re: How old is too old for a bottle?

I stopped giving my son a paci at like 8 months and 11 months he switched over to a sippy for good. If you get one of those beginner sippies they can use it just like the bottle its just as soothing and you can put milk in it as well.

Quoting My Babies = Love.:" they think it's supposed to reduce the risk of SIDS because they think the baby would be in a lighter ... [snip!] ... nutriolist(cant speel) at WIC said the bottle is worse for their teeth than a pacifier. i still think neither can be good tho."

yea a couple people have watched my daughter and i pull everything out of the diaper bag and they look at me and ask where her pacifier is she didnt like it and i wasnt going to get her attached im so glad her daycare doesnt let kids just carry around pacifiers i see 3 y/o with them and it drives me nuts the bottle is "worse" because of bottle rot from people putting their kids to bed with bottles and the formula milk or juice sitting on their teeth and gums all night my daughter if 4months old and i started brushing her gums already she loves it the little girl i babysat didnt give up a bottle until she was 4 i refused to give it to her and she fussed a little but she went to bed and nap with out it

Yeah, as a lot of others say, try straw sippies. That's what got our son off of his bottle is the fascination with straws. After a few days of me NOT giving him a bottle and him fussing, he finally gave up the fuss and took the milk in a straw sippy cup because he knew he wasn't going to get milk in a bottle anymore and I wasn't giving in.

DD got her straw sippy at 10 months and was in love with it. She couldnt (and still wont) hold a spout sippy up to drink. At 12 months I decided to get rid of the bottles and just give her a spout for her milk and everything else in her straw. She didnt skip a beat.
Paci on the other hand, she is still addicted to (16 months) and she only gets it deliberately for naps and bed time. She will sneek it out of her crib or find one hidden somewhere and then run around with it, but we're gradually getting her off it. Trying to at least.

As for anyone with their comments, tell them to go eff themselves. You keep your child on the bottle till they learn to drive, if you want to.

My oldest was completely off the bottle at 9 months old, not by my choice. He just wanted nothing to do with it and wanted a cup. My youngest on the other hand, he's 8 months old and LOVES his bottle. I feel this one might be more of a battle, but he will be weaned to a sippy cup by the time he's 12 months most likely.

First kid was 12 months when I switched and he didn't really notice. But the pacifier was hard to break. He took it away a few days before his second birthday.

Second kid was breastfed and never really was attached to the bottle. She started getting the hang of a sippy at 6 months and never gave her a soft sippy. She's almost 2 and I pretty much took away all her sippies since she can drink from a cup and such. She had a pacifier a couple times but not enough for her to get used to it.

"A new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggests that pacifier use during the day may disrupt the emotional development of baby boys because it limits their opportunity to mimic the facial expressions of others, a tool that may help them better understand emotions and learn empathy. But the research found that girls appear to make sufficient progress emotionally, despite pacifier use. The World Health Organization and AAP also have growing concerns over connections between pacifier use and ear infections"

Quoting Jillian Lindsey:" "A new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggests that pacifier use during the day may disrupt ... [snip!] ... use. The World Health Organization and AAP also have growing concerns over connections between pacifier use and ear infections""

That's very interesting!