Hi All,
I feel rather out of this discussion. My 4yo has taken to demanding in
an irritated voice, why I don't give her brother a bottle "like normal
babies" and is quite, quite determined that "babies have bottles". Her
grandmother took her to a children's farm the other day, and she came
back claiming that the animals were all bottlefeeding.
   "The mummy pig held the bottle of milk in her teeth and fed her baby,
but she was very, very careful so she didn't break it" (the only
"bottles" my kids know about are the glass bottles of cow's milk we get
delivered to the door every morning).

I am currently nursing, so I have shown my children that there is milk
in there and even expressed some for them, but the filthy look I got
suggested they think I am really quite peculiar in the head. I have a
feeling if I push it, my older daughter will become even more firmly
entrenched in her position. At least my 2yo still "nurses" by holding
her teddies up to her belly button :-)
--
Anna H.
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http://www.ratbag.demon.co.uk/anna/

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