2 year old loves her bottle...help

Nicole - posted on 09/15/2010

You can just take it away. My doctor told me to do that and when my son was thirsty enough he would drink out of a sippie cup. What I did was I took my son to the store and let him pick out his sippie cups himself. I made a big show of it and by the time we got home he WANTED to drink out of his sippie cup. Good luck hun.

Amy - posted on 09/15/2010

Pull a supernanny move. Have her take all her bottles and give put them in a bag herself to give to the "bottle fairy" to give to all the babies. I've seen her do that on a few episodes with pacifiers. My friend has a 2 year old son who also loves his bottle. She knows it's not good for him, so she finally started weaning him off. He only gets a bottle at naptime and bedtime. During the day he gets a sippy cup.

Rebecca - posted on 09/15/2010

Hi there, Ive recently taken my 2 and a half year old son off the bottle. He absolutely LOVED his bottles. But it was getting a bit out of hand, sometimes having them 4 times a day! So a friend of mine had the bottle fairy come at night and take the bottles away, and leave a little present, and fairy dust etc. Of course a fairy means nothing to my son, so i used his number one love, Trucks. So we told him a week in advance about this huge, amazing bottle truck that drives by every night. And one special night we would put all of his bottles in a bag and hang them on the front gate, and the truck would stop and pick them up, then take them to other little babies who need bottles. And this awesome big bottle truck would leave a thank you present. And of course the present was his favourite, and really cool truck! From then on, he only asked a couple of times, and we just reminded him of how the truck had been and they were gone.
The moral to the story, find something she loves dearly, and use it to your advantage. Thats the best part of it being with a 2 year old, we can trick them. Hehe. Good luck.

Lacie - posted on 11/04/2008

My son was 2 and still wouldn't go to sleep at night or even for a nap without his bottle. So, finally I had him throw the bottle in the trash and we said "bye bye" to the bottle and we cheered and clapped for him. The next 4 or 5 nights were really hard, but we just kept telling him that he is a big boy now and big boys don't have bottles. It was really tough the first few nights, but now he never even asks for it. I tried slowly taking it away from him but that never worked. Good Luck!

Cassie - posted on 11/04/2008

I replaced my daughter's bottle with a nuby sippie cup. Maybe not the best advice but it does work and saves alot of heart ache. My doctor said it was a good idea. Hope this helps!

Kari - posted on 11/04/2008

Sorry, I haven't ever had this problem. It sounds mean, but when both of my kids turned 1, I mean literally the day after their birthday we threw out all of their bottles and my son's pacifiers. They were sad for about a day or two, then they were over it. We started giving them sippy cups around 10 months, so that they were used to those, then did away with the bottles. The only problem is, my daughter never took a paci, she sucks her thumb and I can't figure out how to get her to stop sucking that! Good luck though.

Jodie - posted on 11/04/2008

i had the same problem with my son who is now 12... on his 2 birthday we talk him he was a big boy now and asked him to help me put his bottle and dummy in the bin... he loved putting it in the bin and saying bye to it... we then take him to the shop to get him big boy cup it was a normal kids cup... we had a few spills but he also love helping to clean it up.... i wish you all the best..... good luck

Jasmine - posted on 11/04/2008

I noticed at Walmart they carry sippy cups with the soft nipple like spout. My daughter is 15 months and she prefers those kind of cups than the hard spout sippy cups. Try giving your daughter one of those at first to see if she notices the difference from the bottle.

Brianna - posted on 11/04/2008

I have the same problem but I cant get rid of the bottles because I have a 6 month old too so I have no clue what to do.

Jamea - posted on 11/04/2008

i dont have this problem mainly because my 9 month old only wants to nurse and most of the time refuses a bottle but my friend had a huge problem with this from all three of her kids. take her into the kitchen and grab all of her bottles and show her that you say it is time to move onto a big girl cup and throw away the bottle and when she asks for it offer her a sippy cup but dont give in she will probably be pretty upset for awhile but eventually she will get over it and be fine and probably learn that she loves being a big girl. also using a bottle and/or binkie at this age can cause some pretty bad teeth problems especially if she falls asleep with milk in her mouth it can cause tooth decay so probably the sooner you get her off of it the better. my younger brother who is seven now just got off the bottle and his has terrible teeth problems now because of it, the dentist is very upset and my parents for letting him keep this bad habit! im sure your daughter is fine because she is 2 but my brother will be in a very bad position since he already has most of his permamnent teeth! good luck!

