>
>
>I had a client in WIC yesterday that mentioned something very interesting to
>me.  She said that her now 2 1/2 y/o was exclusively BF until 2 y/o.  She
>recently saw the dentist and had all of her top front teeth capped.  The
>dentist stated this was due to night nursing and extended nursing.  Mom
>stated that she thought she was being a great mom by nursing her to 2.  She
>said she was a person that wasn't going to have any kids but has breastfed
>both and the 2nd until 2.
>

Kudos to this mom for doing that!  :-)

I don't know where any of the "research" is, but I have heard that
breastmilk doesn't cause tooth decay in and of itself, in fact teeth
immersed in breast milk came out better than those immersed in
water...*but* if the breastmilk was mixed with sugar, then decay
happened that was just about as bad as the formula, or cow's milk (or
whatever else) decay.

The moral of this story, I took it, was to always brush before bed, and
no snacks after that:  only water or breastmilk.  Well, brush more often
than that, fine, but especially before bed.

Fio.

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