B+C+B+C+B+C: First Dentist Trip

Thursday, February 23, 2012

First Dentist Trip

She asked the dentist over and over again for a "drink"
(from the water squirter/sprayer tool). She also told him he
had a funny name that her daddy is Brian.

I know, I probably should've taken her before now... like, um, three years ago before now... but seriously - what's the point of taking a baby to the dentist?! 98% of them will freak out and hate it. The other 2% will sit there happily (after being drugged, of course). I think the AAP's recommendation of taking a child to the dentist around their first birthday was written by someone who had never actually tried to take a child to the dentist. Or it was written by a dentist, who wanted to make money, not realizing it would be more of a pain than it's worth to try to get a child to let him scrape around their teeth. There's my ignorant schpeel for the day.
So I'm glad that we waited until Brianna would actually ENJOY her first dental visit. Now she's not going to have a fearful aversion to the dentist for her whole life, like so many do. Or maybe she will after we get her little cavity taken care of. Yeah, whoops. Although the doc said it wasn't necessarily a "user error" - might have been a development thing - the outer layer of one tooth had a spot of less density. Something like that. Maybe he was just trying to console me in my grief (because having a child w/ a cavity makes any good mom feel like a crappy mom.)

The gift card, PLUS a goody bag with a 2 new toothbrushes - one
princess, one battery-powered, stickers, kid's floss, kid's toothpaste
(big size!), lip gloss...This might make up for our dental insurance premiums!

So to make myself sound even worse... my motivation for taking her at this point was a tad self-serving. I probably would've continued procrastinating it if it weren't for all these incentive offers we get in the mail for various dentists around here. It's wonderful living in a state saturated with more dentists than it needs. So they have to compete, and send out bait. For this visit, we earned a $25 B&N gift card. For Brian's visit (to a different dentist) we got a free electric toothbrush. For mine, I was supposed to get an ipod shuffle, but I wasn't eligible for one of the xrays for another couple years. Lame. Lesson learned - read the fine print beforehand. Anyways, I'm rambling... Point is.... what's the point.. is there one? What's the point of all this blogging I do, in general? I don't really know. Just blabbing out to cyberspace about our trivial adventures. Oh sheesh I need to go to bed now. After flossing.

1 comment:

Hohmann Family said...: That face is priceless! I threw up on the dentist my first time. Looks like her experience was MUCH better than that!; February 23, 2012 at 7:04 PM

Quotes I want to remember

"The Lord knows our bearing capacity, both as to coping and to comprehending, and He will not give us more to bear than we can manage at the moment, though to us it may seem otherwise. Just as no temptations will come to us from which we cannot escape or which we cannot bear, we will not be given more trials than we can sustain."
- Neal A. Maxwell

"It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters. We become enamored with men's theories such as the idea of preschool training outside the home for young children. Not only does this put added pressure on the budget, but it places young children in an environment away from mother's influence."
-Ezra Taft Benson

“Perhaps there has never been a time when we had greater need to pray and to teach our family members to pray. Prayer is a defense against temptation. It is through earnest and heartfelt prayer that we can receive the needed blessings and the support required to make our way in this sometimes difficult and challenging journey we call mortality.”
-Thomas S. Monson

“Live the gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you have made. And bear your testimony! Don’t just assume your children will somehow get the drift of your beliefs on their own.
-Jeffrey R. Holland

"We hold in our arms the rising generation. They come to this earth with important responsibilities and great spiritual capacities. We cannot be casual in how we prepare them. Our challenge as parents and teachers is not to create a spiritual core in their souls but rather to fan the flame of their spiritual core already aglow with the fire of their premortal faith."
-Neil L. Andersen

"Certainly there are times when getting the family together to read the scriptures does not stack up as a spiritual experience worthy of a journal entry. But we must not be deterred. There are special times when the spirit of a son or daughter is just right and the power of these great scriptures goes down into their heart like fire. As we honor our Heavenly Father in our homes, He will honor our efforts."
-Neil L. Andersen

President Hinckley admonished both men and women to be nurturers. He said, ‘How much more beautiful would be the society in which we live if every father . . . and . . . mother regarded [their] children . . . as gifts from the God of heaven . . . and brought them up with true affection in the wisdom and admonition of the Lord.’ ”
-Susan W. Tanner

"Children are like trees. When they are young, their lives can be shaped and directed, usually with ever so little effort. Said the writer of Proverbs, 'Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it' (22:6). That training finds its roots in the home. There will be little of help from other sources. Do not depend on government to help in this darkening situation. Barbara Bush, wife of former U.S. president George Bush, spoke wisely: 'Your success as a family, our success as society, depends not on what happens at the White House, but on what happens inside your house.' "
-Gordon B. Hinckley

“I give counsel to husbands and wives. Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion’s joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion.”
-Henry B. Eyring

“Reverent behavior is not a natural tendency for most children. It is a quality that is taught by parents and leaders through example and training. But remember, if reverence is rooted in love, so is the teaching of it. Harshness in our training begets resentment, not reverence.”
-Margaret S. Lifferth

"There is no one perfect way to be a good mother. Each situation is unique. Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children. What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply and, in keeping with the devotion she has for God and her husband, prioritizes them above all else."
- M. Russell Ballard

“As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy of emulation? Do we live in such a way that a son or a daughter may say, ‘I want to follow my dad,’ or ‘I want to be like my mother’?”
-Thomas S. Monson

“Security for our families comes from learning self-control, avoiding the excesses of this world, and being temperate in all things.”
-Kent D. Watson

Thursday, February 23, 2012

First Dentist Trip

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