I'm about 10 wks along now and it's been 8 years since my last baby. I may need to seriously polish up on my baby expertise here.
there's a big stink about baby Suri Cruise still drinking from a bottle along with a sippy cup.
Is 2 years old really way too old to still be using a bottle?
I have forgotten so much!
m'smama
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The recommendation from our pediatrician was to switch from bottles to sippy cups at the same time that we switched from formula to cow's milk, which was a 1 year. This way, our son understood (or seemed to) that formula came in bottles and milk in sippies. He took to sippies and milk with no problem whatsoever.
I think the earlier you do things the easier it is - my cousin's son turned two recently and he's still on the bottle and pitching a fit when they try to transition him to a sippy.
Anonymous
relies upon. If the youngster is largely ingesting from a bottle, then i'd say that is kinda unusual. yet when the bottle is barely for mattress situations and nap situations and stuff, i'd say it really is not any longer that wide of a deal. My daughter became utilising a bottle for mattress time, till about 2 and a 1/2. she will be 3 next month, and the bottles are lengthy gone and function been for months now. some youthful ones supply them up, and some do not. I quite have a higher challenge seeing 4 12 months olds with Dummy's stuck of their mouths at the same time as out procuring even with the actuality that. . . :)
melli
My 1st daughter was still drinking a bottle before she would go to sleep when she was two, which I thought was okay. But then I noticed her molars were getting a dark spot on them and I took her to the dentist. The teeth were decaying and she had cavities on almost all of her teeth. She had to have her whole top row of teeth covered with crowns as well as all of the molars on the bottom row. Don't get me wrong-- she definately would brush her teeth two times a day, but the thing is many times she would drink the bottle and then fall asleep and I couldn't clean the teeth, because I didn't want to wake her up. Boy, did I regret that! I felt so bad that she had to have all of the dental work done. But after that, I made sure that my second girl who was 1 at the time, stopped drinking from the bottle. So, in my experience I think it's a good idea to wean them as soon as you can for their teeth.
Anonymous
Honestly, when my daughter was 9 months old, she "moved on" to sippy cups and drinking with straws in a regular cup (of course, with our assistance).... When I saw that pic of Suri drinking from a bottle on the magazine, I just couldnt believe it! These celebrities have plenty plenty plenty of money and still have their kids on bottles! Its amazing though...cuz Ive seen other celeb kids on bottles, being older, too.
Anonymous
It is a little old, babies should be off the bottle a few months after they turn one and then should be drinking out of a sippy cup...but everyone has different parenting skills.