Brushing teeth
If you little one still has milk/formula before bed do you clean teeth before or after milk?
We were doing it before as part of the bedtime routine, bath, teeth, book, milk, bed, but I’m not sure how good that is for her teeth but worried if I change it will wake her up! Help! What’s everyone else doing?
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We do milk, teeth, story, bed. But she frequently has another bottle of milk before she actually falls asleep 🙄
I’ve started to do milk then teeth as I keep getting told off by all the health professionals about it! 😂 now I try to avoid giving another milk before bed and have recently started giving water in his milk bottle instead as I think he just likes the soothing sucking motion before bed sometimes. Some days I do have to give another bottle of milk though!
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My son has a bedtime milk but half hour before he goes down. He has it while watching dory’s reef cam and having wind down time so it’s all before he goes into his room. We do bath, milk, teeth (I just brush in living room so not a lot of back and forth and he still swallows all the toothpaste, despite encouragement to spit it out 😂) story and bed. Ultimately you gotta do what works but it’s not great for them to have the milk sitting on their teeth all night and it does make it more likely that they’ll get cavities sooner if you don’t brush after the milk. It’s the same in the morning, I do milk, breakfast and then brush teeth xx