Your baby has started teething at eight months and you are suddenly full of questions. All your girlfriends who had babies around the same time have already experience the joy of seeing that first tooth poke through, but your baby has just started showing the telltale signs of cutting teeth. You must remember that though the average age for beginning the teething process is seven months old, it can vary greatly. The age of the mother and the father when they began the process significantly affects when their child will. The first tooth could arrive earlier than three months or later than a year, but such extremes are uncommon. Beginning at eight months is perfectly fine and no cause for worry.

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If they haven’t started already, your baby may begin teething at seven months. Soon their little months will be full of sparkling teeth. The first teeth are the primary teeth. There are twenty of these, which is twelve less than the permanent ones that will come in later. Cutting teeth differs vastly from one baby to the next; with one, the teeth can appear overnight and with another, it is long drawn out process. There may be a slight lump in the gums when the tooth is coming in, but sometimes there is no visible clue at all.

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