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Old July 11th 06, 01:01 PM posted to misc.kids.breastfeeding
Anne Rogers
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Default We have reached 1 year!

Congratulations Jeni! (and William too!)

Just wondering what are the plans for milk transitioning at nursery? I
always mention this because I feel worse if people turn round in a years
time and say I didn't know. Basically the advice I was given by just about
everyone, dentist health visitor, speech therapist, etc. is to stop bottles
at 12 months, 2 reasons for this, 1 is that the way it puts the liquid into
the mouth makes it pool and is more liable to cause tooth decay and the
other and more concerning one is to do with speech development, I don't
fully understand the link, but there is something about development of the
palate and forming words, not being helped by using bottles. Anyway, I'm
sure the nursery staff will have ideas as they must do it with loads of
children, some people switch to cows milk then ditch the bottles, others do
it the opposite way round.

Cheers

Anne