chewing on a soft toothbrush is enough at this age, dont push it or it will make things worse. things like cheese help to neutralise acid so if she has something sweet offer cheese after. keep doing what you are in regards to brushing, it will get easier!
We all brush our teeth together twice a day - DD2 (who is 16 months) doesn't really 'brush' either but over time, the older 2 have started to copy us brushing and they are actually getting really good at it even though they are only 2 and 3. All mine have gone through a chewing stage on their toothbrushes, but we don't push it or make a big deal of it. They love that we all brush our teeth together though it does get annoying at times (like if I want to be by myself when I brush my teeth, I can't, even if I try and hide in the bathroom and brush my teeth).
in the morning I brush DS's teeth with my non-toothpasted brush (okay not sure if that's really 'allowed' or whatever) and I make a silly noise... he thinks its hilarious.. and then i do my teeth and he watches. So for our night time brush with his brush, we do it in the bath, same silly noise and he just opens up and giggles. I sort of sing "brushing, brushing, brushing" in between silly noises. So far so good He's 14 months old.
If he doesn't want to play the game, then we don't brush his teeth that day. I'm just too pregnant and tired for an argument over it atm and usually he'll be fine the next day iykwim.
DS has good days and bad days on whether he will let us brush his teeth or not. we introduced toothpaste a couple of months ago and that seems to help a bit. we just dip the brushes in the top so it only gets the teeniest amount on there and use that. DH spoke to his dentist about DS and the dentist and dental nurse said it was fine to introduce toothpaste at his age.
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He's 14 months old.
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