Is this mean?

MrsCorbin

We need to wean DD from the bottle.  She still drinks them at naptime and nighttime.  If you tell her she can't have one she screams for hours.  I have not had the energy to stick with taking it away.  What if I put something in it to make it taste bad.  I was thinking of putting a little bit of bitters in the bottle.  I will tell her that I don't know why the bottle tastes bad but that she can drink out of her sippy.  Has anyone tried this? 

august0605bride

My DS still takes a night time bottle. ?I'm cool with it. (he also prefers to drink from a bottle in the morning, but he's okay with a cup from lunch-dinner).

How about just offering water in a bottle and milk in a sippy??

UBMyBaby

I would just offer a sippy instead and let her work through it.  Even if you were to put something ill-tasting in a bottle (which I wouldn't), she'll just want a different bottle and cry for one anyway.  So I'd stick to the sippy, let her cry a bit, and she'll catch on.

Whenever I have had to wean DD of something, I didn't do it suddenly one day.  I decided on a deadline and then I would talk about it...as in, "Tomorrow we will be using a sippy like a big girl!"  And I'd tell her that over and over to prep her.  Seems to help a little with transitions.

Good luck.

elm1032004

DD wanted a bottle for a little while after DS was born, so I gave her one with a little formula in it.  She got over her want of a bottle pretty quickly.  I told her that is what comes in a bottle.