Suri Cruise is a Carlyle Cutie

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love her!!!

its time to ditch the bottle!

get out from thisthreadt. She do this bottle thingie so we talk about her. don’t give her that. Get out from here. sick of the little tommy girl side kick

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Oh no. Suri has her bottle. This thread will go insane in 5…4….3…2…1

I honestly don’t mind her with a bottle. Who cares she is 2 years old. As long as she doesn’t have a bottle at 4 years old.

HOWEVER, that bottle that she is using is for infants (with the bag in it).
She should switch bottles if Suri continues to use one.

Would you leave your daughter with that nut job?

Oh here we go again! Enough with the bottle discussion.
Katie is the mother. She raises Suri the way she wants. What right do you have to say anything about it? You don’t know the girl, you are not relative. You are just strangers who should mind your own business.
As far as we know, Suri is a happy, very healthy and beautiful 2 year old kid.

Suri is growing so fast. Her eyes are beautiful.

b4 she knows it that kids gunna be 16 and STILL sucking a bottle…

Why Suri Cruise Should Drop the Bottle
Extended Bottle-Feeding May Lead to Speech, Dental Problems, Pediatricians Say
By RADHA CHITALE and DAN CHILDS
ABC News Medical Unit
Aug. 8, 2008 —

In an era when young celebrity mothers are coming under increasing public scrutiny for how they are treating their kids, Katie Holmes’ decision to let 2½-year-old Suri Cruise suck away on her bottle may seem like a minor infraction.

But pediatricians say kids who continue to feed from a bottle past the recommended age may be at higher risk of a number of ills including speech problems, tooth erosion and deformation, and, not surprisingly, trouble letting the bottle go.

Although breast-feeding for 12 months is the gold standard in infant nutrition, pediatricians say introducing a sippy cup between 6 months and 12 months is fine and can be followed by drinking from a regular cup.

“You use different muscles in the mouth” using a cup, compared with a bottle, said Dr. Jennifer Kaplan, a pediatrician in private practice in Washington, D.C. “It helps with speech development.”

But some doctors are more concerned with how bottles can promote a dangerously dirty mouth. Dr. Miriam Labbok, director of the Center for Infant and Young Child Feeding and Care at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, points out that a child with a bottle will often hang on to the nipple and hold milk longer in the mouth where the sugars can cause tooth and gum damage. Sucking on the nipple can, over time, cause the position of teeth to shift in the gums.

In addition, long, slender bottles can be more difficult to clean than cups, causing bacteria to build up in crevices.

“Bottles are not innocuous,” Labbok said. “I don’t think it’s a healthy habit to continue for a long period of time… as early as a child can handle a cup the better.”

Experts also recommend dispensing with bottles early, around age 1, because of attachment. The longer a child uses a bottle and incorporates it into their routine, the more difficult it can be to finally give it up.

Hitting the Bottle
Holmes isn’t the first mom to be slow to wean her kid off the bottle, however. Lynette Ciervo, a 46-year-old mother of two daughters living in Rockville, Md., said she let both of her children continue to drink from bottles until they were age 3.

Ciervo notes, though, that she had practical reasons to allow her kids to keep using a bottle. She initially breast-fed her eldest child — also her only biological child — but medication that she required for an unrelated health condition forced her to stop after a month. Ciervo bottle-fed her second girl, who was adopted, from infancy.

When she tried to wean them off bottles, Ciervo found her girls rejected milk completely. Her pediatrician concluded that it was more important that the kids get milk than go off their bottles and told Ciervo to keep up the bottle-feeding until age 3.

“Both my girls loved bottles,” Ciervo said. “It was a soothing part of the routine, a way to transition into the mornings and before bedtime. … It’s like me with my morning coffee.”

But even though her kids are off the bottle now, they are still averse to milk. Her eldest, now 10, won’t touch the stuff — and the youngest, at age 5, only drinks flavored milk.

Breaking the Bottle Habit
As some kids may need to twirl their hair, carry around a blanket or cuddle with a favorite toy, sucking on a bottle or pacifier is a soothing behavior for many kids. Breaking the bottle habit can be made easier for children with strong sucking needs when parents recognize and are sensitive to those.

“It’s important that parents tune in to their individual child and what the bottle means to them,” said Claire Lerner, director of Parenting Resources at Zero to Three, a parenting resource Web site. “It’s not a monolithic response.”

Transitioning a child from a bottle to a sippy cup or a regular cup using goodbye rituals or stories of a “bottle fairy” that took it away might be a way for a parent to honor and respect a child’s needs.

Lerner pointed out that, if sucking on a bottle was the primary soothing thing a child did, that it was a parent’s responsibility to meet that need in another way or the transition will be more difficult.

But not all are convinced of the cons of bottle-feeding. Ciervo said she never noticed any speech problems in her girls, despite her younger daughter only giving up her pacifier one week ago.

“It was really hard,” Ciervo said. “But you know, when it’s time, they do give it up eventually.”

“As far as we know, Suri is a happy, very healthy and beautiful 2 year old kid.” Whose teeth are going to rot out of her head… Just ask any dentist or any pediatrician.

