The Breeders: Bottles Are For Babies

The bogeyman in the closet of every breastfeeding mom is a silicone nipple. Introduce it too early and it threatens nipple confusion. Introduce it too late and you may have to kiss your freedom to leave your baby for more than three hours goodbye. 

We were lucky, the kid took to the bottle like a champ. I got to leave the kid for a , and eventually go , while dad or grandma gave the kid a bottle. He was cool with that.

We introduced solid food and he was cool with that, too. Well, except for avocados — the kid hates avocados (evidently I did too, until I realized they were delicious). But, when you introduce solids for awhile it is less about keeping the kid well-fed and more about making sure there aren't any allergies and having fun with new textures — in other words making a giant mess. 

But, in the last few weeks, the kid has decided that while it is still fun to make a giant mess, food is delicious and bottles, well those silicone nipples are a pretty sweet toy, but if he is going to drink milk he'd rather get it from the source.

Any beverage that doesn't come directly from mom should be from a sippy cup, because well those... those make a bigger and more fun mess that silly old bottles.