Hellobee Boards Topic: How often do you brush your LO's teeth?

Hellobee Boards Topic: How often do you brush your LO's teeth? https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 30 May 2026 08:07:22 +0000 808love on "How often do you brush your LO's teeth?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-often-do-you-brush-your-los-teeth#post-90148 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 04:03:05 +0000 808love 90148@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Our LO just wants to chew on the brush. Does that count as brushing? Anyway, I let Dad do the dirty work once a day. He hates it too and says whoever bathes her should do it. Oh and we have a double set. One long brush for us and a matching smaller one for her to hold. But she still wants the long one, of course. She loves it when she sees me flossing my teeth and grabs for it, so I put it in her mouth even though her teeth are spaced far away just to get her used to the idea. I heard straws help with keeping away the liquid from the teeth...not sure though. cupcakemama on "How often do you brush your LO's teeth?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-often-do-you-brush-your-los-teeth#post-89431 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:44:02 +0000 cupcakemama 89431@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Ok,will keep at it. banana on "How often do you brush your LO's teeth?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-often-do-you-brush-your-los-teeth#post-89430 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:42:22 +0000 banana 89430@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @cupcakemama: It think it's persistence and routine. The first week of brushing was tough. He kept biting on the toothbrush and tightly closing his lips. But we KEPT at it and basically telling him that this tooth brushing thing isn't going away. Every single night, we would keep attempting it. Eventually he kind of just gave in. It helps when daddy brushes his teeth at the same time too. cupcakemama on "How often do you brush your LO's teeth?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-often-do-you-brush-your-los-teeth#post-89376 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:17:46 +0000 cupcakemama 89376@https://boards.hellobee.com/ How do you brush their teeth - is it just persistence? LO loves the toothbrush and watching us brush but always wants to hold the toothbrush so a wrestling match ensues and not much brushing ocurrs! What are we doing wrong?? LO is 10 months. volksgirl64 on "How often do you brush your LO's teeth?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-often-do-you-brush-your-los-teeth#post-89330 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:11:00 +0000 volksgirl64 89330@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We brush every night for sure but mornings are spotty. We always water down any juice that she gets and even limit that. And she never goes to bed with a drink, not even water. She just had her first check up at the dentist and everything looks good to them. We'll work on the morning brushing but for now we're doing pretty good. anbanan15 on "How often do you brush your LO's teeth?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-often-do-you-brush-your-los-teeth#post-89297 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:24:26 +0000 anbanan15 89297@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I'm super concerned about LO's teeth. My nephew had to have his baby teeth refaced (I forget the technical term) because they were rotten from him going to bed with a bottle. DS is breast fed, so no bottles at bed time, but he has fallen asleep at the breast from time to time. Andrea on "How often do you brush your LO's teeth?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-often-do-you-brush-your-los-teeth#post-89296 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:23:35 +0000 Andrea 89296@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Morning and night. And daycare does it once during the day, too. I've never let my LO go to sleep with any liquids to drink. It is just water after brushing her teeth. Now flossing I have not tried since she hated brushing her teeth for so long. She is liking it a bit more now so maybe I should give flossing a shot. Mrs. Bee on "How often do you brush your LO's teeth?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-often-do-you-brush-your-los-teeth#post-89285 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:09:30 +0000 Mrs. Bee 89285@https://boards.hellobee.com/ yes we are super duper worried about it after reading an article in the nytimes. we try to brush twice a day, but haven't attempted flossing yet. charlie loves floss so he'd probably just want to play with it! banana on "How often do you brush your LO's teeth?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-often-do-you-brush-your-los-teeth#post-89250 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:36:19 +0000 banana 89250@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I just read an article on Yahoo that there's been a huge increase in cavities found in preschoolers (from ages 2+). 42% of kids ages 2 to 11 had cavities in their primary teeth. Yikes! <a href="http://health.yahoo.net/experts/dayinhealth/huge-rise-preschoolers-cavities" rel="nofollow">http://health.yahoo.net/experts/dayinhealth/huge-rise-preschoolers-cavities</a> The article points to the root cause as being an increase in sugary foods and allowing children to go to bed with a bottle of milk or juice, which eats away at their enamel. They recommend brushing your child's teeth two times a day and flossing too. We brush our LO's teeth every night before bed and sometimes in the morning. And we haven't tried flossing yet. I don't know how he would do with flossing. I can barely get him to brush his teeth longer than 30 seconds. How often do you brush your LO's teeth? Do you worry about cavities?