S/O: Dropping night bottle

Kbrat

My DS is 10.5 mo and I was thinking about changing his night time routine so that the bottle is not the last thing before bed.  Eventually leading to dropping it all together.  This may be a new mommy, naive question, but how do you know that they are not hungry for it?  I always assumed it was necessary to get him through the night because he was a little hungry before bed....  Is that really a dumb question?

acppa

I started changing DS's night bottle around 10-11 months. ?I didn't really drop the night bottle I just kind of moved it up so that it wasn't right before bed. ?

Now I give DS a sippy cup with milk around 7pm every night. ?It's after dinner but still a good 30 minutes to an hour before he goes to bed. ?Eventually he'll have his milk with dinner. ??

CMM05

DS's "bedtime" bottle was never really the very last thing he took.....so I don't know if my answer will help. But....honestly, I just got rid of it. I was so worried about him not doing well, but all of my friends that have older kids said to just drop them and they will do fine. I noticed that a couple weeks before I was going to drop it he started eating less and less from it. One night (after we used up our last can of formula....), I just didn't give it to him....I thought he would be up at night hungry...nope! Totally fine I literally just "dropped" all the other bottles too, so maybe he was used to it??? Now we just do bath, pj's, book and to bed

GL!

jlw2505

The bottle (or sippy of milk for my older DD) has never been the last thing we do at bedtime.  As the babies get older, they are able to go longer without eating.  Our bedtime routine is after dinner we either play or on bath night, take baths (the girls bath together).  We then do PJ's and the baby gets her bottle and my 2 1/2 year old gets her sippy of milk.  We either then read some books and hang out or just head right into the bathroom to brush teeth (all depends on the timing of things).  After we brush teeth, we read another book or two and the girls do good nights (hugs, kisses, my 2 1/2 year old kisses the dog and says night night to some of her toys and turns out her own light).  Both girls are put into bed awake.