Still bottle feeding at 2? It could lead to obesity.


What? I'm supposed to be drinking out of a cup?

A new study links prolonged bottle feeding to obesity.

Pediatricians recommend weaning babies from the bottle at 1, if not earlier, but because of cavities. This age seems perfectly reasonable to me, though the article says many 2-year-olds are still using a bottle.

When did your child move on to a sippy cup? It was definitely around 12 months for both my kids. I couldn’t wait to stop dealing with bottles.

Tracy Ormsbee

6 Responses

  1. maggie says:

    Our daughter moved to the sippy at 13 months.
    I don’t see that it’s the delivery mechanism matters, though. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the difference between high calorie formula vs. lower calorie water, juice, or milk. Or maybe the not having one at night in the crib?

  2. Jessica says:

    My daughter had a sippy cup at 9 months, but she still had her bottles for formula until she was 13 months (when I ran out of bottle liners). She’s had a sippy cup ever since.

    Could it be because there is more room for liquid in bottles then there are in sippy cups (depending upon the kind you have)? Otherwise, I don’t see how it could link to obesity.

  3. momto1 says:

    My son used bottles less than 10 times in his life. I exclusively breastfed and rarely pumped. Some time around 6-8 months (I can’t recall), I introduced the Avent trainer cups for sips of water. The he used a more traditional sippy cup and a Nuby straw cup around one year of age.

    Weaning off a bottle is difficult for some kids. Some kids sleep with a favorite blanket, some use pacifies, some have routines they cling to, and some need an occasional bottle after the time when the majority of kids have been weaned. I don’t think it is harmful as long as the child learns to use other devices such as straws, open cups, etc., isn’t sleeping with it, and is not sucking on it throughout the day. Sippy cups aren’t much better anyway.

  4. Rina Tapp says:

    You have prepared a few motivating elements on being overweight. Extraneous mass about the waistline can cause urinary incontinence – did you realize that? Added fat on your abs region puts increased strain on your bladder. Surplus strain makes it more most likely that your bladder will spill.. UI caused by the furthered stress on the bladder, which enables you to trickle pee, is referred to as stress incontinence. Actions that primarily give rise to situations of stress incontinence normally include laughing, sneezing, coughing or kneeling. Before gaining your extra surplus weight, if you had indications of UI – as a general rule your stress incontinence will get worse. On the flip side – dropping the fat can frequently scale down its severity. Having mentioned that– if you are going through urinary incontinence — there are countless product or services accessible to assist you. For instance, incontinence under garments, incontinence liners, adult briefs, etc. The bonus about the web– is you can go shopping without scurrying into your associates or neighbors!

  5. Magpies says:

    I’ve seen some kids much older than two sucking on a bottle. They’re usually fat, come to think of it. There’s the occasional parent who babies a kid to death, so who knows. I would guess the “weight is kililng me” people on TV–with their mothers or aunts providing gross amounts of food–could have had been one of these kids.

  6. Lizziebeth730 says:

    Rina, just as an FYI, most 2 year olds are still incontinent of urine. This article is about children, not overweight adults. Perhaps you might want to actually read the article, which will mention the ages of those being studied, prior to selling you adult urinary products.