MSE Parents Club Part 12

weezl74

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Ah Krystal - thanks for reminding me.

I keep meaning to ask about cleaning teeth. At the moment Benjamin gets his done after Breakfast (at CM's) and then when he is in the bath (because he demands his toothbrush ) but that is before he has his last bottle.

Should I make an effort to change our routine to clean his teeth after his last bottle or do I just be thankful that he likes brushing his teeth and leave him to it in the bath? I just give him the toothbrush with a teeny blob of toothpaste on it and let him have a good chew. If he will let me (about 50/50) I have a little scrub too but it is a bit hit and miss kind of point and scrub


No-one ever talk about bath, bottle, teethbrush, bed!

hello lovely

*dons hat of wife of a dentist*

ideally Benjamin would have his teeth brushed after the night time bottle.

However in the real world where we all actually live :rotfl:the main things to remember are: more than 6 sugar spikes a day in the mouth will create caries- any food/drink/snack can be this.

The ones to be super cautious about are the types of sugars which are sticky. Milk is less worrying therefore than a raisin snack.

I'm guessing B has all incisors and canines? molars are worse for caries because particles of food sit on the top biting surface (it's harder to get food to stick to a cutting tooth than a chewing tooth)

Incidents of bottle caries are usually found in children who:

• have more than one bottle of milk between teeth cleaning
• have sugar/honey/fruit flavourings added to the milk
• Drink juice instead of milk/water (although this is acid erosion, not caries)

I hope all that helps someone

Krystaltips

Morning all... Knackered today, after the epic going to sleep nightmare, Caitlyn woke up about 12 and again about 3:45... Then the usual 5:30 but at least she went back to sleep after that one... The 3:45 one I though was going to be a hard one but after some water and a couple of presses of the glo worm it wasn't quite as bad as I was expecting...

We're off to toddlers in a min, I just need to get dressed and get my behind into gear... I always seem to get there the same time no matter what time I leave and it's usually just in time for toast lol... I'm hoping to get there a touch earlier so Caitlyn gets a chance to play first...

Mazcabs

3onitsway wrote: »

II think we may be onto something here. I've just timed myself, and ironed 31 items of mine, OH, J & L in an hour. (not including undies/socks because some people think i'm weird for ironing those!), but it did include school uniforms and OH's uniform with the horrible stiff combats.
And I had the lappy perched on the ironing board so I could keep up with you lot.

I'm saving V's til the end, to see if they work out at half an item.

Not very :money:but I get a friend to do mine and OH's ....plus she loves doing it and only charges me £5 for about 25 things... but I do stop at giving her kids things... had a blitz on them yesterday while LO was asleep and WAH...managed to clear the 2 loads... only trouble at the moment is shes on hols for 2 weeks so thats me doing my own ironing this week:(

kindofagilr wrote: »

Awww stupid OH lol sometimes when I get to go back to bed I find OH laying on my side lol

[STRIKE]Does anyone know another TC claim number other than 0845 3003900[/STRIKE] Ive tried ringing for weeks now but jut get a recorded message saying they are busy and to ring back no matter what time I call! I will not be happy if I lose out on some TC cos of a cut off or something, I will be requesting their appeals procedure (they must have one we(the dwp) have one)

ETA Ive now claimed thanks.

Know that feeling KOAG... OH is always doing that when I get up to feed WG...

TC's - thats one advantage I have as we have to call a special tel no as OH had a pension with Standard Life and so we go through to a seperate department...

BTW - Fairies posted teats yesterday sorry for the delay... forgot to weigh it though but put 2 large 1st stamps on so hope thats enough postage.:D

My_Fathers_Daughter

I woke up at 7.12am this morning :eek: which gave me half an hour to have a shower and get ready for work. Luckily hubby made coffee (I will not drive without coffee) and woke Benjamin and got him dressed so we actually made it to the CM on time.

Madness at our office building this morning so I had to park about 1/2 a mile down the road - was lovely to have a stroll! I would happily park there every morning!

Krystal - tomorrow night you will have a seahorse my lovely.


Weezl - thanks for that information. He only has front teeth ATM. He doesn't eat chocolate or sweets (very rarely - he has had chocolate about 6 times) and he doesn't drink juice. He does eat raisins though, and lots of fruit and I hadn't really thought of those in terms of 'sugar'


His last bottle is nighttime milk though so it is more than cows milk....

