Over at Babble, Katie Allison Granju says she knows how Katie Holmes feels with the recent scrutiny she’s received about Suri still being on the bottle. Her almost-2-year-old is also still on the bottle. And people are looking at her funny.

My only child that used a bottle self-weaned at 12 months, but I can relate on the weaning issue with my daughter. She was long past 2 before I finally managed to talk her into weaning from the boob, and it was a hard fought battle at that. The “when are you going to wean her from breastfeeding” conversations had started when she was about 6 months old, both from strangers and family. By the time she was ready to wean, we were no longer nursing in public (try being discreet with a giant toddler flapping your shirt up for all to see, ha!) so the only people I was hearing it from was my family. And that was hard.

There is the worry of rotten teeth from the late weaning, but I’m also of the mind that children who need the extra comfort should receive it. I feel lucky that I only had to worry about this with one of my children. My youngest son, like my oldest son, self-weaned at 12 months. Neither of those rough and tumble guys needed the extra comfort.