I don't know if this is dental or breastfeeding or nighttime parenting...
My daughter is 22 months old and 3 dentists have told me that breastmilk, especially at night is making her teeth worse. 6 months ago, she was pretty much latched on all night long and now she wakes every 2-3 hours and nursed for just a few minutes before detaching herself, or else I remove my nipple from her mouth.
I think she has defective teeth and breastmilk or not, she'd still be having these same issues. HOWEVER, it does make sense to me that if she is latched on all night long and has milk pooling in her mouth, that might not be a good thing, unless breastmilk has more ANTI cavity properties than cariogenic ones.
Baby's dad is pushing me to night wean as he says it will make it easier on him--she had her first overnight visit last weekend and was up several times.
I don't know what my question is....I feel like I need some guidance. I don't know what to do.
Are there any benefits to extended nighttime nursing???
My middle child weaned himself at 15 months during an ear infection and I took that opportunity to wean my 2 1/2 yr. old daughter--I told her for several days that the milk was going to get "bad" and I painted "Thumz" for thumbsucking and nailbiting on my nipples and one time did the job. Now I think that was kind of mean, but I was needing to go on some meds. and she was old enough and smart enough to understand.
My daughter is 22 months old and 3 dentists have told me that breastmilk, especially at night is making her teeth worse. 6 months ago, she was pretty much latched on all night long and now she wakes every 2-3 hours and nursed for just a few minutes before detaching herself, or else I remove my nipple from her mouth.
I think she has defective teeth and breastmilk or not, she'd still be having these same issues. HOWEVER, it does make sense to me that if she is latched on all night long and has milk pooling in her mouth, that might not be a good thing, unless breastmilk has more ANTI cavity properties than cariogenic ones.
Baby's dad is pushing me to night wean as he says it will make it easier on him--she had her first overnight visit last weekend and was up several times.
I don't know what my question is....I feel like I need some guidance. I don't know what to do.
Are there any benefits to extended nighttime nursing???
My middle child weaned himself at 15 months during an ear infection and I took that opportunity to wean my 2 1/2 yr. old daughter--I told her for several days that the milk was going to get "bad" and I painted "Thumz" for thumbsucking and nailbiting on my nipples and one time did the job. Now I think that was kind of mean, but I was needing to go on some meds. and she was old enough and smart enough to understand.
