Livy and Chloe went to the dentist this morning!

We went to the dentist this morning. It went pretty well, considering. Livy's teeth are absolutely perfect. She even got her first x=rays today and thought that was really neat, even though she was a little pissed that they had to keep her pictures at the office.

Chloe, on the other hand, has me in tears. Well, she doesn't, her teeth do. She has really crappy enamel. They think the reason for her chipped tooth in the first place is that her teeth are soft. The brown I saw was basically what precedes a cavity--just soft tooth tissue, if that makes sense. She has that on her chipped tooth and the tooth right beside it. She also has pits in her 1 year molars and in the 2 year molar that is all the way through. Again, not cavities, just some genetic issues with how her teeth are forming. She is also completely missing a bottom baby tooth. He tried to do an x-ray to see if it was there at all or if there was an adult tooth either, but of course, that did not go over well. He really feels that if the baby tooth was there it would have come in by now. No hurry to find out about the adult one since she's got a while before there is any need to worry about that.

So, here's the best part--for all the dental work they need to do to her to keep these soft spots from turning into cavities and rotting all of her teeth out, she would need to be sedated. She doesn't weigh enough to do it with what they have in the office, so she would need to be put under at the hospital, have the work done, and stay overnight.

I'm seriously bawling. Have been for an hour. I feel like a failure as a mother. I know they kept saying over and over that it was just her teeth and that nothing I did or didn't do would have made a difference, but I still feel like crap. And the thought of my baby in the hospital, put under....makes me want to throw up. But not as much as the idea of all of her teeth rotting away.

Why? Why do Tory and Livy have perfect teeth and Chloe's are just a mess? Where does that kind of difference even come from? I didn't have my first cavity until I was 25 years old, for goodness sake. And the dentist contributed that to years of throwing up wearing down my enamel (no not bulimia--morning sickness. We figured I had spent about 13 months total throwing up several times a day ) I don't know about Andy's childhood but none of his adult teeth have had cavities.

My poor baby girl.