Is Suri Too Old to Hit the Bottle?

Posted May 7th 2008 7:18AM by TMZ Staff

Maybe it's what LRH prescribes, but Suri Cruise is too old to be drinking from a bottle, say doctors – medical doctors.

Suri was spotted yesterday slurping a bottle as she and Scientolomom Katie Holmes strolled Madison Avenue, but Usmagazine.com talked to some pediatricians who say that the two-year-old should've been drinking from a sippy cup already. Most babies are weaned off a bottle by 18 months.

Given her parents' insistence on keeping her under the stairs – this could explain a lot.

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61. My son was off of the bottle and on a sippy cup at 10 months old. He is also developmentally disabled with Autism. He is now 14 years old and does not need braces. Suri will!!! The bottle protrouds out your teeth and any Speech Pathologist will say no way to a bottle or pacifier after 1 year. Does Scientiology say she should be on the bottle. Seems like the Cruise family doesn't make a move without consulting them first. Get some backbone and learn how to be proper parents.

Posted at 12:35PM on May 7th 2008 by robin

62. My two kids stayed on the bottle way past three years old and now my grandson is 3 and still on the bottle... no orthodontic problems...they had a bottle at nap and bedtime... some kids are very attached to their bottles and I think it is cruel to take it away until THEY are ready.....suck away Suri.......

Posted at 12:52PM on May 7th 2008 by stljill

63. thank you! I've been saying the same thing (about Suri & the bottle) for almost a year now. My son is a month older than her & he's been off the bottle since he turned 1.

as for the breast milk in the bottle. yes, they look like the bags you store breast milk in, but they are actually Playtex Drop In's that you can use for anything (formula, juice, breast milk, etc). That's what my son used. So, it's not necessarily breast milk.

Posted at 1:24PM on May 7th 2008 by tnkcfan

64. Barbara Walters and Joy Behar might've kept quiet, but Rosie O'Donnell spoke the truth, as one phat gal to another. The former prosecutor, Star Jones, played fast and loose with the truth and presumed to lecture the American public on diet and exercise. Walters was not acting as a journalist, but as a co-conspirator.

Rihanna and boyfriend may as well announce their coupling. Jay-Z is married.

Posted at 1:28PM on May 7th 2008 by Carolyn A-B

65. As much as I would love to slam Tom and Katie's parenting because I think they are freaks, I have to admit, its not that unusual nor a reflection on parenting because a child still has a bottle at 2. My first son was off the bottle at 11 months, we tried to do the same with our second son, same technique etc, cause it worked so well with the first, but he is still using the bottle along with starting onto the sippy cup at 20 months, on the other hand, my soon to be 3 yr old has no interest in the potty- has been diagnosed as toilet-training resistant but his 20 month old brother is using it just fine. Each kid is an individual who will have their own strengths and weaknesses, then again, if we keep seeing Suri, and she isn't hitting multiple developmental targets for her age...then its time to start looking at the parents if she is otherwise healthy.

Posted at 1:49PM on May 7th 2008 by Anna

66. My daughter will be 2 in August - Suri was 2 in April & my baby hasnt looked at the bottle since Chirstmas!! And she uses straws!! Now i know Im a proud mama - but Tom! Katie! Give it a break - let her grow up!

Posted at 2:08PM on May 7th 2008 by JuJuMal1213

67. My 3 year old still drinks from a bottle - but she is autistic. I wonder if Suri has a developmental issue.

Posted at 2:27PM on May 7th 2008 by PJS

68. jJEAN-LOVELY TO SEE YOU BACK AND GLAD YOU ENJOYED BALI. WHY NOT CHECK OUT TMZ? EVERYBODY KNOWS THE SUN IS WAY TO STRONG MID AFTERNOON FOR THE BEACH!!! AS FOR FUGLY STAR....WHATS LEFT TO BE SAID.....SAGGY SKIN, BAD WEAVE, PAYLESS BOOTS AND A GUY WHO WISHES HE WAS IN BALI????

Posted at 2:52PM on May 7th 2008 by emma

69. They can afford to get Suri's teeth fixed if they come in funny. If the bottle gives her comfort then who cares. One of my son had his bottle for two years and then he gave it up with no complaints or consequences. With the other son I took his bottle away from him when he was about 14 months old and for the next four years he looked like Linus, the kid in Peanuts, with a blanket and two fingers in his mouth. Suck, suck, sucking for dear life on those fingers.....I should have let him have his bottle longer.

