Teething
Also called teethe, teethed, teether, teething symptoms, cutting teeth, cutting a tooth
Teething is when a baby's first teeth push up through the gums. Parents also reach for the word to explain a fussy, drooly baby, sometimes before any tooth shows.
How it's said
My first started teething at 6 weeks.
Mine has always had teething symptoms but no teeth!
FTM I need your best hacks for teething please...
Who says it
Where it came from
Teething comes from the verb teethe, which goes back to Old English tēþan, built on the old Germanic word for tooth.
For centuries teething was treated as a dangerous stage. In the 16th century the French surgeon Ambroise Paré began lancing babies' gums to let the teeth through, and the practice lasted until late in the 19th century. In England from the 17th to the 19th century, a coral was a teething toy of coral, ivory or bone, often set in silver as the handle of a rattle.