{"id":11705,"date":"2010-12-13T19:58:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T11:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=11705"},"modified":"2010-12-13T19:58:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T11:58:42","slug":"hannahs-first-tooth-brush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/12\/13\/hannahs-first-tooth-brush\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah&#8217;s first tooth brush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As far as teeth development is concerned, Hannah is really lagging behind the average baby. At 18 months, she has a total of 6 full teeth and 4 in the midst of sprouting.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, we have made the transition from wash cloth cleaning to a tooth brush. Got her the stage 1 from Oral B. The standard routine after her bottle of milk every night is: brush her teeth, cleaning gums and tongue with a wash cloth, put on her pajamas, say her prayer, some daddy cuddle, and off to bed in her cot.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I have started her on holding her own tooth brush and brush her teeth. I&#8217;d sit her on a stool on the sink countertop where she could see herself in the mirror. Next, I tell Hannah to look at herself in the mirror and then I&#8217;d show my teeth to encourage her to do the same. When that happens, I&#8217;d then proceed to guide the tooth brush into her mouth and start the brushing motion. The brushing part gets quite clumsy sometimes but she gets the idea (whatever it is!).<\/p>\n<p>Here are some photos Yang captured of her trying to brush, and with my assistance. :)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"blog-2010-hannah-DSC_3180-teeth-brushing\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-hannah-DSC_3180-teeth-brushing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/blog-2010-hannah-DSC_3180-teeth-brushing.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"blog-2010-hannah-DSC_3215-teeth-brushing\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-hannah-DSC_3215-teeth-brushing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/blog-2010-hannah-DSC_3215-teeth-brushing.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far as teeth development is concerned, Hannah is really lagging behind the average baby. At 18 months, she has a total of 6 full teeth and 4 in the midst of sprouting. In any case, we have made the<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/12\/13\/hannahs-first-tooth-brush\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Hannah&#8217;s first tooth brush<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-children-blues","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-7-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}