i have heard it all. from various people. however differently they said it, they all meant the same thing… the twins are too old for bottles.
thank you to the many strangers who have preached to offered me advice, i think it is wonderful that your child was drinking from a regular cup in utero.
i went out and bought various drink containers. we have the straw, the sippy, the sigg. all hold and dispense water just fine, but put milk in them and it is another story to these guys.
you just try to take those bottles away from them.
in my opinion, there are plenty of other things to obsess over as a parent, but i am taking the “i’ll parent mine, you parent yours” stance.
i highly doubt that they will be 22 and still starting the morning with a nice cold evenflo. in a blink of an eye, they will be having coffee with me.
so go on…call them babies. they are babies.
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OMG. But they are babies. Who are these people that preach? And can they please go away?!
My daughter was almost five when I sat with her and told her it was time the bottle went. She was not happy, and it took a few nights of her whining, "milk"!! but we got over it. It wasn't something I thought about, as she is sooo little and seems younger than her age.
My eldest was 3 1/2 when her night time 'milky' went.
Now my youngest is 5 years and 4 months and she has forgotten about the glass baby bottles in the cupboard (which I have kept as I am sentimental)
The way I see it, when these kids turn 16, none of this will be remembered, nor will it matter.
Hugs to those precious babies….and you for a wonderful sense of humour!
Ditto. My littlest will drink water out of anything, but when it's milk time, only a bottle will do. I know he can drink out of anything, but he gets comfort from milk out of a bottle and that's fine by me. We all do our best and like you say, I can guarentee he won't be 22 and drinking from that bottle
Oh, and one more thing…those photos are just gorgeous!!!
Our son is 22 months old and still has a baba….SO WHAT!!!
I say when he is done with it he will be done and that will be that.
So I'm with you all the way
I couldn't agree more.
I am still rocking my third baby (who just turned one) to sleep for naps and nighttime.
In my opinion, I adore that he still wants to snuggle with me.
And like you, I tell people that I highly doubt I still be rocking him to sleep when he is a senior in high school.
Do what works for you and your family.
You are such an inspiration!
ABSOLUTELY!! People are already telling us similar things about pacifiers and co-sleeping. Just leave it to us thankyou, we're the parents, we know what works best in our family thankyou!
Here here! My babies are all grown up now, and it happens way too fast. Let them be babies for as long as you can. Drinking from a bottle or sucking a dummy at 1, 2, 3 or whatever age isnt going to hurt them. I'm with you
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