Posted at 2:56PM on May 7th 2008 by Lana

70. I'm a firm believer that kids need that bottle for sucking until they cut their three year molars. It shouldn't be all day long but the bottle does ease the discomfort on their gums. Some kids suffer from more pain from cutting teeth than others.

Suri is a beautiful child. And I imagine, like all little ones, is intent on getting her way. It's very easy to say "ditch the botttle" and much harder to actually do it. Even non-famous parents go through this.

Cut them all some slack. She's a kid, her parents love her. She's not going to be ruined by sucking on a bottle.

Posted at 4:19PM on May 7th 2008 by Maui

71. ONE a sippy cup is just as bad as a bottle. In order to not have any added damage a childs teeth you would have to have them drink soley from a regular cup or a cup with a straw. Who's crazy enough to give a one or two year old a regular cup. Not me I don't plan on cleaning spills all day. The only harm from abottle is if you allow them to continue sucking on it one they are already asleep and the milk or juice sits on thier teeth. Just cause a person drank out of a bottle till older than 18 months does not mean they will have problems with thier teeth as adults. Learn your facts before criticising someone's parenting skills. I bet half or you don't even have kids

Posted at 5:12PM on May 7th 2008 by Suri can have her bottle

72. Am I the only one who is sad to see all these parents slamming one another in here, as well as slamming some celebrity couple they've never met? We all don't have to agree on parenting, but that doesn't mean there is only one way to parent every single child. Children are individuals and vary greatly. They grow at different rates and reach milestones when they're ready. Who cares if she is on the bottle? She'll give it up when she's ready, all children do.

Someone else mentioned that she'd probably never been immunized, like that was a sure sign of parental negligence. It's a parent's choice whether or not they want to immunize their child because if their child suffers an adverse reaction or dies, they alone will deal with the consequences of that for the rest of their lives. That scenario is unlikely, but it can and has happened. Many people who opt out of immunizing their children have been researching that topic for years. How do you know she isn't medically exempted? We don't know and it's none of our business. Many folks are all for mandatory immunization policies until it is their own child that is the sacrificial lamb, permanently brain damaged.

Don't judge and teach your children to judge without knowing the full story. It's our responsibility to teach our kids to be the best people they can be and productive members of society, not judgmental jerks who pretend to know everything and tell everyone else they're parenting wrong.

Posted at 6:00PM on May 7th 2008 by Stop it!

73. Please get Suri off of that bottle!! Both of my kids were off of the bottle when they turned a year old...when they were off formula, they went straight to the cup. Katie and Tom might have to deal with a little fusiness, but hey, they can afford a nanny to listen to the crying of they don't want to hear it.

Posted at 6:27PM on May 7th 2008 by Rachel

74. To: Posted at 5:12PM on May 7th 2008 by Suri can have her bottle

I totally agree with you about the Sippy Cup trend. Many kids transition to these cups and suck on them much like a bottle taking them to bed etc., not much different from a bottle.

Posted at 6:42PM on May 7th 2008 by eve

75. Rachel
Just like you are slamming Tom and Katie for NOT getting Suri off the bottle there are many out there (Doctors included) that would be slamming you for giving your kid FORMULA! I am a pediatric nurse, and drinking a bottle of milk causes NO HARM to a child's teeth or oral development!!!! You people that keep saying that are really showing your ignorance! It causes about as much harm as if she were to be drinking it from a cup. I don't agree with putting juices and sugar filled liquids in bottles, but milk is just fine! Jazzy had it right when she/he said that doctors promote breast feeding as long as possible, it's true, a new study that just came out yesterday shows that breast fed children are significantly more intelligent than formula fed babies. So like I said why give your child formula when breast milk is better in so many ways. I personally think that giving your baby, formula, is more harmful and negligent than letting a child drink from a bottle past the age of 1. NO baby's oral development was EVER compromised due to drinking a bottle. THUMBSUCKING yes, BUT NOT BOTTLE DRINKING. Whoever it was that said a physician would rather see a pacifier in a child's mouth than a bottle is out of their mind! Kids that take a pacifier usually have it in their mouths constantly,causing problems, except when they are drinking/eating/sleeping. When bottles are used the milk is drank and then it's over. Nothing harmful can come out of sucking on a bottle for 8 minutes 3 to 4 times a day. COMEON people, some of you are not even thinking right!

Posted at 7:01PM on May 7th 2008 by Heidi

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