These pictures have to be from different times…. One set has Katie carrying Suri’s shoes, with Suri semi playing to the paps; then the next set shows the shoes on Suri with her trying to hide her face…… Ugggghhhhhh….. It is almost painful to view these pictures… and it is really getting disgusting that Katie has purposely placed her daughter in a situation that she is obviously uncomfortable with, time and time again. There has to be a back entrance or a side entrance that could have been taken to avoid the paps. Poor Suri.

Don’t people like you and those doctors have better things to do than concern themselves with the lives of celebrities, #25?

No, #26. Its not a Scientology thing at all. Its a ‘We’re parents who’ll raise our child as we see fit’ thing.

What’s with the blanket all the time?? Why not give the poor girl a raincoat since it’s raining??

Hasn’t Katie heard of the SIPPY CUP??? Yes, they were invented some time ago !!

I’m less concerned about Suri being on the bottle at two years old than I am about the fact that Katie lets that child stay up until all hours of the night. Suri seems to set her own bedtime and that is ridiculous for a two year old. At her age she should be in bed by 8 p.m. at the latest. What does she do, sleep all day long and stay up all night?

I’m getting the impression that Tom and Katie never discipline Suri and let her do pretty much whatever she wants to. Parenting is about setting limits. If Katie doesn’t know how to do that with Suri, she’d better learn how before Suri turns into another Paris Hilton.

Leave me alone. I will be beamed up to Xenu to be L. Ron Hubbard’s chief concubine for my mad skills as the defender of this family.

Take that.

#26 I didnt realize that Tim Klein had an over bite. Also, does anyone think it is funny that when Katie is with her shorter husband Tom she always wears stiletto heels, but, when she is not beside him she rocks her flats?

Suri stay up past a toddler’s bedtime. “She goes to sleep pretty late because we go to sleep late,” In the Cruise household, that means heading to bed at 11 pm and waking at 9 am. Katie told David Letterman.

The reason could lie in the couple’s Scientology beliefs that children should be treated as adults. - yikes. lol.

It’s just a blanket, #31. Kids have blankets. I get the whining about the bottle but a blanket?

I get that, #32. She’s purposely putting her daughter in uncomfortable situations. How do you know she’s purposely doing anything unless she told you or you’re a mind reader? What uncomfortable situations? She’s being harrassed by the paparazzi but it’s not her fault. Just because she’s famous it doesn’t mean she should be denied going outside.

Yes. There are ways not to be photographed but you accuse her of of photo ops every single time she’s seen outside which is crazy. She is famous and will be seen and photographed no matter how much she wants to.

Maybe there is no different entrance? Maybe this is faster entrance? Do you even know the hotel layout to complain? Quit nit-picking.

Quit making groundless assumptions on how they discipline their daughter, #33.

Thanks alot, #5. I’m gonna have to change my name again later.

Who says they DON’T set limits, #38? You’re one of those gullible people that read that they let Suri Cruise do whatever she wants and tells her that whenever she does soemthing wrong they just say it’s ‘the wrong action’?

No, #39. The reason is that they want to raise their daughter as they see fit. Quit blaming Scientology for every idiosyncrasy that you see when it comes to TomKat.

I don’t get it. Her parents waste hundreds of thousands of dollars on her wardrobe and they refuse to get her a sippy cup. I’m starting to wonder if Katie is tipping off the paps? Tom’s security team is with them at all times. Strange how Tom isn’t ever photographed doing menial day-to-day tasks. Her career is at a standstill. Nowadays she’s more famous for being in the tabloids.

I knew a little girl… hum…she was 8 years old, and she was still using a feddbottle before going to bed at night. She had to dropped it when she enter school ’cause eveybody was laughing at her.
I believe in the fact that Katie might drop the bottle pretty soon.

I heard that they use the blanket because in scientology thats a way to protect you’re child for bad spirits and that kind of stuff!!
so, there u have it!
Correct me if im wrong’

AAWWWWWWW

Katie is one pretty mom along with Suri that is so precious.

Why is that toddler still sucking a bottle at 2 years old?

Whatever you think of her father and mother, leave this innocent kid out of your hatred and sarcasm.

She drinks in a way she feels comfortable.

Suri annoys the hell out of me.

This child is obviously uncomfortable. If Katie would place the blanket gently over her head and walk thru the flashes, the problem would be solved. BUT instead the child is angled (or it seems like it from the photos so that the paps can get a good shot of her face. I just don’t get why as a parent she doesn’t do this simple thing.

GET OFF THE BOTTLE ALREADY!

Bring on Valkyrie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is one obnoxious little brat. Other kids are going to rib her about that baby bottle.

i am so sick of suri cruise. she is a spoiled rotten little child. this scientology crap of letting a child do whatever they want is pathetic. the fact is everyone HAS RULES. she is going to grow up, and be a very self centered, ugly little girl. it is doubly sad to see a child get designer clothes…..tom and katie should be ashamed. if you are so into ANY religion you should spend a bit more time and money doing for others when you have been so blessed! pathetic family! AND the worst thing, and this bugs me personally……tom cruise’s other children…you remember tom, your adopted son and daughter…used to be photographed with their dad quite a bit…well, it seems they have been pushed aside for none other than…suri! shame on all of you!….kids if you were smart, you would cling to your mom. she has a tight family, and would do you better as a parent than your selfish, ugly, father!?