Getting My Son off the Bottle

My son didn't take the bottle but he got attached to a nippie. We just had to let him fuss for the first couple days without it and he got over it. We gave him a new toy to sleep with and he was happier. Some people will make a trade with the child for something they like. But he will fuss and cry for a couple days till he understands that he isn't going to get it again then he will accept it. It is hard to not give in when you see them upset, but know that it will stop and he will be better for it later. I hope this helps.
Peace, love, and happiness,
L.

My advice is to start a bedtime routine that includes the bottle but doesn't end with it (slowly after he learns to expect to go to sleep without it you can replace it with a cup). Our routine went like this. Last drink of milk, brush teeth/wash face, two stories, lullaby and rocking, nighttime prayers and blessings and a hug and kiss goodnight. Yes he will cry and scream in the beginning if he can't fall asleep with it, but with time it should work and you'll get to sleep more! Good luck.

The only advice is to just take it away. You will have fits but eventually he will get over it and use a different type of cup that you offer him.

There are sippy cups, sippy cups with straws, kid cups, and kid cups with built in straws.

Hope yall figure it out and get through it easily :)

My 2.5 yr old Grace still takes a 3 or 4oz. bottle before nap and bedtime. It soothes her. I go in and retrieve it after shes asleep. I think your son is way to young to force him off the bottle. He is still very much a baby and after raising 3 grown children before Grace, I can tell you that taking the pressure off yourself and your child to perform according to charts and deadlines will make you both happier. Let him be comforted and nature will take its course. The more language he understands
the easier it will be to explain to him that he's a big boy etc.
Even though he's learning and growing by leaps and bounds he still has that need for comfort. I say, both of you enjoy every drop of baby in him until there is no more left. It happens all to soon. Hope this helps.

I was bad at putting my boys to bed with a bottle as well. When I was weaning them off the bottle I just switched the bedtime bottle to a sippie cup and then eventually took it away. I only put water mixed with a little juice in it so they wouldnt want it as bad. I hope it works. Good luck.

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Hey T.. I have a two year old that was still on the bottle and the doctors said to just give him a sippy cup instead. Well, I went to Walmart and bot a sippy cup that has a soft top and asked him if he wanted to buy some new bottles and he said yes. We purchased the "bottles" and when we got home we got rid of the old ones. When it was bed time and he wanted a bottle I gave him the new one. At first he was confused, he wanted the old ones and I reminded him that they were old and gone and these were our new ones. And now he takes them and he doesn't tend to drink it as much as the bottle, b/c it comes out faster. I hope this will help.

Hey there T.! Last week on that nanny show they had similiar problem!!!! I would do same thing they did. Get a no leak sippy cup. He may cry and it will take time, but as long as you don't give in he will catch on. I know it sounds hard. Also you really don't want to push him to fast, some say not to break him from bottle til after he is over one.

What I did with my daughter was when I offered her a bottle, I only put water in it. (Not her favorite to drink) She soon figured out that if that was the only thing that came out of the bottle, she wasn't really interested. Seriously, it only took about 3 days.

i would suggest putting something he doesnt like in the bottle and something he really likes in the cup. try water in the bottle. if that doesnt work just take it away. how my son got off is we stayed overnight at grandmas and i left his bottle at home by accident. well he fell asleep while i went to the store to pick up another one. and i havent given it to him since then and he was 11 months old also. but good luck. keep us posted.

I have the same problem with my 11 month old....good luck

Have you had any luck yet? I dont know if this will help you, but this is what worked with my two kids (who were on the night time bottle long past 11 months!) I finally started watering down the night time bottle. I first started with about a quarter of it (maybe less) of it being water. It had to be just enough to thin it out without it being outright tasteing bad (Because then they would throw the bottle away from them and fuss). Then a few days later I would put even more water into it. Eventually they learned that the bottle wasnt tasting as good anymore, so they'd drink some of it for that 'soothing' feeling that they wanted from the sucking on it, but eventually it was mostly water and they didnt want that soothing-ness of it for long, with them eventually not wanting the bottle at all. They both would already take their milk in a sippy cup during the day so the contrast of the not as good tasting bottle at night really helped out alot.

Oh, and to address any "teeth issues" you may be concerned about. My Daughter was not a pacifier user, but son was. He was for several years and the extended use of the bottle/pacifier did not affect his teeth one bit. He has very straight, nicely formed teeth on both the uppers and the lowers. He's 5 1/2 now and has never had a cavity either.