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Finally, at 13 months, Riana is teething. Riana has always showed signs of teething ever since she was 5 months old. She’s had several cheek rashes. She drooled a lot. All these months, Ashwin and I have been speculating that her first tooth might pop up any day. This time we are certain that she is indeed teething. We can finally see the top of her bottom two teeth and feel the sharp edges! She’s drooling buckets and doesn’t seem to get tired of chewing! She enjoys her crackers and fig bars! Yummm…

Despite being reassured by all the people around me, the doctors and the dentists, part of me always wondered if my dear daughter will ever get her first tooth. I was beginning to worry. I am sure there are several parents like me who wonder if their child will ever get their first tooth. The truth is “yes”. As long as the child is otherwise hitting all physical and mental developmental milestones, there is nothing to worry about. Doctors say that children can begin teething as late as 18 months of age. Riana is 13 months old today and she is doing well. I am very glad that so far, teething hasn’t been a painful experience for her. Knock on wood…

Cheers

Riana is learning to walk and she’s been making some great progress in the past couple of days. She’s been able to pull herself up to the standing position quite easily for a while now, and slowly began to stand without any support whatsoever. Once she got the stage of standing on her own, we began coaxing her to walk while her hands were held.

Since then she’s gone from taking a couple of steps with support to taking half a dozen steps all by herself. With each confidence boosting step she tries harder to go farther. With the quick progression she’s making, it’s probably only weeks before she’ll be nicely walking around.

In one way I’d like her to be able to walk as soon as possible as with her crawling around, she’s exposing her hands to all of the germs that lie on the floor and then promptly putting her fingers in her mouth when she’s tired or hungry. If she’s walking, that immediately takes away one possible avenue of germs getting into her.

Now if we can work on her not chewing on everything and anything, we’d be in great shape.

Cheers