my son is nearly 3 and still has a bottle of milk at night to get him to sleep but he has started to say his bottle doesnt work and i have noticed he is havin trouble suckin the teet. is he losin his sucking reflex.
2007-08-01 22:34:50 · 6 answers · asked by wendy c 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
he drinks out of a cup all day long so its not that he cant he is very well develped for his age but prefers a bottle to a beaker at bed
2007-08-01 23:08:28 · update #1
My daughter also had a bottle till she was nearly 3 and the only reason she had to was because it was a habit we let her get into. I would be taking the bottle away from your son very soon. The old saying ' the new baby next door/our baby etc...needs it now" doesn't work so don't bother with that. I just replaced it with a new drink bottle that sits on the night table and a teddy to cuddle. and "tickles" with my finger nails up and down her back to relax her before sleeping. If she cried I ignored it, which sounds cruel but without the bottle we felt so free!!
The bottle teat is probably just getting too small for your son now. You can't lose the sucking reflex, you just outgrow the need for it as you get older, but it never leaves.
2007-08-02 00:19:38 · answer #1 · answered by Cindy; mum to 3 monkeys! 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
His mouth is probably too big now and/or he can't get enough milk out of the bottle through the nipple and it annoys him.
He should be drinking from a cup by now.
Kids don't "lose" their sucking reflex - they simply start to understand what sucking is and can decide to do it when they want to or when they don't. It only applies to newborns, who have have a sucking "reflex" which is unconscious. Put something in their mouths and they will suck it. It helps them survive. You could never teach a newborn to suck - they just know how to do it instinctively.
You almost 3 year old would have lost his sucking reflex pretty much a few months after birth.
2007-08-01 22:49:35 · answer #2 · answered by TaniaP 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sucking reflex disappears at about 6 months of age.
2007-08-02 00:29:20 · answer #3 · answered by mumontherun 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw a program on this a while ago about people breastfeeding their kids till they were 10. This is around the time they lose the natural reflex so dont worry he should still have it now.
2007-08-02 11:27:58 · answer #4 · answered by thebippy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
speak to your health visitor about this one, I'm sure that they would prefer your son to have a cup or sealed beaker rather than a babies bottle at the age of 3. its not good for his teeth, especially if its just before bed time.
2007-08-01 22:46:25 · answer #5 · answered by louise 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if you just keep the milk coming it dont stop till you hit metapause or if you stop at all they will dry up till you have another kid actually i dont know why they dont pay chicks instead of cows and instead of chickens no but i think the first one is practical id drink it
2007-08-01 23:27:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