when should you stop bottle feeding your child?

suri.jpgThis is Suri Cruise, Tom & Katie’s daughter. Suri has turned two years old and still drinks out of a bottle. Apparently that’s bad. The Daily Mail reports:

Parenting experts and paediatricians recommend parents start to wean their child off the bottle at the age of one. The cute toddler is frequently photographed drinking from a bottle - despite turning two last month. Dr Charlotte Cowan, author of the Dr Hippo parenting books, told Us Weekly magazine: “Most paediatricians recommend a bottle should be given up by age one - almost certainly by 18 months.

Since my expertise is limited in pug rearing, help me understand. What is so bad in giving your child, Suri’s age, a bottle? Is it hurting anyone? Will it affect the child’s future disposition in life? Like I said I am not a mom that’s why I am asking here. Are ‘experts’ always right?

What’s the harm in giving a child this age a bottle, when it’s evident that she likes it, she drinks it and not wasting it…and obviously (IMO) it calms her.

Aww this child is cute. ‘Can’t believe she’s Tom’s.

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Comment by Leap of Faith!
2008-05-11 07:52:59

Thess, I’m very certain that our two boys drank milk from a bottle past the age of two. I think we started to wean them when they were four (or something). They seem to be doing fine.

I can remember drinking from a bottle until I was in grade school (or at least until the nipple had a very big hole in it)and I tunred out okay, I think. So blah-blah-blah to all those parenting experts and physicians.

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Comment by admin
2008-05-11 13:27:54

kaya nga kahit kay dr. phil hindi ako naniniwala eh :hehe:

parang gusto ko mag disagree na u turned out okay…nabasa ko kasi yung bloody toenails eh :lol:

 
 
Comment by Leap of Faith!
2008-05-11 07:55:17

Sorry, forgot to mention how cute Suri is… she looks like Katie, right?

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Comment by iris
2008-05-11 16:27:21

if you’re going to ask a pediatrician or a dentist, they’re gonna say it’s pretty bad if the child doesn’t wean from bottle feeding at that age.it’s because of the teeth development and plus my cousin who’s a dentist tells me never to give my baby milk when sleeping because the milk gets stuck in the mouth and it ruins the teeth in the long run :) but other than that i don’t know what’s wrong with it.

 
Comment by RennyBA
2008-05-11 17:51:56

Maybe it has something to do with that it might hurt the teeth? Other than that, I agree with you!

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Comment by Jayred
2008-05-11 20:11:50

I’ll tell you a secret, Thess. I’m worse than Suri: I stopped drinking milk from a bottle at age 7!

Maybe that’s why I grew up…weird (LOL).

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Comment by Barbara Ling
2008-05-13 20:50:01

I think it’s because the bottle supposedly hurts the teeth as they come in.

My kids had no problems with it, however.

Data points,

Barbara

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Comment by Meeya
2008-06-12 21:09:07

si ninna at exactly the age of 1 tinigil namin sa dede. kasi mapapagalitan ka ng pedia pag hindi haha! ang concern nga nila ay ang ngipin ng bata, atsaka para mas masanay na rin kumain ng solids kesa kumuha ng nutrisyon sa dede.

tingin ko rin yung pagdede ng bata is a comfort thing to them, pero i’m sure makakahanap naman siya ng ibang bagay na makaka-comfort sa kanya eventually, ibang bagay na hindi makaksira ng ngipin nila hehe.

 
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