Please, I ask no judgement from the get go here. This is an extremely difficult situation for me.
My 2 y.o. ds weaned about a month after his 2nd bday, that was about 2 mos. ago. I had supply problems ALWAYS, so my milk is totally gone already.
He has cow's milk allergy and soy milk allergy, so we give him rice milk instead. He does not EVER drink juice or any other beverages other than water and rice milk. We are on city water. Dh and I have excellent teeth, dh got his first cavity at age 28, I'm 32 and have still never had one.
Ds has autism, and sleep is a huge problem area, always has been. We cannot co-sleep, as I don't sleep when he's in the bed with me, and lack of sleep has been proven dangerous for me on a psychological level, so cosleeping is just not an option for everyone's safety. At night before bed and before his nap, he gets a bottle of warm rice milk. It helps lull him to sleep and helps him sleep longer. He guzzles down about 6 oz. and then I rock him for about 20 minutes while he sucks his thumb and falls asleep.
Ds had his first dentist appt. on Tuesday, and his teeth are fine. No cavities. The dentist had a cow about the rice milk before bed (I knew she would, I should have just lied or not told her). She wants us to cut it out entirely. Dh and I have tried changing up ds's routine (which if any of you know autism, you know that change in routine is a bad bad thing) to make it so we brush his teeth after his bottle. His sleep is extremely disrupted as a result.
We brush his teeth first thing in the morning and at night before bed (before night time bottle, though).
His diet is extremely limited due to a sensory-based feeding disorder, so changing his diet is not an option.
This whole bottle stoppage thing has just turned our household on its' head. I don't want ds to get cavities, but sleep is a premium around here, it is a MUST that ds and dh and I sleep well. We cannot compromise sleep.
Dh and some of the people in my autism support group say to just keep giving the bottle and keep up with the good dental hygeine, that the dentist doesn't live in our house so she has no idea what she's asking us to do.
WWYD?
My 2 y.o. ds weaned about a month after his 2nd bday, that was about 2 mos. ago. I had supply problems ALWAYS, so my milk is totally gone already.
He has cow's milk allergy and soy milk allergy, so we give him rice milk instead. He does not EVER drink juice or any other beverages other than water and rice milk. We are on city water. Dh and I have excellent teeth, dh got his first cavity at age 28, I'm 32 and have still never had one.
Ds has autism, and sleep is a huge problem area, always has been. We cannot co-sleep, as I don't sleep when he's in the bed with me, and lack of sleep has been proven dangerous for me on a psychological level, so cosleeping is just not an option for everyone's safety. At night before bed and before his nap, he gets a bottle of warm rice milk. It helps lull him to sleep and helps him sleep longer. He guzzles down about 6 oz. and then I rock him for about 20 minutes while he sucks his thumb and falls asleep.
Ds had his first dentist appt. on Tuesday, and his teeth are fine. No cavities. The dentist had a cow about the rice milk before bed (I knew she would, I should have just lied or not told her). She wants us to cut it out entirely. Dh and I have tried changing up ds's routine (which if any of you know autism, you know that change in routine is a bad bad thing) to make it so we brush his teeth after his bottle. His sleep is extremely disrupted as a result.
We brush his teeth first thing in the morning and at night before bed (before night time bottle, though).
His diet is extremely limited due to a sensory-based feeding disorder, so changing his diet is not an option.
This whole bottle stoppage thing has just turned our household on its' head. I don't want ds to get cavities, but sleep is a premium around here, it is a MUST that ds and dh and I sleep well. We cannot compromise sleep.
Dh and some of the people in my autism support group say to just keep giving the bottle and keep up with the good dental hygeine, that the dentist doesn't live in our house so she has no idea what she's asking us to do.
WWYD?
