teething? so early?

Chikoo is 'walking 4 months'. For those of you unfamiliar with this literal translation from Tamil (naalu maasam nadandundu irukku) it is to say he is 4 months plus some days old. Okay, the bottom line is he is yet to complete 5 months and here he is chewing on everything his hands are able to grab; including his own fingers of course. The act went largely unnoticed, as he was anyway fond of putting both his hands and all the fingers into his mouth.We even had a viewer's choice for that snapshot and is part of family album, meant to embarass him years later.

But he puts only one hand into his mouth these days and when you try to take it out, holds on with such force and his face goes into such a determined expression, that we stopped and took notice.  Of cours he wants to put your fingers also into his tiny mouth and grabs your hands to prevent you from taking them out. He cries out for no reason and it is a different cry from the various cries that we have carefully catalogued.

D tried to feel his gums to see if she can spot any teething activity but there was none she said. She is no doctor.But chikoo is such a sensitive kid, that the first ball would have been bowled in the divine scheme of things in his body to initiate teething. It will be working slowly and peacfully in the sub conscious system but chikoo being chikoo has felt the stirrings and getting all prematurely geared up. Yes, you might think I am heavily exaggerating. But when he was hardly one month old, D could spot why he was grunting for no reason and could actually spot the contractions at the beginning of the colon when he is feeding. After an hour or more he would pass his stools! So it was that D could predict quite exactly what time we need to be ready for his Big job! She used to stun me the first few times, before she let me into the secret.So that is chikoo for you.

Amma, the kollu patti ,was surprised when I told her that he might be teething soon. Innum anju maasam kooda agalaye, enna avasaram!  I gave her this big story and said the waiting time could be long, so dont worry.

So he is all padded up and ready for the first tooth which is to arrive a couple of months later.Virgo baby, what do you think!