why do babies need to be taken off the bottle at 12 months?
If you were breastfeeding, it’s believed to be natural to continue for much longer. Note this: Research showed that humans’ natural age of weaning is a minimum of two and a half years and a maximum of between six and seven years. Researchers compared things such as the age of sexual maturity; the age of the eruption of permanent molars; the time when children quadrupled their birthweight; and the length of gestation. In every other primate, nursing continues for years, not just months. http://www.breastfeeding.com/reading_room/wean.html It’s not common in our culture to breastfeed for that long for a variety of reasons, but the same amount of time should apply to bottle feeding, too. But it doesn’t. Then again bottle milk doesn’t contain the same natural enzymes that breast milk does. In part it’s a medical bias that has set down arbitrary timetables for when things should be done. I think each child needs
