dental health and breastfeeding

[Anne Rogers]

I chatted with a dental health promoter today, we talked about the fact DS
takes a few sips of milk after cleaning his teeth at night and she was
really keen that we switch that round, so we're going to try, I also asked
about how we might not get into this cycle with DD (7 months, breastfed) and
didn't really get very far, right now she has no teeth, when she does, we
will start by brushing once a day in the bath, so before her last feed. She
doesn't feed regularly in the night, so no problems there. But I'm wondering
what might be a good point to transitioning her to feed, then teeth brush,
then bed?

Cheers

Anne

[Linz]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:43:20 -0000, "Anne Rogers"
> wrote:

>I chatted with a dental health promoter today, we talked about the fact DS
>takes a few sips of milk after cleaning his teeth at night and she was
>really keen that we switch that round, so we're going to try, I also asked
>about how we might not get into this cycle with DD (7 months, breastfed) and
>didn't really get very far, right now she has no teeth, when she does, we
>will start by brushing once a day in the bath, so before her last feed. She
>doesn't feed regularly in the night, so no problems there. But I'm wondering
>what might be a good point to transitioning her to feed, then teeth brush,
>then bed?

I don't know - my dentist didn't even ask when we took YoungBloke when
he was two. We've instigated cleaning teeth, last nursing session and
then a short drink of water, and I know he swishes it around his mouth
because sometimes he forgets to keep his mouth closed...
--
Linz
YB: 2 years, 11.5kg, 83cm, still breastfed.

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Anne Rogers > writes:
: I chatted with a dental health promoter today, we talked about the fact DS
: takes a few sips of milk after cleaning his teeth at night and she was
: really keen that we switch that round, so we're going to try, I also asked
: about how we might not get into this cycle with DD (7 months, breastfed) and
: didn't really get very far, right now she has no teeth, when she does, we
: will start by brushing once a day in the bath, so before her last feed. She
: doesn't feed regularly in the night, so no problems there. But I'm wondering
: what might be a good point to transitioning her to feed, then teeth brush,
: then bed?

: Cheers

: Anne

We started around 15 months with brush teeth after bedtime nursing, then
no more milk until first night waking (usually 4 or 5 hours)

Larry