Night 2 of operation no bottle...SUCKS...

JARbaby

Esp when you have a 9.5m old sharing the room.

Yes my 2.5 year old still got a bedtime bottle for a million bad reasons from 10 months of pneumonia to the arrival of a baby at 18m to 6 weeks of screaming nights trying to wean at 16m.

Her pleads are crushing my soul. UGH. The baby is so good she is being chill through it all just watching her like, you Sister are acting the fool.

Just had to get that out.

marriedchick06

oh, no. I hope it gets better for you!

heatherfaith

sorry. :-( see my mom thought I was mean when I took it away right after he turned 1.  Its harder as they get older.

Rinnie

Thankfully I never had to deal with this.  My DD went right from BF to a sippy cup.

My cross to bear with my DD is her nuk/pacifier.  Prior to the boys being born she only used it during nap & bedtime.  Once we brought the boys home it became a 24 hour a day habit.

I let it go because I had to pick my battles and I was just so busy dealing with the boys.

We are week 4 of no pacifier during the day except nap & bedtime.  She is still asking and whinny and crying for it.

I feel your pain!

JARbaby

heatherfaith:

sorry. :-( see my mom thought I was mean when I took it away right after he turned 1.  Its harder as they get older.

At 1 she had pneumonia and we were at the doctors daily and she was dropping weight (already in the 8% for weight) so we were not allowed to stop it, but had to add things to it to keep her hydrated and give her calories. Plus it was her only comfort when I could not hold her.

roseroseroseroserose

JARbaby:

heatherfaith:

sorry. :-( see my mom thought I was mean when I took it away right after he turned 1.  Its harder as they get older.

At 1 she had pneumonia and we were at the doctors daily and she was dropping weight (already in the 8% for weight) so we were not allowed to stop it, but had to add things to it to keep her hydrated and give her calories. Plus it was her only comfort when I could not hold her.

How miserable.  I so would not have worried about taking away the bottle, either.  Sorry it's so hard. 

mislogis

my DD had a bottle at 2.5 too- dont worry about it. Our saving grace was moving her to her big girl bed and telling her big girls dont get bottles any more- try warm milk in a sippy cup if she wants it. DD wasnt to keen on that and stopped cold turkey.  It will get better- good luck!

MrsCorbin

We took DD's away a couple months ago.  She was 2 and a few months.  Before we took it away she was a huge bottle addict and had one or two at naptime and 2-4 during the night. 

The first thing we did (since both kid's were 14 months when a baby was born) was use different bottles.  DD1 used Ventaires, DS uses Avents and DD2 uses Gerber.  They know which kind is theirs and they don't like the others.

Before we took DD's away we started talking about big girls and babies.  When she got to do something special (stay up later, eat a dessert, etc) we would tell her it was because she was a big girl.  We said babies get babas not special things.  We threw away all of her bottles while she helped.  We woulod give her an ice cream cone before bed because she was a big girl.  It was very hard but she didn't cry as much as I expected.  She did suffer sleep regression because she used the bottles to relax.  She has completely stopped napping and she slept in our bed for a while.  She also became really attached to having certain items in her bed.  After a week she was completly over the bottle but didn't sleep well.  We got her a big girl bed and she loved it.  It is really hard but so worth it.