Brushing teeth and night feeding

[LittleOne76]

Just wondering, I feed my DS during the night and he's got three teeth now at 9months. Do people doing the same brush your DC's teeth before bed?

Hi, I fed during the night after DS got teeth and then just before bed when I was cutting down at 18 months and I never bothered with teeth brushing after, it never crossed my mind really! Gosh does that make me sound bad?! I think I started brushing after I had finished with the breast feeding and she was just having her tea and a drink of water or non mummy milk. It would have been too much hassle otherwise you know reviving her with cold water in her mouth and cold bathroom! It was so much easier and lovely and snuggly to finish the feed and slip her into bed. (Aah them were the days!)

Just realised that I have put DS It should say DD!

You don't need to worry if you a breastfeeding.

If it's bottles, you need to brush teeth after milk in the evening, and ideally not let them have milk in bed. At 9 months I wouldn't worry too much, but I'd only offer water in the night by 12 months.

My dentist gives me no end of grief for this, she told me I had to stop Bf-ing at 12 months 'for his teeth' and just looked at me as if I was the worst mum ever. At his last appt she said 'one to watch' and then said 'well, it's because of the breastfeeding at night' and again looked sad.

I think she's crazy, I mean can she honestly tell that any issues are to do with the bf-ing and not the haribo I feed him every hour??

It gets me down though, if I'm honest.

Pull up, your dentist is talking rubbish. There are plenty of people here who can give you links to tell you why bf does not cause tooth decay - even a quick search on here will bring up similar threads with all the info you need. :)

I'd really like some links if anyone could post some. It really gets to me.

Sorry for the hijack OP, this obv struck a bit of a nerve with me!