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Something that;s never made sense to me


In the first half of the movie, Tina's older friend Laurie accompanies her to a clinic for a pregnancy test, or checkup, something like that and Laurie has her young daughter with her. While they are in the waiting room, Laurie lays her child on the floor to change her dirty diaper and Tina asks "What does she eat?" Laurie says "Mostly applesauce, pureed vegatables, breastmilk at night..." Now I'm an only child and I'm just now pregnant with my first child, so I don't have much in the way of experience with babies and young children, but isn't a child that age a little OLD for that kind of primary diet? I mean the kid is obviously close to three years old and her age is even mentioned by Laurie's mom during the movie ("If she hadn't had the baby she wouldn't be bound to taking care of a three year old today" or something along that line.) She might have even been two, but she obviously wasn't an infant and was big enough to be running around. Shouldn't she have been completely on solids by that point? I might understand some soft foods like applesauce still, but BREASTMILK? It seems to me she should be LONG off of that. Plus, why is she still in diapers? I'm not really familiar with normal toilet training ages, but I would think that, at the very least, a child that age would have graduated to underpants during the day and a pull up at night. Like I said, it's not territory I'm very familiar with, as of yet, LOL, but I just found it a little odd that a child that big would still be basically on baby food and wearing diapers.

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Some doctors will tell you the longer you can keep a child on breastmilk the better. Now, I'm not saying that she actually breastfeeds her at that age, but it's very possible that she still pumps and that is what she gives her in her night bottle. And the diaper thing isn't that uncommon. Some kids just don't take to potty training as fast as others. She could have been in the process of potty training her at the time, but if she hasn't gotten it down yet she most likely is in diapers still.

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It's not out of the question - some people breastfeed quite a long while. I had a friend whose daughter would climb onto her lap and open her shirt to breastfeed. Now I think that's a bit extreme... but it happens. Also my son wasn't potty trained until he was almost 4. Not for lack of my trying!!!

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I know old post but I came specifically to see if this was mentioned - it bothered me so much that a 2,3 year old was eating pureed foods, wth?!?! My 10 month old is eating solids and table food with us, but the breast milk is normal. My daughter is still breast feeding and I plan to until a little after one.

As well as the diapers. Some take a while to potty train :)

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