i thought this had stopped years ago as well it is a choking hazard as hunker says but also they are full of sugar and there is evidence to show that dental decay can start before the teeth arrive so it would be really bad for their teeth as well. Can't she just give more milk or food before bed if she is that keen to shove the food in?
My MIL used to do it I think - so perhaps they are taking advice from their parents?
Wouldn't have been the 1960s though, more recently than that.
You are right that it is dangerous. Can sympathise with the getting up at night though! We have just come out the other side of the 4 month sleep regression.
Just looked at those pictures...and now freaking out!
My DD (16 months) has a little half moon sized yellow mark on her two front teeth. She has had this for awhile. I took her to the dentist when she was 12 months and the dentist couldn't really get a good look so he said to wait until she is 2 when all her teeth are in.
But the thing is...she has never ever been left with a bottle. I always gave her one in my lap...she went down to 3 bottles at 9 months and stopped night feeds then too. She is now totally off the bottle...she does not eat sweets and almost never has juice and when she does it is 100% pure juice and totally watered down!
Also, I have always brushed her teeth twice a day...and even after her bedtime bottle most times...
One picture looks kinda like the small yellow halfmoons...
Does she have baby bottle mouth and if so how the hell did she get it????
It does happen. I have a perfectly sane, fairly well educated friend who bf during the day, but put baby rice and rusks in bottle at night from 6 weeks onwards on the advice of her MIL because she wanted some sleep.
It is not good for many reasons, but a difficult one to intervene on.
I read in Penelope Leach that it was very bad practice to do this because the babe wouldn't get its thirst satisfied without having to 'eat' extra calories contained in the solids. So if it cried later because thirsty, the mum might think he/she was still hungry, and propagate a vicious circle where poor baby couldn't get thirst quenched but would be getting fatter and fatter, then presumably appetite would grow accordingly and really was hungry.
I might be talking shit but seems to make sense to me! After all you can't add rusk to boobs if you are breast-feeding!!
I've known four year olds who have had to be fitted with dentures as they've had every (rotten) tooth removed from their head. Still the parents will say to the child "You'll be able to buy so many sweets with the money the tooth fairy will bring you".
This is common Im afraid and as a nursery nurse some years ago in a deprived area I was shocked at how 'normal' people seem to think it is,tbh im inclined to think its the warm sugary texture that sends a baby into relaxed state as opposed to a full tummy that induces a big sleep.
Its awful Im aware that many families do this during the day too when the mum has to return to work (work at home sewing)when the baby isnt very old.
I did think at the time it was that they simply didnt know it wsnt good for dental health,allergies and indeed bowels but even after informed advice it continued and we would regulrly visit homes to see babies propped on the settee with ruskymilk bottles balnced on cushions drip gloopy feeding babies.
i know putting rusks into bottles is done in italy. my italian sister in law was trying to persuade me to do it for my dd when i was visiting there last summer. she looked shocked when i said it wasnt common practise in the UK! although i must point out that DD was 18 months at the time. i'm not at what age in Italy they do this from.
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, but in a totally non-judgemental way of course. 
