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Conference moira::parenting

Title:	Parenting
Notice:	Previous PARENTING version at MOIRA::PARENTING_V3
Moderator:	GEMEVN::FAIMANY

Created:	Thu Apr 09 1992
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1292
Total number of notes:	34837

727.0. "Sticking out his Tongue...Is this normal?" by LJSRV1::LEGER () Fri Apr 22 1994 14:07

    

Since I am a new mother, and everything is NEW to me, I thought I would turn
to the people in this file for answers...

My son Nicholas will be 4months next week. Yesterday he started sticking his 
tongue  out at me all the time. Is this normal?  He looks a little strange 
doing this.  I mean, his tongue is out all the time. 

He has started eating solid foods during the last few weeks, and I thought
maybe he is practicing moving food to the back of his mouth? Let me point out, 
he has no problem eating!  He loves to eat his Oatmeal and Fruit!

Has anyone experienced this?  It looks strange! Actually, it looks like he 
is being fresh!  But, he is to young to know abuout these things.

Thanks,
Anne Marie

**If this is in the wrong place, please move it. I did a dir/title=Tongue, and 
found nothing

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
727.1	my daughter did this	ECADJR::WILLIAMS		`Fri Apr 22 1994 14:19`	9
	Anne Marie, This certainly sounds normal to me. My daughter who's now 2 years old, used to do this all the time when she was a baby. My family had a running joke calling her "lizard tongue". :-) Not a very attractive nickname for a little girl, but she looked pretty funny. -Susan
727.2		BIGQ::MARCHAND		`Fri Apr 22 1994 14:25`	8
	hi, My 5 month old great-nephew is doing this. It seems he's discovered the tongue and just keeps sticking it out. Sometimes it looks like he's trying to look at it. It is so funny! I think it's just discovery time and I'm sure with the extra attention it gives it's fun to do. Rose
727.3	VERY common	STOWOA::NELSONK		`Fri Apr 22 1994 17:07`	3
	It sure is. Both of mine did it, my girlfriend's baby does it, my nieces and nephews did it....Maybe he's just exercising those mouth muscles so he can eat even better!!
727.4	FWIW	GAVEL::PCLX31::satow	gavel::satow, dtn 223-2584	`Fri Apr 22 1994 17:13`	3
	Michael Jordan does it also. Clay
727.5	Glad he is normal...	LJSRV1::LEGER		`Fri Apr 22 1994 17:14`	7
	I am glad to find out its "normal" even though it looks absoutely silly! Actually, its kind of cute! But, I am a little biased! Anne Marie
727.6	hubby does it also...	LJSRV1::LEGER		`Fri Apr 22 1994 17:16`	5
	Actually, now that I think of it, when my husband is very into something, he sticks out his tongue. I always tell him, if he isn't careful, he is going to bite it off..
727.7	so THAT's where it comes from ;-)	UTROP1::BEL_M	Michel Bel@UTO - Telecommie	`Mon Apr 25 1994 03:36`	1
	talk about heredity (sp?). had a good laugh about .-1
727.8		CSC32::M_EVANS	stepford specialist	`Mon Apr 25 1994 09:57`	7
	Ann Marie, My kids all did this, and it seems to be common. My midwife refers to it as "tasting the world" since there is so much information for that new baby to process. meg
727.9		DKAS::DKAS::WIKOFF_T	Tanya Wikoff, MR01-3 297-2087, Home is wherever your loved ones are.	`Mon Apr 25 1994 18:10`	21
	My daughter Rachel, now 17 months, sticks her tongue out the side of her mouth anytime she's concentrating on something. I taught her to kinda push it back in when I tell her "Tongue in the mouth, Rachel!". She'll push it in (cute), then usually show it back to me! Trouble is, apparently she's inherited this trait from my husband's brother, who did bite his tongue several times when he was growing up. Back when Rachel only had four teeth and was pulling up, she had a collision with another toddler, and put four sharp little teeth marks into her tongue. It took a few weeks to heal, though it did heal well on it's own and you can hardly see a scar now. But even though I just try to make her aware of it when her tongue is out, my husband warns me that I may not be able to train her out of it. Luckily she didn't hurt it last week when playing outside one of her first times, she tripped on the sidewalk and skinned her nose! Boy did she look silly for a week! Mom's get paid to worry, but I guess sometimes you gotta trust your kids to learn. (Wait a minute, I've hardly been a mom long enough to be so philosophical!) -Tanya
727.10		CLOUD9::WEIER	Patty, DTN 381-0877	`Tue Apr 26 1994 10:24`	4
	This is kind of funny .... Jonathan (my third) is 7 mos old, and I thought it kind of odd that he HASN'T gone through the "sticking out his tongue" thing yet. Of course he ALWAYS has his fists in his mouth, so maybe I'm just missing it (-:
727.11	Only the beginning!	CRONIC::BRADBURY		`Wed Apr 27 1994 16:19`	11
	Sure it's normal...in fact they say look for it since it is one of the first ways they can imitate you! and interact with you when they are very young. Then Cassie went from that to "clucking" sounds, then to sticking out the tongue with it flipped up like a huge upper lip...now she sticks out the tongue and "razzes" it..humming and spitting till she's "frothing from the mouth"...(but experts says razzing is the first stages of breaking the language barrier--so what we think is a cute new phase is really something important)... My friends son sucks his checks in now and looks like a fish....