DD still has a bottle at 22 Months.....

kjmtidea

ragz wrote: »

My sons still have the AnywayUp cups, they are 2 and 3. I know I should really get them off them but I hate spills and these are so handy!

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My 2 1/2 year old has the anyway up cups, they seem to be the only ones that don't leak!

pigpen

Why can she not still have her bottle??

It is only twice a day and if it is that or no milk (none of mine ever drank milk from anything but a breast or bottle they simply refused) what's the problem?

It isn't like she has 5 a day is it?

Counting_Pennies_2

Don't worry that she is still on the bottle.

I desperately tried to put my son on different cups, and it distressed him and us, because then he wasn't getting enough to drink.

Now for my daughter she is nearly two and a half, and she is still having her bottle for milk. It is comforting for her, and she takes all the milk and sleeps well because of it (well most of the time!!)

Don't feel the pressure to move on.

neneromanova

I was worried about her teeth going crooked as apparently bottles can do that, but then again so can dummies....

kegg_2

milk is full of sugar which can damage teeth.

kegg_2

dentist recommend having no fluid via a bottle bar water from 12 -14 months.
It is not just the juices but even the sugar in milk can cause alot of damage to teeth

pigpen

neneromanova wrote: »

I was worried about her teeth going crooked as apparently bottles can do that, but then again so can dummies....

no, they can't!!

My sister had milk in a bottle until she was about 5, she wouldn't even have milk on cereal she hated it so much. At 22 she is no different. Her teeth are fine..

Deciduous teeth straighten themselves anyway.. DD4 had one front tooth behind the other until she was about 3.5 and that sorted itself.

juice is more full of sugar and does more damage the sugar turns acidic very quickly whereas milk sugars are harder to breakdown so takes longer to become acidic by which time adequate saliva has been produced to combat the acidic effects and protect the teeth.

Also milk from cups goes into the front of the mouth so straight onto the front of the teeth and washes over them, milk from a bottle goes in behind the teeth so there is less liklihood for damage to occur.. breast milk goes straight to the back of the throat so misses the teeth entirely.. as an aside.

kegg_2

http://www.dental-health-index.com/picturesofbadteeth.html

half way down shows the sort of damage caused to teeth from drinking from bootlles. It is even given its own name of baby bottle decay

pigpen

no, that is 'lack of parental care and not making the child brush their teeth decay'.. And I would put my entire life savings (all 4p lol) on the fact those children had something other than milk in their bottles.. coke, tea/coffee with sugar.. that is hardly 'proof' just more guilt tripping for parents who do care when many parents sadly don't. No childs teethh would be like that unless they have a severe problem or total neglect from the parents which I am quite certain the OP isn't.. or she'd not be bothered by this.

At 22 month she can have her teeth brushed twice a day... non-issue. She 'should' (I know getting in a dentist is a huge problem) be seen by the dentist twice a year anyway.

I have severe dental enamel hypoplasia resulting in my teeth coming through broken and with cracks caries and in some areas no enamel at all. I had 1970's sweetened formula and sugar-rush rusks in a bottle from being born until I was about 3.5.. I also brushed my teeth 2-3 times a day.. result.. I had some left to come out when I was 5. My adult teeth are a mess.. oddly the front ones aren't too bad but I simply don't have back teeth. Thankfuly only 2 of my children inherited it.. as a dominant trait the others managed to avoid it.. their dads teeth thrive on neglect.

kegg_2

baby bottle decay is not a myth or just due to poor oral hygine.

All you have to do is google baby bottle decay

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=baby+bottle+decay&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

and there is info on it from many souces. Up to you whether you wish to dismiss it but it doesn't change the fact that it is an acknowleged problem with babies teeth.