Meet the baby born with fully formed front teeth and the mother’s worry of breastfeeding her

Wales, United Kingdom:  A new mum has admitted she was anxious about breastfeeding her baby daughter - when she was born with two fully formed front teeth.

Most babies start teething at around six months but little Rose Esme Pullen astounded nurses and midwives at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff with her pearly white incisors, Wales Online reports.

Mum Chloe said: "I had a Caesarean so I was under general anaesthetic but when I came round my husband told me our daughter had teeth."

Rose was born at 9.58am on August 22, weighing 7lb 2oz, and quickly attracted the attention of hospital staff.

"The midwives had never seen anything like it before," said 25-year-old Chloe. "Everybody came to the ward to see her - you could tell it was rare."

Doctors say that about one in every 3,000 babies are born with teeth.

"I was in shock because they did look bizarre," said Chloe, who lives in Pantmawr with her husband Daniel, a fireman, and their two-year-old son Thomas.

"Daniel was really surprised too," she added.

"He sent a picture to our friends and family to say that she had arrived and they could not believe it."

Chloe said the incisors looked like normal teeth, only smaller, and observed that her daughter's gum had risen at the front of her mouth.

"I was worried about breastfeeding her but it didn't hurt," she added. "I could not actually feel her teeth."

Baby Rose is not the first in the family to be born with teeth - her maternal grandmother was born with one front tooth.

"Apparently it can be hereditary," said Chloe, who works in fire control.

"My mum didn't realise she had been born with teeth until her sister told her after Rose was born."

Rose's teeth, which were in the middle of her lower gum, were removed three days after she was born but she is still expected to grow a full set of baby teeth.

"She had to go on to bottled milk until they came out but I was able to breastfeed again after that," said Chloe.

"I was given a little tooth fairy box at her baby shower and I never thought I would be using it so soon.

"I also never expected that she would get a visit from the tooth fairy before her brother!"

Rose's parents have decided to keep her first teeth in a jar.