Arieldonenow

I like to think that I've spent more than my fair share of time in the dreaded dentist chair and I still don't have perfect teeth to show for it; partly because of genetics and partly because of my horrible weakness for sweetness!! So I have always promised myself I would try my best to make sure my kids developed the right dental hygiene from an early stage! My daughter was less than a week old when we took her for her first ever trip to the pediatrician's office. Among a whole list of advice that we were bombarded with, her pediatrician emphasized the need to clean her mouth on a daily basis even at that early stage. She recommended using a dampened soft muslin cloth wrapped around my finger to gentle clean her gums, tongue and entire mouth. At the time I had just started using the Aden & Anais muslin swaddle blankets and was so in love with how soft they were, so I decided to cut up one of the new blankets and use it as the doctor directed. As she got a little olde...