Bed time milk

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If yours still have bedtime milk at 2 and 3 year olds- what do you serve it in?

A cup with a spout or whatever they're called nowadays .

Haha! There's so many options now isn't there?! Gets confusing, hence my asking.

My 3 year old drinks out of a Tum Tum straw cup.

TUM TUM Tippy Up Free Flow Sippy Cup (No Valve), Sippy Cup for Toddlers, 200ml, BPA Free (Betsy Bear S3) https://amzn.eu/d/cpUbK5l

A cup with a sparkly curly straw with a unicorn on it. The straw was bribery to give up bottles.

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Watching this with interest. My 23 month old still categorically refuses milk out of anything but a bottle. She is a sporadic eater, some days she barely eats anything so I want her to have the milk, but I'm concerned about the bottle at her age.

@Magenta82 just go cold Turkey. It’s no good for their teeth.

I use a tommee Tippee sippee cup for milk morning and night for my 2yo.

Do you think the risk to her teeth outweighs the benefits of the vitamins, calcium, protein, carbs and fat she is getting from what is often the only significant nutrition I can get into her on some days?

Of course not.

A tommee tippee cup with the lid taken off (so it's just a normal cup with handles) or in a mug for my 3 year old.

@Magenta82

A child between 2-3 should be getting nutrition from food eaten throughout the day, one cup of milk at night isn't going to provide that much benefit.

At that age children should
Be brushing at night time and nothing should be given after.

Just look up baby bottle caries. All caused by night time feeding.

Children age 2 can have a bottle of milk and brush their teeth after...

@Magenta82 I feel your pain. We have a tricky eater and she still has a bottle of milk at bed. Attempts to swap to another cup or similar have been a disaster. She brushes her teeth after, I can't see the issue.

My 2 yo recently started to refuse cups but will happily drink from a normal glass. So we are using those with careful monitoring (no breakages yet)

This is my stance, but people go on like it's a terrible thing. Is a bottle worse than a cup somehow?

Milk 20 mins before brushing teeth then only water after. The milk clings to teeth as does all food decaying them ideally a proper cup straws and spouted cups let milk stay around the teeth longer.

It is because milk stays around the teeth longer and if they fall asleep with it the milk pools around the tubes for sinuses increasing the risk of infection and glue ear as well as the risk of inhaling fluid into lungs.

My almost 2 yr old has it in either a tommee tippee sippy cup, sippy bottle (non-spill) or a straw cup.

Wait 20 minutes and foods and fats soften the enamel because of the action of saliva

My ds had milk from a bottle at bedtime until around that age. It took him a couple of minutes to drink it and he had his teeth brushed before bed. I can't see how it could be any different to having it out of a cup or from a breast.

I don't really know why I want to move away from the baby bottle - not really worried about teeth or whatever just feel I want to.

Ended up getting them a basic tommee tippe beaker and they haven't moaned, they just keep wanting more milk!

Ds will be 3 in December and still has his bedtime milk in a bottle.
We just brush his teeth after he's drunk it before he goes to sleep.
We've tried countless cups, mugs, straws and downright bribery but he isn't having it.
Don't see the big deal tbh, he'll stop when he's ready and in the meantime it'd not affecting his teeth.

Do whatever works for you and dc OP

My dc are 3 and 5, both autistic and both have a big bottle of milk morning and night (I think it’s a 340ml bottle the mam ones). Teeth are perfect And it’s the only way they get the required amount of fluid And calories a day

My 17 month old has milk during the night still. It's normal. He'll stop eventually!