When did your toddler first get morning breath?!

[LCBMAX]

It happened here this week at 2.5 years. That sweet baby breath was gone. It wasn't foul, just a little whiff of morning stale breath. I was wondering if it's a sign of something other than growing up, but my son has an amazingly clean diet and loves toothbrushing every night, so I don't know what else it could be. We nightweaned 5 months ago.

When did it happen for your child?

[peainthepod]

20 months for us. It happened at exactly the same time that he weaned himself.

[Thing1Thing2]

DS is 26 months and still has that wonderful baby breath every morning. We are currently in the process of nightweaning. If what I'm reading is true, I don't have too much more time to enjoy his nice baby breath

[Llyra]

I may be totally wrong, because I know really nothing about this, but I was under the impression that "morning breath" is the result of bacteria that live in the mouth, and that babies don't have it, but it gets introduced later. I remember a mama saying on here that she avoided kissing her kids on the mouth to avoid passing on these bacteria, and I think that's where I got the idea.

My kids all started getting stinky breath in the mornings around 3 1/2. Actually, DD1 was older than that, I think. I just noticed DS this morning having morning breath for the first time, I think-- he's 3 1/2.

[MissMommyNiceNice]

DS1 has had bad morning breath for like a year now, like 2.5. Now that I think about it, probably around when he started to wean.

[~savah~]

DD started getting it when we night weaned, around 26 months. Although it's not consistently bad.

[hollytheteacher]

ds (will be 3 next month) weaned two months ago, but he still has sweet smelling breath in the morning.

[LCBMAX]

Isn't this an interesting trend - weaning or nightweaning leading to morning breath for many of our kids?

I'm surprised that I'm surprised. It does make sense.