My daughter has decided to throw all rules about when a baby should get teeth and in what order and throw them right out the window.

She takes one look at a teething chart like the one below and says “No thanks. I’ll do it my way!!”

I was an early teether, I got my first tooth at just over 3 months old. My husband was a pretty typical teether getting his first tooth around 7 months old. Well, not my daughter. First 7 months went by, then 9 months and quickly we were approaching her first birthday and still looking at this adorable toothless grin.

Finally, about 3 days before her first birthday I saw her first little tooth poking through her gums. The second one was just a few days behind. I had been warned that late teethers tend to get a whole bunch of teeth all at once and it can be a nightmare. Not Maya. She continued to be a very slow teether and remarkably an easy teether (knock on wood). After those first two bottom teeth popped through that was the end of teething for a while. Until her first top tooth poked through about a month and a half later. Then we got to look at this silly grin.

Gotta love that single top tooth!!

Recently she has added two more top teeth, again at her take it slow pace. We were holding steady at 5 teeth until this past weekend. What did she decide to do next? Certainly not follow the rules that for sure! She decided to skip over the rest of her incisors and her cuspids for now and go straight to her first year molars. All four molars at once! The bottom two are poking through and the top two are just about to. She is taking it like a champ too, hardly seems to bother her.

So we’ll be looking at quite the smile now, 5 front teeth, lots of empty space and some molars!