"your aim should be to make the changeover from breast or bottle to cup by your baby's first birthday..."

[Tutter]

...help to establish good eating patterns, and help avoid speech problems"

according to the leaflet i was given today at ds2's 8 month review

sounds like they're discouraging bfing beyond a year to me

hc, it's called "cool kids use cups (a better way to give drinks to your baby - 6 months +)"

i'm sending the orig off to a certain lurker

here you go - these are the people who produce the leaflet

Total crap. I'd reallt like to know what their definiton of "good eating patterns" is & how the biological norm for humans (ie bfing) can't help establish this...and what their references are that continuing breastfeeding beyond one year causes speech problems

A lurkermurker, tutter?

you can bet that the original message was simply to change from bottle to cup

then someone wearing a pc hat came and stuck their nose in...

i couldn't possibly say, carrot

argh!
what a load of old toss.

well dd2 was still having bottles at 2 and is currently wailing mummmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeee down the stairs so there are no problems with her fecking speech

I'm pretty sure the advice is actually change from BOTLLE to cup when 1 year (but carry on BF if you like)

The idea being that liquid given by bottles can contribute to tooth decay.

Apologies if I'm wrong but I'm certain BF didnt come into this advice at all

yeah right, tell that to my 2, 3 and 4yos who wont give up their bottles a bedtime without a serious amount of tears and upset... (i do not now think of making them do it till they want to)

bm can cause tooth decay too, no? and so can drinking drinks with sugar content (so anything other than water) in a cup or an elephant or a castle in scotland as far as i understand it...

if you listen to dentists for diet advice tho.,.. theres all sorts they say is the devils work i have no intention of cutting out the diet. like fruit and raisins to name but two. theres more to the human body than teeth alone!

No BM doesn't cause tooth decay afaiaa.

BM does contain sugars like all milks do, but it also contains something that helps prevent tooth decay... humans are supposed to have breast milk after they get their teeth & nature rarely gets it that wrong

..also the action of breastfeeding means the breast is drawn back into the mouth behind the teeth & as the baby is suckling they are swallowing so the milk doesn't pool in the mouth around the teeth as it does with bottle feeding.

Kellymom has some good links & info on this:
www.kellymom.com/bf/older-baby/tooth-decay.html