Looks like I made an error. Got my urls mixed up. The comment I read written by Dr. Bill Sears re: dental caries and night nursing is at: http://iparenting.com/sears/answers/nightwean.htm it is at iparenting, not ivillage. My apologies ... Dr. Sears responds there to a question about an older toddler breastfeeding and developing dental caries. His response begins... "Yes, night nursing can cause tooth decay. For years, pediatricians and pediatric dentists have noticed a condition called nursing bottle carries, meaning tooth decay caused by nighttime bottles of juice or formula. The reason for this is when an infant falls asleep the natural rinsing action of the saliva lessens, which allows the sugary formula and juice to settle on the teeth, thus causing decay. The incidence of nursing carries is certainly much less in breastfed infants, but it does happen. After all, breastmilk is a very sweet and naturally sugary substance. ...." and continues on. I thought it was informative and was not what I thought to be the case. I have some questions. Kathleen Kathleen B. Bruce, BSN, IBCLC co-owner Lactnet Independent Consultant http://homepages.together.net/~kbruce/kbblact.html LACTNET Archives http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/lactnet.html *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html