If your baby is BF or has a bottle to go to sleep or has one right before bed...

Do you brush their teeth before the last BF session/bottle or after?

DD is 9 months and only has 2 little teeth on the bottom so i'm thinking it's not a big deal to brush them before we sit down to BF... but just wondering what to do when she gets more teeth (which seems like it's going to happen soon)? I don't think BFing is going to last much longer so when she eventually gets a bottle at night, is it okay to brush her teeth before her last bottle?


ETA: I might as well ask in this post too... when do you stop BF/bottle right before bed? When they are off bottles? And when they are off bottles, what age should they not need milk right before bed?

Message edited 5/11/2010 8:34:36 AM.

Re: If your baby is BF or has a bottle to go to sleep right before bed...

I can't remember if DS took a bottle before bed at that age, but I didn't brush his teeth til he was 12 months (and was off bottles)

Re: If your baby is BF or has a bottle to go to sleep or has one right before bed...

At about 12 months DS stopped falling asleep during his last bottle......so we started brushing his teeth then...after he finished the bottle.

Not much sense in brushing first....the milk, formula or BM is still on the teeth then!