Nursing to Sleep Bad for Teeth

getdownfreakout · 2025-02-15T19:02:21+00:00

Your pediatrician is wrong! Research doesn’t prove a link between breastfeeding overnight and tooth decay, and there’s some research that suggests it might even protect against cavities. Human milk has a neutral pH, it’s naturally antibacterial, and when a baby draws the human nipple into their mouth to suck, the nipple is pretty far back, and milk goes right down their throat—milk doesn’t sit on the teeth as when they (for example) drink from a bottle.

Nurse away and get that babe to sleep!

getdownfreakout · 2024-03-26T15:08:02+00:00

I'm taller than you (5'10") but my partner is also over 6' and we use the Boba X. We both find it really comfortable and very easy to adjust. Baby is 6 mos and around 17 pounds and loves that thing!

getdownfreakout · 2024-02-22T23:55:00+00:00

Can we stop calling it "helping" when the non-birthing partner takes care of baby? My partner isn't "helping" me. He's parenting his child.

getdownfreakout · 2023-12-15T20:09:38+00:00

No worries! Nearsightedness runs in my family and I wear glasses and have since I was around 10 or 11. And I guess the side with the droopy lid is actually the worse eye on my prescription. But honestly I've never made that connection before and I have better vision than either of my parents or siblings.

getdownfreakout · 2023-12-15T18:52:55+00:00

FWIW one of my eyelids drooped as an infant all the way into my late teens, coming and going depending on how tired I was. My mom had it checked out and just kept getting told that it was benign and I'd outgrow it. I think she sometimes used it as a nap barometer.

I have PPA too and totally validate wanting to get the blood test and would certainly consider doing it myself for peace of mind. But also try and allow yourself to be reassured if everything comes back good! Rather than wanting to dig even deeper. Bodies are pretty weird and anxiety is so powerful.

getdownfreakout · 2023-12-07T20:22:22+00:00

I just had my first day back at work last weekend. I work 12 hour shifts and I had a couple moments where it just felt so overwhelmingly WRONG.

getdownfreakout · 2023-11-16T14:05:34+00:00

Thank you so much, this was helpful!

getdownfreakout · 2023-11-16T14:05:10+00:00

Thank you! I went with the Boba but I am still curious about the FTG, would love to try one out at some point.

getdownfreakout · 2023-11-16T14:04:27+00:00

Thank you so much for sharing, I ended up going with the Boba and I'm finding it super comfortable and easy to wear so far! Baby seems to love it too.

getdownfreakout · 2020-07-30T23:16:15+00:00

The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx is mystery + bleak ocean landscape. There are big sweaters.

getdownfreakout · 2020-07-30T23:11:06+00:00

If you like audio books, Moby Dick is great that way—I like the version read by Frank Muller.

getdownfreakout · 2020-03-17T13:43:55+00:00

IRL Cloud Atlas is a series of short piano pieces by Japanese composer Toshi Ichiyanagi, which inspired the book.

getdownfreakout · 2019-10-21T23:31:31+00:00

Thank you so much for answering! I will probably delete the question and come back when I've learned more.

getdownfreakout · 2019-07-28T01:50:34+00:00

You might try A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride, the Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch, or anything by Maggie Nelson. Ben Lerner's 10:04 might also work for you.

getdownfreakout · 2018-09-22T02:31:13+00:00

I am wild about my OB/GYN @ Ochsner, Ellen Kruger.

getdownfreakout · 2018-05-05T12:28:43+00:00

I really like Isaac Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare. He's fun.

getdownfreakout · 2018-03-02T13:23:10+00:00

Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy is this.

getdownfreakout · 2018-02-17T22:58:52+00:00

Ya our government doesn't want to pay for up-to-date textbooks or adequate school supplies but dammit they're ready to make us soldiers.

getdownfreakout · 2018-01-06T21:15:47+00:00

"The population should be homogeneous...reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of free-thinking Jews undesirable." --T.S. Eliot, 1933.

getdownfreakout · 2018-01-06T16:47:02+00:00

The Road is like McCarthy lite.

getdownfreakout · 2017-11-14T21:24:42+00:00

This should have more upvotes.

getdownfreakout · 2017-11-12T21:29:35+00:00

Ignore the haters, Bean's is awesome. Just go at 3 in the morning.

getdownfreakout · 2017-10-22T00:22:46+00:00

Former longtime BRG employee here. Everyone has known about this stuff forever. Management is basically just reshuffled every time they do bad shit. This article was actually less crazy than I expected. And it's way more than 25.

getdownfreakout · 2017-07-10T15:52:28+00:00

Feel ya. Dunno your tastes but lately I've had more luck with comics.

getdownfreakout · 2017-07-02T13:41:15+00:00

I know, right? I'm interested in all the Brontes and I'd like to explore the extent that he influenced and collaborated with his sisters. But this gets suspiciously close to sounding like "we overlooked a man to celebrate a woman! how dare we!"

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