Seeing a babies first tooth tradition

Morglin

Never heard of it in London.

Lin

balletshoes

jaylee3 wrote: »

Never heard of it either. Seems to (maybe) be a thing in Scotland and Ireland.

maybe - but I've never heard of it at all (east coast of scotland).

Tropez

There was an Irish tradition that you would give a child a pair of shoes when they got their first tooth because it was to signify that the child would soon be taking their first steps. However, I don't know whether this is still observed in Ireland. The Italians also have the same tradition, so it could possibly be a Catholic one?

I did a quick Google and found a forum in which a poster from Dublin makes a quick reference to the shoes tradition - http://babyandbump.momtastic.com/baby-club/941925-first-tooth.html - so perhaps it is still observed to some degree in Ireland?

Ahh, naughty me skimming the thread, I see one or two others have mentioned the tradition in relation to Ireland

OrkneyStar

jaylee3 wrote: »

Never heard of it either. Seems to (maybe) be a thing in Scotland and Ireland.

Never heard of it in Scotland either. (Not quoting you to pick on you, just couldn't be bothered to quote every one!).

IrishRose12

My mum found my eldest's first tooth, my SIL found the middle one and neighbour found babies. It's a well known and carried on tradition here where I live, they all bought them their first pair of proper walking shoes.
Just something that we all do. I found my neighbour's, daughters first tooth so bought her her first pair also. I suppose it depends on how each family are brought up and whether they carry on traditions?