Holding and rocking my children while feeding them from a bottle was one of the bonding strategies we used when each of our 3 children were placed with us. My son was 2 1/2 so it worked pretty well. My daughters were 4 and 5. It was part of regressing to an earlier stage where we could establish a connection and build on it. My 5 year old really liked it so I kept it up for a couple of years and then told her that most babies outgrow the bottle in a couple of years and so should she. I quit doing the bottle feeding after that time but she still likes to drink out of a bottle once in a while at now age 10. The other two gave it up pretty easily. We have good memories of those times. 
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