Getting rid of that last bottle

Angelina - posted on 09/13/2011

I went from bottle to a sports sipper then gradually stayed with the sippy. At 13 months he was done with it, get a sippy at night with water. But He has a pacifier which is hard to wean him of cause his teething , i feel for you with the teeth. Have you tried a sports sipper for toddlers, or soft tip sippy cup? Good luck!

Carol - posted on 09/12/2011

what about giving her a sippy cup? instead of the bottle? they have the ones that go through different stages from a bottle to a sippy cup all in one. did you try that???

Jayne - posted on 09/09/2011

My son doesn't have a drink after 6 o clock and he doesn't want another by then either. If he did have a drink his nappy would fill up very quickly that I'd have to disturb him in his sleep to change it. I've read that you should discourage drinks in the evening because it leads onto bed wetting in the future if they develop it into a habit. I think alot of children go through the bed wetting phase though but if there are ways to prevent it happening it is worth doing. They'd soon let you know in their sleep if they are thirsty. All kids have a different soothing technique too, that must be hers. My son had separation anxiety, he was very use to falling asleep in my arm when I breastfed him he didn't know he could fall asleep on his own. It took about 4 weeks of using the sleep technique and now it's a case of read him a book and he isn't interested in the rocking, the cuddling he just wants putting down. I haven't got him on sippy cups yet, tried him but he just spits out or chokes, maybe I need to give him more time to get use to it. I still have him on a dummy too but only at naps and bed times but I think he wouldn't have much problem getting off that. Try the sleep separation technique, take it away, do the usual bedtime rountine put down, if she cries leave her for 10 minutes go back up etc etc but you can't give up on the technique it does work, they aren't in pain they just don't understand they have the ability to soothe themselves.

Korin - posted on 09/04/2011

Mine was a night time bottle addict as well. We got rid of it by buying her some sippy cups with a strawon the top. She still got to suck, it just wasn't a bottle. We also started giving it a little earlier than her usual bottle. After a while with the sippy cup with a straw, she started getting water instead of milk. She just kind of lost interest.

Claire - posted on 09/04/2011

Perseverance thats all its takes and good will power dont give in to her demands x

Katie - posted on 09/04/2011

My daughter was a year when she stopped taking bottles, and never took a nighttime bottle, so I say, get rid of the nighttime bottle. Why don't you try every night, giving her a little less in her bottle. This way you are not taking it away all at once, and its more of weaning and she won't be upset at bedtime and with the routine.

Ashley - posted on 09/03/2011

I just started weaning my son since the 1st this month. I'm sure he has enough fluids during the evening so he isnt thristy. He liked lots of bottles at night but the first night woke up once fussing then fell alseep and last night woke up twice mostly yelling then crying. I'm guessing it really takes our patience and when he does fuss i dont remind him he doesnt get a bottle just that its time to sleep. My oldest (9yrs) took three days to finally sleep through when cut off, so we are looking forward to full nights rests any day now! Good luck:)

Kimberly - posted on 09/03/2011

At 1 year old I stopped the bottle and binky cold turkey with my daughter, as well as any nighttime drinks, no bottle no sippy cup before bed. I started a different routine with her and she adapted very well. She eats dinner gets a bath, we read a book and then bed. Maybe you can try something like that?

Emily - posted on 09/02/2011

My son got rid of the bottle by himself. We added sippy during the day (bah bah's were a no no during the day) and asked the grandparents to only give sippys. And he got so used to drinking sippys during the day that it became no problem for a sippy at night. He would even throw the bottle out of his crib if offered. And now even though it is offered he doesn't always drink sippy to fall asleep.
Though as long as he had his Scout toy that plays music and his special blankets he could care less. :) I have a feeling the blanket will be harder to get rid of.

Heather - posted on 09/02/2011

my daughter went off the bottle right at a year with no problems @ all..but we do give her a sippy cup @ bedtime with WATER in it..no problem at all about giving up the pacifier either (that was at 3 months) good luck

Sandra - posted on 09/02/2011

My son got switched from a bottle to a sippy cup... kinda the same thing but we only give him water in it now. one thing is to put water in the bottle and milk in the sippy. once she is done with the bottle, put water in the sippy... it worked for my son and it only took a few days for him to get used to it.

Teresa - posted on 09/01/2011

we just started trying to get rid of our son's bedtime bottle bout 20 minutes go! i can still hear him crying in his bed, actually.
as with everything else (soother, other bottles), we;'ve been going cold turkey. i gave him a cup of milk (instead of diluted juice) at dinner and told him there was no bedtime baba tonight. then when it was time to go to bed, we did jammies, teeth, and instead of bottle, we sat in the same spots on the couch as we usually do, but we read a book instead.

Becky - posted on 08/30/2011

we just got our son off of his last bottle (naptime) last month. We had him say bye bye to it. Now i give him a sippy cup of warm milk before bedtime and naptime to help relax him. he THREW A FIT the first couple of days using the cup instead but once he discovered that was all he got, now he asks for his "cup" rather than "bottle" and does fantastic... i'd try using a cup. What we used to do with DS before bedtime was give him his bottle and rock him while feeding it to him, then read his "night" story and lay him down.... when we weaned him from his night bottle, we started giving him a cup of warm milk while sitting at the couch and read him two books... then we bring him to the bathroom, he brushes his teeth, and then we go to his bedroom, rock him and read his night story, and then lay him in his bed. It works great !

Jacqueline - posted on 08/29/2011

Hi there, Does she understand the concept of bye-bye yet? With my first daughter i simply told her they were going bye-bye and we through them in the trash. No big deal. Binky, whole different story! Or every thing else i have seen says start establishing different bedtime routine that excludes bottles and stick with it! good Luck!