Teething Timeline
A regular teething timeline starts around four months of age and it continues until the child turns two, and then a pause occurs for three more years until the child is five. Afterwards, the grown-up teeth start to erupt but in a much more comfortable way than in early childhood. Nevertheless, the teething timeline is not something of a fixed nature, as there are cases when the teething process begins earlier: like around three months of age.
The teething timeline of premature babies is a bit different, as the eruption occurs later in such cases; these infants will develop their teeth around seven months of age, but it is not uncommon to only start teething when they turn one. Like many other things about babies, it is very difficult to set a clear-cut schedule concerning their future evolution, all you can do is predict, but in the end it is the individual specificity that has a word in the matter.
What can be more accurately predicted along the teething timeline is the order of the tooth eruption once the first stage is over. When a baby has already got its two low middle incisors, the next to appear are the four upper ones and the canines afterwards. The molars are the ones to trouble the infants the most since there is a larger tooth surface that needs to erupt, hence the symptoms may be more severe than for the incisors.
Many parents choose to carefully monitor the teething timeline, but others have difficulties when it comes to identifying the progress made in the teeth eruption. This is often the case with children that show very few symptoms that they are teething, there is almost no change in behavior and appetite so only a close examination of the gums will actually tell. However, the majority of babies are very irritable and agitated during the teething period, they will bite and chew at things, drool a lot and even lose their appetite.
A nursing mother will be able to notice certain events on the teething timeline better since the child will usually bite pretty badly. Such behavior often triggers a frustrated reaction on the part of the mother and this is actually the time when most babies are weaned. You should nevertheless keep in mind that the child bites instinctively because he or she feels a very strong urge to relieve the pressure in the gums, it is not something he or she does on purpose.