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wiping toddler teeth?

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I was just curious if anyone has successfully had the little one willingly agree to (after teething, soothing warm breast milk) allowed you to wipe the teeth off???

She just wakes up screaming. (Oh, this is at naptime and bedtime, by the way.)... ??? So, we sort of do not do this? Am I the most terrible person in the Universe? Are her teeth going to rot out of her head before they even grow in??? She's teething, so she drools alot. I wipe during the day. and yes, she cries!

Oh. she did not have many teeth like other babies. She only had 4 teeth at 10 or 12 mo. She is 28 mo. old. She is just now getting like 4 more teeth on the bottom and two on top , all at the same time!! Yikes! a whole entire mouthful of teeth! !! total at least 12 teeth now...

Oh, and of course, "EVERYONE" wants me to discontinue the toddler breast milk. not because of the teeth or the teething ("THEY" do not have to listen to her teething fuss and scream without soothing milkies.) but because she is just too old for this breast milk stuff.
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I guess I'm not understanding... you "wipe" her teeth?? Like instead of brushing twice a day I guess?
post #3 of 4
I don't bother. Milk is ejected toward the back of the throat, different than from a bottle or a cup where it might pool in the mouth and lead to tooth decay. We brush before bed after meals, and then nurse to sleep w/o bothering to wipe down any teeth.
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FWIW, I don't think my mom EVER did this with us -- not wiping or brushing until we had a pretty full set of teeth in there.
(She really thinks we Mamas today go crazy with all the things we are "supposed to do" or "have to do" or "must never do"!)
I think she said that real brushing started at 2.5 or 3, when we could grab the brush and "help". 2 of 3 kids had no cavities until our late 20s! (Kid 3 was a sugar junkie, so I don't think it was breastfeeding him and not wiping his teeth that caused a problem! He was breastfed until ~2 years.)
Honestly, I wouldn't sweat it.
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