Parenting: If you feed milk to your baby through a bottle at night, then never make this mistake..
- byShikha Srivastava
- 12 Sep, 2025
Parenting: If the mother is not able to feed her child her milk all the time, then she keeps a milk bottle with her. Many times at night, the mother puts the milk bottle in the child's mouth and puts him to sleep, and the mother does not know when she falls asleep. This happens because the child falls asleep with the milk bottle in his mouth. Sleeping with a bottle in the mouth all night and drinking milk for too long has been described by the children's doctor as a big mistake. Pediatrician Dr. Pawan Mandaviya explained what harm can happen if the child is put to sleep by feeding milk from a bottle at night. You too should listen to this advice of the doctor.

Why should the child not be fed milk from a bottle at night?
The doctor said that if the child wakes up from sleep at night and you feed him milk from a bottle to put him to sleep, then this can spoil the child's teeth. A mother came to Dr. Mandaviya with her daughter, whose teeth had been badly damaged. When the teeth were shown to the dentist, he said that it was necessary to get the child treated with RCT. The test revealed that when the child was 1.5-2 years old, she was fed milk from a bottle every night. At night, she used to keep the milk bottle in her mouth for 1-2 hours.
What happens is that by keeping the bottle in the mouth continuously, the mouth remains full of milk. After this, if the child's mouth is not washed properly and put to sleep, then the milk remains stuck on the teeth. Due to this, the upper layer of the child's teeth, i.e., enamel, which is not very strong, starts rotting. This leads to the child's teeth falling later.
When the child's rotten teeth have to be removed, this further spoils the alignment of the child's teeth, and the teeth get damaged. Later on, the teeth that grow in the child also do not grow straight, and the alignment gets spoiled.
That is why doctors say that the milk bottle should not be left in the baby's mouth at night, or the baby should not be allowed to sleep with the milk bottle in his mouth.
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