DD was 2+ when I took the bottle away (she never took a paci) I got a lot of grief from my sil about it. I never worried about teeth rot because she sucked down the milk and then handed me the bottle back. There was no dawdling around. I thought the teeth rot came from taking a bottle to bed and them just letting the milk pool and sit in their mouth for long periods of time. And we never let that happen. All that said, I will probably wean this new baby off the bottle much sooner, just for my own sanity. As well as start him on table foods much earlier, we delayed it with DD way to long (nervous new parents) and now she's unbelievably picky and has a extremely limited diet of what she will/won't eat, it's maddening, so I'm going to nip that in the bud early with this little guy.
This past December I had DD at the eye doctor for a visit and there was a kid in there who had a paci. He had to have been 5 or older because he was way bigger than DD. Now that I will be judgmental on, that is waaay to dang long. Even DD said something to me about him.
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JACOBSMOM09
Posts: 2637
5/7/12 11:44 A
I remember my dentist telling me that not only is the bottle bad from a decay standpoint, but there can also be teeth formation issues related to paci and thumb sucking. I never thought of it. They recommended that if your child does have a habit, a paci was better, because you can take the paci away to stop the habit, but you can't take away the thumb.
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LANKANVIRGO
Posts: 3153
5/7/12 11:33 A
I had no idea about how bad bottle feeding on teeth were either when i first became a mom.
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1BABYLADY
Posts: 591
5/5/12 7:42 A
Some new mothers (like me) never got the memo you are suppose to ween your child off the bottle by a certain month. After I read about how damaging to the teeth bottles are, I am for sure going to try to ween my next child very early for sure! Maybe some new moms don't know that it's really bad for the teeth. I am not judgemental at all about any mothers method, unless she's neglecting her kids or something like that.
LANKANVIRGO
Posts: 3153
4/13/12 11:11 A
I totally agree....some moms really are very judgemental and not all kids have to be trained the same way....my 3 yr old is still not potty trained and you should see the looks I get from other moms at moms groups and such....I just give them a dirty looks back...hahaha I will parents my kids the way I want and will train him when he is ready.
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HOPE2B
Posts: 5460
4/12/12 2:53 P
Sometimes it's parenting style and sometimes it's pure survival. Either way I'm sure there is a reason she hasn't cut her off from the bottle/paci.
I have lots of thing my kids do that I allow because I have to in order to keep my sanity. My son just turned 4 and he still wonders into my room and my bed every night at some point. Some people judge but when #2 was born I decided I couldn't wake with 2 kids and this was the solution that keeps me sane. We also potty trained right at 2 with lots of accidents because I couldn't keep him clothed. He was stripping and peeing everywhere anyway. I figured if he insisted on being naked he'd have to learn to use the potty and he did. My daughter strips but keeps her diaper on so I'm in no rush with her. She's 2 next month and I'm thinking of giving it a shot but no pressure.
On the sippy cups in bed, both of my kids do it and I think in 2 years since my son potty trained we've only had 2 accidents. It hasn't been an issue. If they don't take a cup to bed they just wake at 3am and I have to go fill a cup in the middle of the night instead. No thanks :)
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RILEYMOMMA
Posts: 61
4/12/12 9:57 A
Jacobsmom09, you are a wise lady! I think we all have different priorities and things that bother us. Some people want to force the potty traininng thing, I never did..and my kids were 3.5, 3.25, and just 3 when they trained..but they all trained quickly and w/o all the accidents or me having to take them every half hour. As far as sippy cups to bed....my kids always have taken them, and they had no problems with potty training or wetting at night.
JACOBSMOM09
Posts: 2637
4/12/12 9:16 A
I think you hit the nail on the head when you recognized that you have different parenting styles. We all do things differently. My son never took a paci, we wanted him to as the pedi thought it might help him with his overeating, but he never took to it at all. He did use a bottle at night until he was almost 2. I wanted to wean him off it, but didn't have the heart to hear him cry. Then one night, before we were moving, he went into his room with his sippy cup, and that was that. I still let him take his cup to bed, and he'll be three in July. I know it will make it hard for potty training, but he's not interested at all in it, so I just don't care. As my stepmother said, she can't remember when her boys were potty trained, stopped using bottles, or whatever the "milestone" for stopping different things were, but they aren't still doing them now (in their 40's and 50's) and they turned out okay. So, I'm trying to just chill about it.
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VRNCMOM3
Posts: 803
4/10/12 12:11 P
My daughter at 5months started chewing the nipples off hers she was already being trained on a sippy cup so at 6months I cut the bottle and binky off at the same time. I did the same with my son because they say the longer they are on the bottle the higher chance of bottle rot. So again at 6months old no more binky or bottle he didn't care about the binky he actually gave that up himself at 3 months. I plan to try breastfeeding this one longer so i don't even plan on bottles right now. I do feel even a year old is pushing it with bottles just my opinion but that's when they are old enough for whole milk and real foods if they can feed themselves why put a bottle in their mouth?
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LANKANVIRGO
Posts: 3153
4/10/12 10:52 A
My oldest used a pacifier until he was 2 and used the bottle until he was 2 1/2. my youngest was off the bottle at 15 months and never used a pacifier. I am being honest in saying that the paci was given out of convenience and if I could go back I would've cut him off of it earlier. We took him off the bottle and he stopped drinking milk so being first time parents, me and dh freaked out gave him the bottle until he was 2 1/2. I mean we all have different parenting styles but if I could go back in time I'd do the same with my oldest as I did with my youngest.
The biggest reasons for me were being a new parents and not knowing and convenience.
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RILEYMOMMA
Posts: 61
4/10/12 10:12 A
None of my kids ever used a bottle, b/c none of them ever liked them till they were older and could use a sippy cup anyway. The pacifier, I think the oldest was my oldest son, and I pulled it when he was 20 months (he was way attached), but the others didn't use it enough to care. To each their own though. We all pick our battles and maybe taking those away isn't one she wants to fight yet. I agree i think it looks funny.My niece was almost 3 at my wedding, and in ALL the wedding photos she has a pacifier in her mouth and a bottle in hand. I think it's too old, but thats me :)
PEANUTKJB
Posts: 448
4/10/12 9:13 A
My SIL posted a picture of my neice yesterday on Facebook. She is over two and a half, but not quite three. She had a pacified in her mouth and a bottle in her hand.
Isn't 2.5 too old to be sucking on a pacified still, and way too old to still be drinking from a bottle? Sil and I have very different parenting styles, so maybe its not as weird as I think it is. My son is only a few months older and he stopped drinking from bottles at 14 months, and never used a pacifier.
It just seemed so out of place to me, to see a kids as old as my son with a pacifier and a bottle.
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