Baby Born With a Mouth Full of Teeth
No fair – they don’t have to go through teething. That’s all I could think when I heard about little Michael Matthew Mintz, born December fifth with a mouth full of teeth. That and – ouch, that poor Mom trying to breastfeed!
The newborn came out of his mom with eight teeny weeny teeth and four little buds last week – a healthy little guy at seven pounds, thirteen ounces, twenty-one inches long.
The teeth are totally normal according to the family’s doctor; natal teeth happen in every two- to three-thousand births. Although there’s a slim chance of the baby choking if the teeth fall out, there’s really little else that makes Michael’s unique chompers an issue for his parents, Keith and Melissa.
“I was OK with it because my baby was healthy. I think it was more of a
surprise when I saw them.” Melissa told the Gaston Gazette. “My reaction was,
I was born with my four front teeth (two top, two bottom) and they never did me any harm … although my mother does complain now and again about the pain she had while breast feeding me lol. She was advised that they may fall out and then I would get new ones while teething but they stayed put until a rollerblading accident when I was 9. That was fun.
What a great name, too!
Wasn’t Henry VIII born with a mouthful of teeth?