Kind of feeling guilty and like a bad mom but I haven’t really fully started brushing my lo teeth yet. She only has a couple so far. I have the toothbrush that’s attached and I do have kids toothpaste but I feel like I don’t know what to do🤦🏼♀️ like should I just start out with water or go straight with toothpaste? I’m assuming it’s okay for her to swallow the toothpaste since she can’t really spit it out? I feel so dumb for asking these questions and hope I’m not the only one
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You're not. So there is baby toothpaste they don't have to spit out. I like Dr Browns and baby likes it too. You need a flouride free one.
We've really had a hard time getting started with it because baby still needs a bedtime feed to go to sleep. We just cannot seem to kick it. We're trying to move it earlier but having the worst time. Sometimes I can manage to brush his two little teeth after he falls asleep without toothpaste, but it's such a crap shoot. Some days he's out cold and lets me and other days he wakes up furious. Which I get! Id be the same way 😂😂😂
He likes to chew on the brush itself, it's just that we're still so dependent on that bedtime feed that's the problem right now.

Under 2 ask pediatrician about any toothpaste most over the counter say age 2+ FOR A REASON. Toothpaste is totally not necessary at this stage, I worked in dental for years and honestly I’m just using a brush to remove the plaque from my sons teeth. That’s it. That’s the whole job. You’re introducing the principle and keeping their teeth clean.

Just want to add to this your not a bad mom!!!
We’re also really inconsistent about brushing her teeth for a variety of reasons (occasional bedtime feed etc) and my neighbor who is a dentist said not to worry about it just yet and just do our best.

Just hear to say if you have dental insurance or even if you don’t the recommendation is to take your baby to the dentist as soon as they have teeth, and every six months after that. I took my daughter then and they answered all my questions and reassured me of how to take care of her teeth!

Our pediatrician said we could even just wipe the teeth with a clean damp cloth. Just enough to wipe away any sugars that are there. Don’t beat yourself up. :)