Ok, who's had child using a bottle for longest?

[Empress]

i'll own up to mine using a bottle at night at the age of 3. any higher bids?!

mine is 4.9 and she isnt interested in stopping. I hope she doesnt tell anyone at school though

mine was 7

nephew had 2 bottles a day at the age of 5... I think he was 4 before he stopped having formula... apparently he didn't like cow's milk!!

oh good i thought i had the oldest sucker in town

you have made me feel SO much better!

feel so pressurised to get dd (19 mth) off the bottle, i dont feel half as bad now.

Sod making formula for four years - I'd have just given up on milk!!

DS2 (21 months) still has his bottle (with cows milk I hasten to add ) in the evening.

We cut him down from 3 bottles a day 1 month ago to just the one............as it was too expensive .

I don't believe in sweating the small stuff. Dd voluntarily gave up her bottle (on her own initiative) just under 3yrs, ds (17 months) is still having his. Not loosing sleep over it!

both of mine got rid of theirs at 12 months - they wanted to they liked cups - my niece is 5.6 years and still has one to go to bed

DD, 27 months next week, still has hers. She can drink out of an open-mouthed cup or with a straw, but she likes her 'bobo' for her night and morning milk.

I had one till I was 3 and then gave it up of my own volition.

Did me no harm.

My mother had one till she was in P1 back in the 40s. That would have been 1947 and she was 6.

She's pretty well-adjusted for someone who drank a bottle for so long .

Dd4 has one still at 27 months and has just gone from 2 down to 1 which she has at night. I don't plan on taking it away till she wants

Apparently (I can't remember though) I tried to take mine to school .

Ds had his untill he was about 2.5.
dd was about 1.5
ds2 has never had one as he went straight from boob to cup at 10 months.

dd aged 3 still has a bottle of cows milk before bed at night. She knows it's 'for babies' but she doesn't mind and neither do I - she likes it

DD (3yrs 3mths)likes to drink milk in bed in the morning and at night. Cup = spills, bottle = bliss. No contest, and after reading this thread, no guilt.

She will drink from a cup if I tell her all her bottles are in the dishwasher.

My DD1 had a bottle of water till she was nearly 4 (she hated milk) then I introduced an anywayup cup and she has that at bedtime with milk (she's decided she likes it now lol)and in the daytime too if I'm honest. She's 5 and 1/2 now and can competently drink from anything glass or cup but likes to lie down and drink so I don't mind

DD2 3.5 still insists on a milk bobby at bedtime, DD3 18mts gave up ages ago. They're all different, and I can't see the harm in it

My DS has bottle 3.5, DD had it until starting school!!

DP has a bottle to his mouth at the moment and he's 34!!!

My dh drinks out of bottles, and he's very very old ...

My ds, 2.5, still has a bottle morning and night, because I don't care enough to stop it. I would rather he got the calcium he needs than worry about milk cavaties.

phew! thought it was just me. dd2 has a bottle last thing at night, of cows milk, and shes 2.3. if I even sugggest giving it up she has a meltdown so I havent pushed it yet. getting her to take that night time bottle was the ony way I could stop breastfeeding. I had no idea at the time she would become so attached to that tho!

aha i htink bottles are pretty grima dn personally couldnt wait to bin them

b ut recently ds3 has lost his tomme tippe feeder cup thing
we have put it someohwere adn genuinely lost it... and ds3 si not pleased - have realised this was a bottle replacement
anyway am not bying another one he is 2.6 so thtas it!

think you just have to go cold turkey
think over 2 is unecessary

I think they are awful too. however when dd2 didnt even sleep til over 21mths I would of introduced ANYTHING to get her to sleep. this is the least 'bad' thing I could think of.
we'll get rid of it soon, just you know, in no rush to go back to disturbed nights again.

We once had a four year old visitor who was still on the bottle.

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