To each their own! I agree, this little girl has a lot to shoulder and the bottle probably gives her much needed relief and comfort! She has plenty of time to grow out of it on her own terms.

I completely agree with Rebecca. Suri looks like a happy and healthy little girl. It’s no one’s business but the Cruises. It is such a shame that the papparazzi harrasses children of celebrities, the kids should be off-limits.

I agree with both posts.  Leave them alone.  She looks happy and healthy to me.

I thought this was a joke when I first read it - honestly?  Thinking for a second that it’s any of our business is just ridiculous to me.... I just think it’s so important for use to support eachother as mommies/parents rather than to look for things to criticize about!  Heck, I’d be more concerned about the negative effects of the media/paparazzi on Suri’s development than whether or not she’s still taking a bottle (which she won’t still be doing at 16, LOL!).

Children don’t naturally lose their sucking reflex until they are close to 4 years of age. Good for them for recognizing this. If she wants to satisfy that reflex so be it. If they take it away it’s very likely she will find something else to satisfy it. That’s why so many kids suck thumbs blankets and whateve else they can get in their mouth. I agree Katie is a mom just like us. Give the girl a break!

Everyone should mind there own darn business.  What gives US Magazine or any other the right to hire docs etc and judge.  Everyone who dares to judge this little innocent girl just because her parents are actors should have their personal lives disected and judged and see how they appreciate their parenting habits to be judged. For god’s sake there is so many much more important things to research leave the kid alone!

Gee, I wish I could meet these perfect parents at this magazine, I imagine their children are off the bottle and pacifier, sleep through the night in their own beds every night, never cry, hit, bite, melt down or talk back, are potty-trained and never have accidents, get straight A’s, never try drugs or alcohol, are not pregnant at 16, never drop out of school and are the homecoming king/queen while being president of the honor society. Maybe they and their perfect doctors could teach us all how they do it.
Seriously, leave these families alone! What would the ‘experts’ find if they could examine all of our habits? thank goodness I’m not a celeb and no one cares how I raise my family.

Leave them alone! Suri looks loved and happy and that’s what counts.

I think most of the time a mom is the one who is in tune with her kids and can tell when they are ready to say bye bye to the bottle. I do not appreciate when other people tell me how to raise my kids, and I’m sure Katie, and all of us really, are the same way. When I thought my daughter was getting ready to leave the bottle behind I told her a story about the baba fairy.

When little kids are ready to say bye bye to the baba they will gather up all their bottles and put them in a sack outside the door for the baba fairy. The baba fairy would come along at night and take all the baba’s to bottle land where they all live happily ever after, full of their favorite drink. The baba fairy will leave a big kid present in place of the bottles and the little kid is officially turning into a big kid. We left our daughter a cute purse with a couple cute new sippy cups inside.

She loved it and seemed to forget about her bottles. We ask her a few times if she was sure she was ready for the baba fairy to come and she said she was sure. We had her gathering up her bottles, putting them in the sack and putting the sack outside. She did ask once where her bottles were and we reminded her she gave them to the baba fairy, she remembered and went to play with her new purse.

I know it’s not that easy for everyone but I was very surprised how easily this worked for us. Of course we had already had sucess with the binky fairy, it worked just a easily.

There was about a week between reading the story and the visit. Every night we asked “Are you ready for the baba fairy to come tonight and see what you big kid present is?” One night the answer was yes and that was that.

What about the breast? Everyone seems fine with the idea of bottle, but was this child breastfed at all? Of course, that is their own private decision. If they are considered role models for other parents in any way, I would prefer to hear that Katie is still nursing her happy toddler.

The longer you breastfeed, the better yet the less you bottlefeed the better????  Seems like it doesn’t make sense.  If the kid is happy sucking away, it’s not hurting anyone.  Leave her alone.  You are only little once.

I’m not really sure who is “objecting” to her having a bottle, and why it is their business. And from the looks of all the posts, most people agree that it is no one’s business that she drinks a bottle but her parents. Personally, I don’t think a two year is such a horrid thing to have a bottle. Hello, it’s just a means of getting nutrition and drinks for a small child. Drinking out of a bottle or a sippee cup until they are older is hardly something that would make someone into a serial killer. Geez. Why not just write about what an adorable ,loved little girl she is.

If there’s one thing I love more than a celebrity baby, it’s a celebrity baby with rotting absessed teeth.

Seriously, take it away already. It’s a crutch for the parents. Then we can start talking about what really matters - her exposure to Scientology.