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How To Prevent Baby-Bottle Mouth

by: Shalu | last updated: July 16, 2009
Category: Health & Safety: Health & Baby Care | Tags: bottle-feeding, breast feeding
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How To Prevent Baby-Bottle Mouth

There’s nothing cuter than a first-grader whose grin reveals a charming space where his two front teeth used to be. But there’s nothing cute about a toddler whose two front teeth have been lost years before their time to baby-bottle mouth. Fortunately, baby bottle mouth is completely preventable. It occurs most often in the first two years of life, when teeth are most vulnerable and most frequently as a result of a baby’s falling asleep regularly with a bottle in his mouth. With little swallowing occurring, the last sips baby takes before falling asleep pool in his mouth and remain in contact with his teeth for hours. Now, I am going to tell you how to avoid baby-bottle mouth.

 
Never give baby glucose water, even before baby’s teeth come in, so that he won’t become “addicted”. The same applies to such sugary drinks as cranberry juice cocktail, fruit punches, fruit drinks, or fruit juice drinks.
 
Once your baby’s teeth come in, don’t put him to bed for the night or down for a nap with a bottle of milk or juice. An occasional lapse won’t cause a problem, but repeated lapse will. If you must give him a bottle to take to bed, make it a bottle of plain tap water, which will not harm the teeth and if it is fluoridated will help strengthen them.
 
Don’t let your baby use a bottle of milk or juice as a pacifier, to crawl or lie around with the suck on at will. All day nipping can be as harmful to the teeth as night time sucking. Bottles should be considered as a part of meal and at appropriate times.
 
Don’t allow a baby who sleeps in your bed to remain at your breast all night and nurse on and off.
 
Wean your baby from breast or bottle at about 12 months.

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