Best bedtime drink for 12mth old?

jellyhead

there are 4 and 5 year olds at our school (not many though!) with rotten black milk teeth, looks awful. the school dentist has not been for years though.

my son needed something doing to one of his teeth that had not calcified, not quite a filling. he was mortified, so embarassed that the dentist might think he did not brush his teeth properly, poor thing! dentist said he had seen worse, even in tiny kids.

Rachie_B

jellyhead wrote:

there are 4 and 5 year olds at our school (not many though!) with rotten black milk teeth, looks awful. the school dentist has not been for years though.

my son needed something doing to one of his teeth that had not calcified, not quite a filling. he was mortified, so embarassed that the dentist might think he did not brush his teeth properly, poor thing! dentist said he had seen worse, even in tiny kids.

its so sad to see there was a little boy @ the pre school i used to run and @ the age of 3 he had to have teeth out !! all the front ones were black and crumbling :eek: :mad:

he was always swigging either choc milk or some kind of juice from a bottle!! wouldnt drink from a cup his mum said :rolleyes: he did for us though

jellyhead

there are 2 little girls in our street who both had all the front baby teeth removed as soon as the school dentist saw their black rotting teeth. wish they came to school every year to catch the kids in reception who have no toothbrush and give their parents advice.

takes a lot of sugar to make teeth that rotten though.

Toothsmith

jellyhead wrote:

takes a lot of sugar to make teeth that rotten though.

Not necessarily.

A little sugar at the wrong times can be just as damaging.

Frequency, not quantity is the key.

kittykat100

When I was a toddler we were given milky tea!

Toothsmith

A good drink. Naturally fluoridated! (Tea has quite a bit of fluoride in it) Never be tempted to pollute it with sugar though! My kids like tea, and putting sugar in it was just never an option.

EDIT. The caffine might not make it such a good bedtime drink though for smaller kids.

liney

Slightly off topic, but about toddler teeth: My 2 year old has just started playing up when i brush his teeth. He will have a little try himself and i let him clean mine, but screams blue murder when i try to clean them for him. Mom says it's a phase (probably right) but should i physically hold him and do it despite to protests? Did anyone else have this problem?

Toothsmith

The thing I recommend to parents during this 'phase' is to make sure you always win!

Not by holding them down, but by pretending that whatever you can do was all you wanted to do anyway!

Let him do his, and play like you do, then have a go.

Let him create and kick up all he wants. But as soon as you've touched a tooth with the bristles, that's all you wanted to do, thank you, clever boy, lots of praise.

He will think, "well, that was a waste of energy! And she did it anyway!"

The message should get through, and he'll calm down and you'll gradually get more and more done.

The LAST thing you want to do is give him the message that kicking off will stop you from doing what you had to do.

You could try with little or no toothpaste for a while. Sometimes it can be that that the kid is objecting to, and if they are wriggly, it can go all over the place if there is more than a smear on the brush!

Also, rather than attacking the kid from the front, if you sit down on the loo, or the side of the bath and have him standing up against your knees but facing AWAY from you, and get him to lower his head backwards onto your knee, (A bit like if your knee is a dental chair). This is a much comfier way for you both to do this. You can control his head with one hand leaving the other free for the toothbrush. Visibility all the way to the back teeth is better as well.

Hope this helps.

mrsb_5

My daughter takes milk to bed with her in a cup and she is nearly 4, it's more to stop her getting hungry in the night really as she isn't a big eater at tea time.

At the end of the day you as their mummy know your lil ones best and what they need or want, If he wants milk at nighttime then stay with the formula - it's not doing anything better for him than normal milk but it isn't doing anything bad either

If you really want ot get him off of it then try what someoen above said about a tiny pinch of cinnamon or mixed spice in it

mrsb_5

mrsb wrote:

My daughter takes milk to bed with her in a cup and she is nearly 4, it's more to stop her getting hungry in the night really as she isn't a big eater at tea time.

At the end of the day you as their mummy know your lil ones best and what they need or want, If he wants milk at nighttime then stay with the formula - it's not doing anything better for him than normal milk but it isn't doing anything bad either

If you really want ot get him off of it then try what someoen above said about a tiny pinch of cinnamon or mixed spice in it

sorry didn't realise there were 2 pages to this and you were sorted already:o :rotfl: