Darl, every child is different. I'm an old fart myself but that hasn't stopped grannies coming up to me and telling me everything I'm doing wrong with my child. It's really hard not to take it to heart but you know your child best. DD1 is a bit of a wild child. It's a fine line between knowing when I should be disciplining and when I should be choosing my battles IYKWIM. But as long as there's progress, I think that's all that matters. She's a lot better behaved than she was six months ago.
As for the bottles, cot and TT - well, they're really quite minor stuff in the whole scheme of things. I mean, no-one at her 18th birthday is going to ask her when she started sleeping in a bed, stopped drinking out of a bottle or stopped wearing nappies. They will, however, notice whether she's a good person, a kind person etc. etc. and those are the things that matter. Have a cuppa and pat yourself on the back for loving your daughter.
My DS was in a cot until he was about 26 months - and only got him out to put #2 in it. I actually think waiting for as long as we did was to our benefit as he made the transition in one day.
As for TT it has been a gradual process over almost 2 years to get to the point of being confident he'll go on his own . He's still in nappies at night and we are only just starting to think about that.
Don't be so hard on yourself. As the others have said kids (and parents) do things in their own time and sometimes rushing into something before they are ready can be worse than waiting a bit.
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