I believe chip they were referencing the baby teeth, which can be rotted. Now you and your wife I would imagine meet long after your and her baby teeth were gone. Which means that she took better care of her permanent teeth than you did.
Not just a myth.
Baby Bottle Tooth Decay - American Dental Association - ADA.org
Tooth decay is a disease that begins with cavity-causing bacteria being passed from the mother (or primary caregiver) who has these bacteria in their mouth to the infant. These bacteria are passed through the saliva. When the mother puts the baby?s feeding spoon in her mouth, or cleans a pacifier in her mouth, the bacteria are passed to the baby.
Another factor for tooth decay is the frequent, prolonged exposure of the baby?s teeth to liquids that contain sugar, like sweetened water and fruit juice and potentially milk, breast milk and formula. Tooth decay can occur when the baby is put to bed with a bottle, or when a bottle is used as a pacifier for a fussy baby. The sugary liquids pool around the teeth while the child sleeps. Bacteria in the mouth use these sugars as food. They then produce acids that attack the teeth. Each time your child drinks these liquids, acids attack for 20 minutes or longer. After multiple attacks, the teeth can decay.
Pacifiers dipped in sugar or honey can also lead to tooth decay since the sugar or honey can provide food for the bacteria?s acid attacks.
A lot of things can cause tooth decay. You guys would have us believe one should only give their kids whole wheat and lettuce apparently.
I don't see that letting one's kids drink milk in a bottle until they are 7 in the DR will have any more adverse effect than them growing up in the States and eating what kids commonly do.
BTW, both my other daughters who both drank milk, mostly chocolate after they were 2, until they were 4 have no cavities. Next.
I think you are missing the point. It's not just milk that people put in the bottles but sweetened drinks. If you give these to children before they go to bed and they fall to sleep and don't brush their teeth their quite likely to have serious tooth decay. It has nothing to do with milk.
The thread is about older children drinking with baby bottles. Mine did and do and I have seen no adverse effects.
The thread is about older children drinking with baby bottles. Mine did and do and I have seen no adverse effects.
64 years old, never given a baby bottle and still find the need to be breastfed......NEXT...
B in Santiago
There is no shame for kids here using diapers or bottles until they are 4 or 5. Dominicans think kids should be kids and pay no attention to it.
Diapers until 5 ? Wow!!
Is this 'here' specific to 'here', your house?
There can never be shame in innocence, the child knows no better. The adult responsible for the child is a different matter!
If I made no effort, I would be ashamed of myself.
I fail to see what damage is done and am sorry you are so narrow minded. You are probably better off raising your kids in sunny ole England where everything is perfect and people know how to behave, especially at football matches.