My mum stopped giving me a bottle at around 1 1/2. After that I got a sippy cup. Dentist here say that it's a no-no for bottles and bed because it rots the baby's teeth.

This is totally unrelated.

Aly gets very excited when I take the boob out. She knows she's about to get down with the yummies, and she starts... To suck her thumb!

and she gets royally pissed when I take it away from her! But she chills back out when she gets the boob my baby is so weird

My girl was about 18 months. I had started by only putting water in her bottles, especially at bedtime. The milk can pool in the bottom of their mouth and rot out their teeth.

We went to a farm where the goats were fed by bottles. She was absolutely amazed by this. The next day I told her that we had to give all of her bottles to the goats because they lost theirs.

She did whine a bit, but adjusted to a sippy cup very quickly.

Again this is my personal view, I know a lot of you do things differently

i think bottles should only be used to replace breast feeding and that once the child is taking solids and boiled water/juice and can sit happily in a highchair then the additional liquids should be given in a sippy cup.

Potentially this means never giving a breastfed baby a bottle

i can see exceptions to this, where the child is used to a bottle, and therefore has one at bedtime - more as a comforter.

I hate to see kids running round, bottle clamped between their teeth so yeah sippy cups all the way.

.I hope to breastfeed .Aly long enough for her to graduate to a sippy cup

Hahahaha, .Kia!! I'm with you on that one.

I give .Nana a bottle, but always have.

I feed her her night night bottle, and she goes to sleep. Any other drink or food is given to her while she's in the high chair. Nowhere else. I don't want her being confused as to where she eats.

My mom is a dental hygientist, and sees hundreds of little kids whose teeth have become rotten from sleeping with a bottle.

If you're going to give a bottle at bed time, give them water.

But, reguardless of what you give them, they can acquire an ear infection from laying flat and drinking...So be careful!

Sarah

My plan was to nurse exclusively, but bri was born at 28 weeks. She was tube fed for a couple of weeks and just never got the hang of latching on. By the time she could have, she was already used to the bottle and the ease of it so I pumped and pumped and pumped.

It did suck, but at least she got the benefits of breastmilk.

that definately falls under medical exceptions.
There will alway be women who simply can not breastfeed, or babies who need feeding assistance - I really only apply my view to typical, normal birth weight/time babies who don't have any complications.

Tre stopped taking bottles around one year....Maybe a bit before that. From he was about 7/8 months he would always reach for my or his father's glass when we were drinking something and we would give him a sip depending on what was, but he still accepted his bottle but at around 11 months he just didn't want the bottle anymoe and wanted to drink out of cups exclusively, so I had him drinking out of sippy cups until he could handle a real cup without out spilling anything.

The pacifier is a whole other story though.

Totally off the subject but I was born at thirty weeks and weighed 3 lbs 3 oz. I was born in october and didn't get to leave the hospital until january because I had to weigh 5 lbs before I could leave. When my mom first told me that I thought she was lying...

kia, in some place like where I am from, we are only allowed 12 weeks maternity leave, after that the baby has to go to day care...So you will have the situation where the baby is breastfed in the morning and evening but bottle fed throughout the day.

an appreciated point. Back in the post on breastfeeding a while ago, I did say though that if you have a situation where by you bottle feed instead of breastfeed, aim to give breast milk in a bottle, rather than giving formula.

Breast > is better than > breastmilk in a bottle > is better than > formula > is better than > cows milk

my gripe is when people simply say "oh baby is x months" and switch to formula for no other reason.
If you don't want to breastfeed or can't be there all day then express and bottle feed instead of formula.

My baby is in daycare. Luckly she is in the same building as I am and I go down and feed her at 10.30 and again at around 2.30. We have a great scedual. I love it. As soon as I stop breast feeding I am going to move to the sippy

yeah we are in agreement, breastmilk in a bottle, I just thought you meant no bottle if breastfeeding regardless of what was in it.

I adored breastfeeding my son - I cried my eyes out when I had to stop. He had stopped gaining weight and cried constantly. He was feeding at my breast every hour and screaming in between. The doctor told me to switch to formula because I was not producing enough milk. I continued trying for another week but gave up in the end. I don't regret it because my child changed overnight - from a screaming, unhappy baby to a contented little boy who was only needing to feed every 3 hours.

Broke my heart though

i do think that is preferable but preferable isn't always possible, so then you have to look at the next best option.

.Adriana doesn't care how she gets her food as long as she gets it. So .I'm going to take advantage of that and wean her asap before she really gets attatched to a bottle. She's doing good with a sippy cup

How did her doc appt. Go, .Mandi?

They used to have those tommy tippie cups that my kids loved, they were a little heavy on the bottom and they would tip and stand right back up and I have searched for them for other children but cannot find them. My kids were about 8 months old when they started off the bottle, I had a difficult time breast feeding both my .Sister and my .Mom could not breast feed, my kids wanted to drink like we drank out of a cup and they both threw their binkie away fairly young but they always carried their blanket anteddy bear around with them for about a year and a half, I feel that all kids or babas are different as long as they are not hurting anyone or themselves and they are healthy that is the main thing some babas do have medicak situations which can lead them to use the bottle longer or even breastfeed longer and that does not make them bad parents or bad baby's.
I kind of look at it this way, this family that was lost in .Oregon for sometime, if it wasn't for her feeding both of her two baby's I am not sure exactly how old the children were, I believe 3y/o and 7 months old, they would have probably starved to death.