Suri Cruise is Approaching Her Fourth Year with a Bottle

Child development experts remain in two minds about the time of weaning off the bottle while little Suri Cruise, who will be 4 this Sunday, is still happily sucking at one.

While her mother, Katie Holmes, is engrossed in her new crime picture, Son of No One, in New York, Suri can be seen befriending her bottle.

Isn’t it a bit too late for that, UsMagazine wanted to know.

Yes is the answer from pediatrician Dr. Jennifer Shu, known as one of the authors of the book Food Fights. Even much too late, for a baby’s facial muscles are developed enough to allow for sipping from a cup or using a straw by the time he or she is nine months old. Shu claimed to be completely at a loss why should Cruise and Holmes be overlooking such a blatant relapse. It’s like making your baby crawl when she can walk, aws her astonished comment to Us.

No, replied pediatrician Dr. Harvey Karp, whose book and DVD are called The Happiest Toddler on the Block. It’s all right unless the kid shows reluctance to let go of the bottle altogether, but it’s normal for them to suck “when they are tired or bored.”

Source of the image: celebritybabyscoop.com.