mitts into her face at every available opportunity - and then wiping the slobber all over her mush. When she does deign to take the dummy, she seems to be pushing it to one side quite a lot of the time.
She's also been a little on the cranky side, though we couldn't, hand on heart, say that this has been more than normal. She still has plenty of smiles and perhaps this is nothing, but it could be the start of teething. K___'s mum and dad were down this weekend, and Grandma thinks she saw a white dot below the gum on the lower right. Perhaps this is the first tooth?
Apparently K___ got her milk teeth at about this time and was a bit of a mare. My parents say that I and my youngest brother sailed through teething, but that E___, the middle brother, was a right old mess, red raw from the waist down.
"Red raw from the waist down"? Eh..? This is the first I've ever heard of teething causing problems down below, but apparently it's quite common. It's because the babies are swallowing so much drool that it changes the PH of their stools, making them acidic. Nice..!
Well, we'll just have to wait and see, I suppose. We have thought she was teething before and proved wrong and it may be so this time also.
teething is a great excuse. greggy was grumpy at nursery today, so we all shook our heads knowingly and said "teething", apart from Phil who said "just like his dad"! It's the very small person's equivalent of "just showing off because you're tired".
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