One of my friends said that her dentist said that as long as she gets toothpaste round them all at least once a day she was doing better than most and that anything more is a bonus. He also advised her to use toothpaste on her finger if gums were too sore to be brushed *shrugs shoulders* I wasn't convinced

boogellyboo

Morning all,

So glad your all talking about teeth as......

Isla has her bottom two front teeth!

The last two day's she's been a bit of a crabbit even though she had the best night's sleep ever on Sunday, yesterday she'd be really happy then swing to glum in the space of two seconds. I put teething gel on her gums at about 1pm and there were no teeth then at 7.30pm when she was going to bed, two little serrated edges! I can barely see them though as the little minx won't open her mouth and just sticks her tongue out at me

What time is the meet tomorrow? I'm still not 100% if we'll make it (some family stuff going on and I may be needed elsewhere) but I'll do my best.

Hope everyone's well x x

My_Fathers_Daughter

boogellyboo wrote: »

Morning all,

So glad your all talking about teeth as......

Isla has her bottom two front teeth!

The last two day's she's been a bit of a crabbit even though she had the best night's sleep ever on Sunday, yesterday she'd be really happy then swing to glum in the space of two seconds. I put teething gel on her gums at about 1pm and there were no teeth then at 7.30pm when she was going to bed, two little serrated edges! I can barely see them though as the little minx won't open her mouth and just sticks her tongue out at me

What time is the meet tomorrow? I'm still not 100% if we'll make it (some family stuff going on and I may be needed elsewhere) but I'll do my best.

Hope everyone's well x x

Yay for Teeth!! And lucky you getting two at a time!!

Benjamin sleeps tons when he is teething, strange boy!!

Is she doing that cute thing where she keeps touching her teeth with her tongue? It is how we can tell that Benjamin has a new tooth!

11am tomorrow - hope you can make it - would love to see new teeth in the flesh

boogellyboo

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Krystal - tomorrow night you will have a seahorse my lovely.

Isla thinks the seahorse is for singing along with or pressing your mouth around it's belly and blowing raspberry noises on :cool: I feel her and Benjamin will get along well seem's as he danced to his!

One of my friends said that her dentist said that as long as she gets toothpaste round them all at least once a day she was doing better than most and that anything more is a bonus. He also advised her to use toothpaste on her finger if gums were too sore to be brushed *shrugs shoulders* I wasn't convinced

Would one of these work if you can't get a brush into LO's mouth? I noticed them in the chemist at weekend but wasn't sure?

My_Fathers_Daughter

boogellyboo wrote: »

Would one of these work if you can't get a brush into LO's mouth? I noticed them in the chemist at weekend but wasn't sure?

Aw - aren't they cute!!

Luckily Benjamin is quite happy to chew on the brush for himself ATM - then he lets mummy have a little go (usually in exchange for him sticking the brush in my mouth LOL)


Benjamin dances to the seahorse - it does nothing to sooth him - which is why it is winging it's way to Caitlyn. LOL at Isla blowing raspberries on him!!

3onitsway

:(Yey for Islas teeth.

Weezl :wave: Have you still got your Mrs Dentist hat on? I have a question.
J gets Duraphat 2800ppm flouride toothpaste on prescription from the dentist because brushing his back teeth is a battle, and the dentist says prevention would definately be better for J that trying to do any treatment. Any treatment would have to be under GA.

So, if this toothpaste is so good - why isn't it good for everyone? (other than it tastes like crap!) From memory, I think our toothpaste is half the ppm of flouride, and the childrens one half again.

J btw has lovely teeth, no fillings or missing ones. (Touch wood).
L on the other hand had a couple of fillings in baby teeth and one extraction.

Just something i've wonder about when i've got nothing better to do!

weezl74

3onitsway wrote: »

:(Yey for Islas teeth.

Weezl :wave: Have you still got your Mrs Dentist hat on? I have a question.
J gets Duraphat 2800ppm flouride toothpaste on prescription from the dentist because brushing his back teeth is a battle, and the dentist says prevention would definately be better for J that trying to do any treatment. Any treatment would have to be under GA.

So, if this toothpaste is so good - why isn't it good for everyone? (other than it tastes like crap!) From memory, I think our toothpaste is half the ppm of flouride, and the childrens one half again.

J btw has lovely teeth, no fillings or missing ones. (Touch wood).
L on the other hand had a couple of fillings in baby teeth and one extraction.

Just something i've wonder about when i've got nothing better to do!

hmmmn I think we've gone into territory where I'd just be guessing! I'll ask DH for you though when he comes home He's on a hospital based course today...