No tooth pulling for me either --- my kids are 15, 13 and 4 (no lost teeth yet) - and my sister-in-law pulled most of their teeth! No WAY could I do it...

Yay, Leta! One more rite of passage down, one million to go.

My sister knocked out my first baby teeth lost. It was an accident, but still...

I recommend *pushing.*

It'd better be on its last string. Finger on top of tooth (cutting surface), push in and down. Points for hard and swift.

Much less nauseating than pulling. My dad had to push all mine out (and yes, Mom still has them, in a little compartment of her jewelry box).

Ooh, good thinking @ladyphlogiston ! There's plenty of that around here.

"How about we tie a string to that tooth, give the other end to Marlo and let nature takes its course?

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!! Love that one. I can totally see it.

And yay Leta for getting be be on the tooth chart today!

OhhhhhhOhhhhhhhhSsssshitNooooo! I can't have any part of tooth pulling. I had 2 of my teeth knocked out during a front porch swing incident around age 6 or 7 and oooooooohhhellllllnoooooooo!!!!! I still have dreams about my teeth falling out! NoNONooooo I don't want to read about the pulling out of anyones teeth again kthanksbye.

J lost the same tooth just a couple weeks ago! It was her first as well. I can't do the whole wiggle and pull thing either so I left it up to her and Daddy. In the end as we were climbing in the car to drive 300 miles to a funeral she pulled it. Well the tooth, the root was still in her gum! But it worked it's way out. And now her other front teeth are all loose and I have strict orders for her to wiggle them regularly b/c her permanent teeth are starting to cut through on the bottom already. So she needs to lose that other bottom tooth to make room! My mother still has all of my baby teeth as well as my sisters. I have J's in my wallet still. I need to put it in my jewelry box.

My Mom still has all my baby teeth in a box in her dresser. I discovered this by accident as a teenager when I was looking for a hair twisty or something.

I get that she couldn't just throw them out but I fear the day when she's gone and I have to decide what to do with them along with all her other crap.

Congrats, Leta!

My grandfather came over to our house with a pair of needle-nose pliers to pull out my first tooth. It was actually the least traumatic thing we tried, because it was over and done with in a second.

My mom kept all our baby teeth. I found them once in a little ceramic box on her dresser. I was expecting the box to contain earrings or something, so that was kind of a morbid discovery. She now uses those teeth to do science experiments with her third-graders... total scare-tactic science, like dropping a tooth in a glass of Coke and having the kids chart how long it takes before the tooth is completely disintegrated.

I lost my first baby teeth when, at the age of 6 and not possessed of much foresight, I jumped backward into a swimming pool, while grinning, while both my top front teeth were loose, and caught said teeth on the rope that went around the inside of the pool. PLOINK! Splip, splip, two teeth gone.

It didn't hurt and the only reason I was freaking out was because I couldn't find one of them in the pool and how was the Tooth Fairy going to know it was a twofer if I didn't find the other one?!?

My mom, bless her, finally found a 10-year-old kid running around the pool with a swim mask and paid him the princely sum of 25 cents to find the other tooth, which he did, at the bottom of the deep end, perilously close to the drain. Oh, the drama!

She later took me to the dentist to be sure nothing was broken off up in the gums and it was all good.

So, if Leta's up for it in warmer weather, there's another method!

I am a nurse and while I can stand puke, poop, pee and pretty much EVERY body fluid that comes out of a person, I CANNOT stand the sound or sight of a loose tooth. It is my achilles heel!

ICK! So I guess what I'm saying is: I can relate.

Oh my GOD! I am cringing. Vomit! I just had flashbacks to having teeth pulled before I could get braces...20 years ago and I'm still haunted. Can't you just wait and let them fall out on their own?

Funny side story...my nephew had all of his baby teeth pulled at about age 3. They made him this hilarious looking fake set of teeth. He looked like Guy Smiley from Sesame Street. Well he was sleeping over at my sister-in-laws and woke up and his teeth were gone! Um, did you lose a tooth last night? or maybe a SET of teeth? and then nobody could find them! now the story is moving away from teeth and entering the poop zone.

I hope the tooth fairy is good to Leta!

My husband's family has a weird tooth thing:

His mom paints glass Christmas ornaments for all the kids in the family each year. She paints the kid on the front in their favorite clothes and writes all the year's milestones on the back. She also makes ornaments for the teeth each kid has lost. She puts the kid's name on the front and all the teeth inside the ornament, then hangs said tooth-filled ornament on the tree. She even does it for the dogs in the family!!

My oldest also lost the SAME tooth about a month and a half ago. Is that the universal first tooth to lose?? My question to you is what did the tooth fairy bring? Here in L.A. the tooth fairy has big expectations, that we weren't about to try and live up to. You can read about what we did here- http://poopinginpeace.blogspot.com/2010/10/window-...

There was no way I was giving her what some of her friends got. I have three kids! We'd have no money left by the time we got to the last one.

For some reason, every time I lost a baby tooth it was really painful (maybe I'm just a pansy), so now I can't stand even looking at a kid wiggling a loose tooth. But of course I read this whole post, with my hand protectively covering my mouth the whole time.

Yay Leta!