theoretically...your child is over 3..would you...

[StrawberryMoon]

still be giving them a bottle of an evening..not a cup but still in avent bottle, layed back snuggled up same as when much younger...and still permanently having dummy????

DS, 2.9, never had a bottle beyond 12 months, but he still sleeps with a dummy occaisionally, although just getting ready to rid him of it once he's settled into nursery.

Personally no. I don't like it!
I was lucky with ds as he went straight from bottle to cup at 15 months. I think it depends on if they take bottle to bed maybe? Ds never did this.
My niece still has a bottle for bed at 2.4, hers is about sucking the teat and not the milk. She would go to bed with an empty bottle! She has never had a dummy though.

Jess is 2.2, still has a bottle for a nap (if she has one) and a bottle before bed - and a dummy for sleeps or if she is stroppy and grumpy.

Im not going to take it away from her, she will tell me when she feels she can go without it.

I hope to get off the dummy at least pretty soon, before it becomes a permanant fixture, but it has to be when SHE is ready.

If anyone wants to judge me for it, fair play, but im here to make life safe and comfy for my babies, not to live up to others expectations.

please i've read this. have just been out to tescos to buy cups ( on two for one )since DS is three and I feel that he is too old for a cup. DD only 1 but thought it would be unfair to take only DS away. Now I've read this will let him decide whether he wants cup or bottle and not feel like a bad mother whatever.

Mine had a bottle of hot chocolate at night until he was about 4, and sometimes still (now just 7) has hot choc in an anyway-up cup

This is becos we have bedtime story on my bed, and I don't want hot choc spilt all over it. He cleans his teeth afterwards tho'.

I must say I hate to see 3 or 4 year olds with dummies permanently stuck in their faces (mainly cos I think it inhibits their communication skills), but see no prob with it as a sleep-time comforter.

DS also gave up dummies for himself tho, at 4 months old !!!

My 3yr old DD1 has a bottle and her thumb.I will leave it until she wants to stop having milk in it at night and morning.She uses a cup during the day.
My H/V said i should think about stopping it because of the sugar that is in milk.

My ds2 hasnt had a bottle at any time of the day since he was just over a year old but it was his choice, he just preferred cups. He still has a dummy and he will be 3 next week but we are gradually trying to wean him off of it, the dummy fairy will be coming along soon!!

My friends child wont go to sleep unless she has her bottle, dummy and fimble. I think it depends on the child iteself, there are no right/wrong age to get rid of these things.

I would still give them the bottle if they still liked it and it was soothing for them.

As for the dummy, I would try to wean them off it in the day and jsut give it to them at nap times and for bed.