It a good article, but sometimes those thing are printed for parents who don't take care of their kids and are often overexagerated. Mouth rot is generally due to severe neglect on the parents end and not just to what a kid drinks from. There are a lot of parents out there that are poorly educated and don't pay attention to their kids. I agree with most of the article though. :-)
i found this article interesting...my baby sister had to have teeth pulled b/c of bottle rot. When should I transition my formula-fed baby from a bottle to a cup? Expert AnswersSusan Sorensen, pediatrician By the time most babies are about 9 months old, they have the motor skills to drink from a cup, so I recommend starting then. At first, fill a sippy cup with water and let your child experiment with it. Expect him to dribble and spit — that's part of the fun. Within a few weeks, he'll get the hang of it and before you know it, he'll be willing to take all of his drinks from the cup. Work toward a complete transition to the cup by about 13 to 14 months. The longer babies hang onto their bottles, the more attached they get to them. Switch to a cup before your baby is too attached, and you'll save yourself a lot of frustration. If the bottle is your baby's security object and he's reluctant to part with it, let him choose a special sippy cup, maybe one that has pictures of a favorite character or animal on it. What's so horrible about toddlers drinking from bottles? If you've ever seen a picture of a child with bottle tooth decay, a.k.a. "bottle rot," you'll toss out every single one of your baby's bottles faster than you can say root canal! A child's teeth are susceptible to decay if he habitually nurses a drink with sugar in it — formula, milk, or juice. Every time he takes a drink, natural bacteria in his mouth feed on these sugars and attack the teeth for 20 minutes. If he's taking sips from a bottle every few minutes for an hour, his teeth are exposed to the sugars for at least 80 minutes. Over time, that causes tooth decay. Children are less likely to nurse drinks for long periods of time if they're offered in sippy cups. The best way to avoid bottle rot is to give your child his drink and have him finish it within about 20 minutes. Then use a toothbrush or washcloth to wipe his teeth clean. Never put a baby in his crib with a bottle or sippy cup. If he falls asleep, tooth-decay causing sugars can pool in his mouth for hours.
I've read some research that suggested taking the bottle away too soon can lead to problems with oral fixations later in life. The same research suggested that the child should initiate giving up the bottle or pacifier. Anyway, that was while back...... The girls were off by 3. They discovered straws, so giving up the bottle was pretty painless. :-) Two would have been ideal, but it just wasn't going to happen that way.
There are camps that frown on bottle feeding, where only the breast will do and they go up HIGH in the ages when I child is still on the breast. Surely surprised me to hear of a child as old as 5 still breast feeding. So, Yahoo much not be with the natural parenting movement.
they should ditch the bottle as sonn as the child can hold a sippy cup...except maybe at bedtime, a bottle of water...unless they are potty training...
dont know, dont care
It a good article, but sometimes those thing are printed for parents who don't take care of their kids and are often overexagerated. Mouth rot is generally due to severe neglect on the parents end and not just to what a kid drinks from. There are a lot of parents out there that are poorly educated and don't pay attention to their kids. I agree with most of the article though. :-)
i found this article interesting...my baby sister had to have teeth pulled b/c of bottle rot. When should I transition my formula-fed baby from a bottle to a cup? Expert AnswersSusan Sorensen, pediatrician By the time most babies are about 9 months old, they have the motor skills to drink from a cup, so I recommend starting then. At first, fill a sippy cup with water and let your child experiment with it. Expect him to dribble and spit — that's part of the fun. Within a few weeks, he'll get the hang of it and before you know it, he'll be willing to take all of his drinks from the cup. Work toward a complete transition to the cup by about 13 to 14 months. The longer babies hang onto their bottles, the more attached they get to them. Switch to a cup before your baby is too attached, and you'll save yourself a lot of frustration. If the bottle is your baby's security object and he's reluctant to part with it, let him choose a special sippy cup, maybe one that has pictures of a favorite character or animal on it. What's so horrible about toddlers drinking from bottles? If you've ever seen a picture of a child with bottle tooth decay, a.k.a. "bottle rot," you'll toss out every single one of your baby's bottles faster than you can say root canal! A child's teeth are susceptible to decay if he habitually nurses a drink with sugar in it — formula, milk, or juice. Every time he takes a drink, natural bacteria in his mouth feed on these sugars and attack the teeth for 20 minutes. If he's taking sips from a bottle every few minutes for an hour, his teeth are exposed to the sugars for at least 80 minutes. Over time, that causes tooth decay. Children are less likely to nurse drinks for long periods of time if they're offered in sippy cups. The best way to avoid bottle rot is to give your child his drink and have him finish it within about 20 minutes. Then use a toothbrush or washcloth to wipe his teeth clean. Never put a baby in his crib with a bottle or sippy cup. If he falls asleep, tooth-decay causing sugars can pool in his mouth for hours.
I've read some research that suggested taking the bottle away too soon can lead to problems with oral fixations later in life. The same research suggested that the child should initiate giving up the bottle or pacifier. Anyway, that was while back...... The girls were off by 3. They discovered straws, so giving up the bottle was pretty painless. :-) Two would have been ideal, but it just wasn't going to happen that way.
That....and the media loves to pick on celebrities for any reason they deem newsworthy. :-/
There are camps that frown on bottle feeding, where only the breast will do and they go up HIGH in the ages when I child is still on the breast. Surely surprised me to hear of a child as old as 5 still breast feeding. So, Yahoo much not be with the natural parenting movement.
If they are old enough to walk and talk they shouldn't be on a bottle.
It depends on the child.
It depends on the child, including issues of speech, security, socialization, oral care, nutrition...
I agree with Officeshrew...
they should ditch the bottle as sonn as the child can hold a sippy cup...except maybe at bedtime, a bottle of water...unless they are potty training...