Help Getting Away from Bottle

Let her keep her bottle- she is still a baby! If she is laying down and falling asleep fine then why change it. Eventually they stop needing to nurse or take a bottle at night- She won't be doing it when she is 5 so enjoy giving it to her and don't listen to peer pressure or the dr.. I have 2 girls ages 4 and 5 and I never made it an issue and so it never became an issue.

One last thing, the nuby sippy cup is much like a bottle and if it really bothers you- try switching to that for only milk and keep your other sippy's for water and juice.

We had the same issue. We tried offering only a sippy cup, and my 2-year-old got so thirsty it was not healthy. So, we stopped trying. Keep in mind he was over 2 by this point.
Then one day, he bit the nipple half-way off the bottle. He'd been biting nipples for some time. I looked at it and said "Baba broke." He examined the nipple and repeated what I said, alarmed but understanding. That was it! If he asked for it, I reminded him that "baba broke." I saved that precious broken nipple. It was the beginning of a new stage for him. To this day (he is over 3), he still tells us the baba broke if we ask about it. It must have been traumatic!

Cold turkey!! It is the only way to go! My daughter REALLY fought it and it was very hard but after weeks - yes, it took weeks - she was on sippy cups. She resisted and resisted but eventually they will drink if you simply removed bottles from their lives. Put the bottles away! Hard, I know. Good luck :)

You should definitely go ahead and try to wean her off it. It really will damage her teeth by taking the milk and not brushing her teeth afterwards. Bad teeth run in my daughters family on both sides so I wanted to do whatever I could to keep her teeth healthy as soon as possible. We weaned my 18 month old daughter at 15 months. She was not taking one at nap time by then though, only at night time. Since your mom isn't the letting her cry type maybe you should just try to take her off the bottle at night first and make sure to tell your mom to brush her teeth when she wakes up from her afternnon nap. I had never let my daughter cry before either. I read all the books and thought there has got to be another way to do this. It really has been the only thing that we've tried that has worked though. I dreaded so badly taking her off the bottle because I knew she would never sleep well without it. I was wrong. We give her as much milk as she wants shortly before bedtime out of a sippy and a small snack if she wants, like crackers. Then brush her teeth. Yes, the first night she cried for a while, about 30-40 minutes, but the next night there where no problems what so ever. Keep the rest of her night time routine the same and she should forget about the bottle in no time. If she gets used to not having one at night then it should be alot easier to get her off it at nap time or vice versa. If you have any other questions about our experience please let me know. I hope this helps!

I am having the EXACT same problem with my twins. Everything is fine in the sippy cup except milk! I thought I was the only one with this problem and my pediatrition says the same thing. One of my girls will not eat anything else except stage 3 babyfood sqaush and green beans. The Dr. says stop the milk and she will eat after about a week. A WEEK !! Are you kidding me!!! I hope there are lots of responses that help and I am so glad I am not the only one dealing with this!

Beth

We went cold turkey at 13 months. What we found that helped was finding the right sippy cup. The ones that had the hard plastic weren't well received. The ones with the more silicone/soft plastic spout seemed to be the fav. We didn't get a cup that had a sprout shaped like a nipple though. We didn't have any regression issues. The one we used was called nubby. We tried a couple of different ones as well.

good luck