Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!dartvax!betsy From: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: Putting small children to sleep Message-ID: <2703@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 16:12:41 EST Article-I.D.: dartvax.2703 Posted: Thu Jan 17 16:12:41 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 22-Jan-85 03:47:56 EST References: <109@spp3.UUCP> <954@amdahl.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 21 > > [] > > We have an 8 1/2 month old. Until about two weeks ago we were holding his > > bottle and rocking him to sleep in our arms. We were told that it is a very > > bad habit to get you child into and that he should be going to sleep in his > > crib by himself. We were then given the advise of putting him in his crib > > with the bottle propped to wean him from having to hold him. > > (Disclaimer: I am NOT yet a parent) In a recent mailing from my dentist, he warned against propping babies with bottles in their mouths; it seems that the practice can lead to unnecessary tooth decay. (Something about the baby going to sleep with unswallowed food still available to the decay germs in the mouth.) Incidentally, whose advice was this? Betsy Perry -- Elizabeth Hanes Perry UUCP: {decvax|linus|cornell}!dartvax!betsy CSNET: betsy@dartmouth ARPA: betsy%dartmouth@csnet-relay