Drink in his cot

[MangoJojo]

Was at a friends the other day as they were putting their 14 month old to bed. They gave her a bottle of milk and left it in the cot with her.
my son has his milk then I put him in his cot without any drink. I kind of assume he’ll just end up soaking himself and all his bedding but it has got me wondering if most people leave milk/water in the cot for the toddlers overnight?

I used to leave one of those no spill sippy cups in my dd2 cot because she would wake up in the night for a drink nearly every night. This was when she was 2-3years and I was exhausted from night wakes still happening.
It worked. She started grabbing the cup herself and going back to sleep. Even now at 8 she takes a drink to bed with her

I was thinking of this the other day. How years ago people would always leave a bottle in the cot. I couldn't do it because my little one would just spill it everywhere and it's not worth the hassle cleaning bedding daily😂

Mine take water to bed in a no spill water bottle and have done since they were about 1. It stops them waking overnight and asking for it. Never had issues with spilling and both were dry at night at 3. I wouldn’t give milk though- not only do they need to brush their teeth after having it, I wouldn’t want them drinking it upon waking when it was 12 hours old.

I wouldn’t leave milk in a cot. I only started leaving water when they were in a proper bed but tbh they didn’t wake up asking for it when they were in a cot so wasnt an issue.

The 3 year old has water in a non-spill bottle.

I've tried with the 1yr old, but at bedtime they have their drink and then want it out of the cot so it hasn't worked in the same way 😂

Yes to no spill cups with water in bed. I hear them wake, take a drink and go back to sleep. Really was a game changer with our first born.
Idk about milk tho but I guess why not

I used to give my kids a bottle with milk in at bedtimes and they still take a cup of milk up at bedtime lol xx

Seems like I’m in the minority then. My friends have her milk in a normal tommee tippee bottle. I admit I thought it was a bit odd and it wouldn’t be something I’d want her to drink in the morning but perhaps they take it out at some point.
My son seems happy enough without a drink at the moment but he does rely on hi dummy for sleep, so maybe when the time comes (which I keep putting off) I can swap his dummy for a water cup?

I admit I thought it was a bit odd and it wouldn’t be something I’d want her to drink in the morning but perhaps they take it out at some point. my kids used to drink pretty much all their milk before falling to sleep so never had the worry of them waking and drinking yucky milk, but yes i took the bottles/cups out when i went up to bed, so they didn’t roll over onto them in the night mostly xx

We used to leave DD with an insulated sippy cup, was milk at first then weaned her onto water. She’s 6 now and still has a water bottle by her bed.

I don’t really understand your post and why you thought it was odd. We all do things differently right?

Because, as I said, milk is not going to last all night. And being in that sort of bottle would likely leak out and go over the bedding.

We never did but we would usually leave water in the bedroom as sometimes they have woken and asked for a drink. So we can pass it to them and take it back. My kids would definitely have soaked bedding with a drink in it, DC2 is 2.5 and I still wouldn't trust him with one, although tbf he'd almost certainly lob it out of the cot anyway. I do know lots of people who left drinks in the cots without issue though.

More common in the 80s where people would leave bottles of milk or juice in a cot, because there wasn't the same understanding about looking after teeth.

I don't think it's generally something people do now, all the information parents get highlights the importance of brushing teeth before bed.

Well doesn’t the child drink the milk in bed before they fall asleep as opposed to letting it last until the morning?

More common in the 80s where people would leave bottles of milk or juice in a cot, because there wasn't the same understanding about looking after teeth

There was exactly the same understanding of looking after teeth in the 1980s.

It wasn't the Stone Age FFS.

This is so so bad for their teeth

I'm not convinced there was the same understanding at a wider population level. My parents are not stupid people but they happily gave me milky sugary tea as a child, ricicles and Frosties for breakfast every day, sunny delight in lunchboxes, 20p for the school tuck shop which sold penny mixtures and biscuits only, and let me brush my teeth by myself from primary one onwards. Obviously I was shoving the brush about randomly without cleaning properly.

As for the OP, I breastfed so don't know what it's like with bottle feeding but my child was drinking from open cups from starting weaning at 6 months. He had a sippy cup for drinking from by himself around the house or when out and about, but I wouldn't have left him with it in bed at night. I suppose the risk is tiny but could they not dry drown if they're rolling about in all sorts of positions drinking from a bottle with no supervision?

As for it being milk, they shouldn't be doing that anyway as it will be rotting his teeth. If they think the bottle is safe then it should be water only after teeth being brushed at bedtime. Breast milk doesn't rot their teeth the same way as far as I know, but I night weaned at one year old anyway and it was water after teeth brushing only.

I suppose the risk is tiny but could they not dry drown if they're rolling about in all sorts of positions drinking from a bottle with no supervision?
If you give a straw cup and it’s only half full they won’t actually get anything from it if they try to drink lying down, the bottle needs to be upright-ish, so I personally felt comfortable with that.

And definitely agree that people weren’t as hot on teeth stuff in the 90s. Drinking plain water wasn’t even an option when I was at primary school- orange or blackcurrant squash only and that was before the sugar free versions existed.

There really wasn't. Ribena in bottles was very common.

Everyone is complaining about milk before bed rotting teeth— Does Milk Cause Tooth Decay in Children?
Cow’s milk contains lactose, which is a type of sugar. Consuming sugar can lead to cavities. Logically, then, drinking cow’s milk must lead to cavities, right?
Actually, no.
Studies have repeatedly found that cow’s milk is not cariogenic, meaning that milk does notincrease the risk of cavities in children. It turns out that, while milk does contain lactose, it also contains components that counteract the harmful effects of lactose.

Not in the 1980s.

The 1960s, yes.