Did you know…A UNC-CH study on infants and obesity cited in the March 2014 journal Pediatrics found that 43% of low-income parents put their babies to bed with a bottle?
Shifting babies from the bottle to a cup at the appropriate age is important to their good dental health. Suggest these Dos and Don’ts to the parents in your program:
- DON’T put babies to bed with a bottle.
- DO get babies off bottles and onto drinking cups by age 12 to 15 months.
- DO give babies water in cups if they need a drink between meals.
- DON’T give babies juice before age 1. After age 1, limit juice to half a cup a day, served in a cup.
For more information about the importance of baby teeth, click on the new, short Tooth Talk video “Babies and Bottle-Weaning.”
