A Missouri mother vows she
definitely will not be breastfeeding her newborn daughter
after the infant was born with a pair of front teeth.
Is she to be blamed?
Jaklina
Bailey said her daughter, Alyssa Bella Bailey, born Dec. 28, surprisingly was born with two front teeth.
"Right
when she first arrived everyone was shocked," Bailey told KOLR-TV. "They said, 'she has two front teeth?' It was
just the big talk in the delivery room."
She
said her doctor was equally surprised.
"She
said in her 25 year career this is the second time she's ever seen it,"
Bailey said.
"We had two other doctors that came in just to look, and
nurses, they were just like, 'let me see, let me see.'"
The
new mother said
Alyssa's teeth mean she will be drinking strictly from a bottle.
Definitely, the new mother is quite apprehensive of the possible bites from the newborn.
"I
know a lot of people have asked me, 'does it hurt?' Well, I'm bottle feeding.
Breastfeeding -- but bottle feeding," she said.
Doctors
said the condition is rare, but not unique.
Jonathan
Wyllie, a neonatologist at James Cook University Hospital, in reaction said:
"We
deliver 4,000 babies a year. It's every 2,000 to 3,000 births. Babies are born
with one or two teeth and it's usually in the lower gum," Wyllie said.
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