If your baby is restless, grumpy, drooly, off their food, off their sleep, or generally just having a hard time, there's a good chance that teeth are the culprit. Born with adorable gummy smiles, babies earn their toothy grins over the first two years of their lives or so. And then, a few years later, they have to do it all over again. In this episode, Leila and Kim delve into the surprisingly murky and misunderstood science of teething.

Inside:

• An introduction to teething and how both of our children are experiencing it
• What is actually going on inside your baby's mouth when their teeth appear
• The order and timing of teeth emergence, and the reasons for that pattern
• Why baby teeth fall out again
• Common teething symptoms
• How to sooth teething discomfort
• Caring for your baby's new teeth

Reach out to us with your teething tales contactthescience@gmail.com

And you can find The Science Baby elsewhere on the web:

Our blog: https://thesciencebaby.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_science_baby/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thesciencebaby Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thesciencebaby

And if you like what you see, consider supporting our work with a one-off or recurring tip: https://ko-fi.com/leilabattison

When you're all caught up with Science Baby, you can find our recommended podcast Sick Society here

You’ve just spent nine months growing a baby, but the journey doesn’t end the moment you give birth. When the baby is out, you might be tempted to think that everything - your body, your emotions, your life - will go back to normal. But for both new mothers and their babies, there’s an adjustment period popularly known as the Fourth Trimester. Kim and Leila unpack what’s going on, and how it can leave you feeling.

In this episode:

• How the fourth trimester sits alongside the three other trimesters of pregnancy
• What baby is experiencing
• What emotional changes you can expect and why
• How your experience might differ if you’re breastfeeding
• What physical changes you can expect
• Should you expect to bounce back during the fourth trimester, or even afterwards?

When both of our children were newborns, both Kim and Leila were told, repeatedly, that they looked just like their dads. Which, to be honest, wasn't always what we wanted to hear. We explore why it might be a good idea to look like your dad, what the science actually says, and how sometimes resemblance is all in the eye of the beholder.

In this episode:

• We talk about our own babies' features, and how often they were compared to their dads.
• Why it might be a good idea to look like the father, from an animal evolution perspective
• Do babies actually look like their dads?
• The science says its all in our heads
• Why not looking like dad might be a good idea
• How dad's investment can change how similar he thinks they are
• The future of our babies' features

You can find more Science Baby at...

Our blog: https://thesciencebaby.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_science_baby/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thesciencebaby

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thesciencebaby

And if you like what you see, consider supporting our work with a one-off or recurring tip: https://ko-fi.com/leilabattison