Paula - posted on 11/03/2008

I am in the same boat. My daughter is 17 months old, and I see no end in sight. She loves her bottle. To make things worse, I have an 8 month old son. She sees his bottle and cannot understand why he gets one and she can't have hers. Sometimes she even takes his away. I'm just hoping that she will be through with her bottle when its time to break him. Then maybe I can just get rid of them all at once, suffer for a few days, and be done. It really breaks your heart when she is lying in bed crying and you know all you have to do is give her the bottle and she will be ok.

Rhiannon - posted on 11/03/2008

My daughter is nearly 3 and i only just managed to get her off her bottle 3 months ago... it was hard coz her father and i are separated and i was moving into a new house with my new partner. I just slowly cut it down. Explained to her that she is a BIG girl now and that she can drink out of a cup like mummy and all the other big kids. On days when she acted up about it...i just sed the birdie came in and flew away with her bottle.... HIDE all bottles at this stage, they are smart, so hide them in a different place from where you normally keep them. keep persisting...if you keep giving in its just going to get harder and they know that if they shed a few tears they will get it... Another way while im at it... If you want a drink its in the cup drink it out of here or dont have a drink....if they are that thirsty they will drink it from what you give it to them in.. dont worry you wont be depriving them of a drink.... I hope that helps, persistance is the main thing

Fallon - posted on 11/03/2008

I'm having the same problem at the moment with my 2 and 1/2 year old daughter. Needs the bottle to go to sleep and if she gets into trouble she asks for bottle straights away. I have been told to let her cry herself to sleep. Does not work. She cried for nearly an hour one night and I was a mess by then and gave in. I felt so awful and mean.

Manda - posted on 11/03/2008

I had this problem with my son a couple months ago. He refused to give up his bottle. I found these sippy cups from Nuby that are spill proof and leak proof (they were around $2.00 each at Wal-Mart) and the lid is the same texture as a bottle so it made the transition much easier. Also, I would only give him water in his bottle and put juice or milk in the sippy cup. I would give him the choice of which he wanted and after a couple days I didn't need the option of the bottle anymore. Once he got used to those, I started phasing those out with the hard plastic lid sippy cups and now we're working on cups with straws.

Ashley - posted on 11/03/2008

Nuby makes a cup that is very similar to a bottle, but is supposed to be more like a sippy cup. It has a straw the sticks right up in the middle. My sister is having the same problem with my neice....she has gotten to where she only needs it for bedtime now. But I think the cup has helped. Just a thought.

Tara - posted on 11/03/2008

Thank you. I have thrown all but one away in the last 6 months...I have looked for a cup with a soft spout to 'replace' the bottle. She does like the cup, but always is in search for her bottle. She will be turning 2 on Saturday, and I have vowed that she will no longer have her bottle by then....

Danielle - posted on 11/03/2008

hi i had that problem wit my boy who is now 6 and we took his bottle away from him at 2 we used 2 give him the bottle u buy in the shop u know the drinking bottles wit the lids that pull up well we started weeing him on to them then one day i gave him a cup n wit oput him knowing though his bottle away. Wen he asked where it was i told him the bottle fair took it away as she needed it to make it clean for another baby as he was a big boy now. so try and c if tht works

Amanda - posted on 11/03/2008

I also think that if they are all gone you are less likely to give in to the crying, and demanding!!!! Which means that you will eliminate the problem.

Vanessa - posted on 11/03/2008

Im having the same problem, my little boy is 2 and his bottle is his security thing as he never had a dummy. it's so hard to even try take it off him!! but his daycare mums said the same thing about making a big thing of it on bin day!!

Amanda - posted on 11/02/2008

I would have to say that I have never had this problem but at 2 at least she can understand and you can talk to her about it. Have heard people say that they got there child to give it to santa for all the other little babies who don't have one. Otherwise I would say that next garbage day chuck them ALL in the bin and go through a couple of bad days but have it over and done with!!!! Goodluck!!!!