Need help weaning the bottle.

DLD102

I know I might get flamed for this, but any help would be appreciated. 

My daughter just turned two and asks for a bottle every night before she goes to bed.  This is the only way she will drink milk. 

We have tried giving her the milk in the Born-Free sippy cups (similar to the sicking mechanism of a bottle), but she gives it back to us and wants a bottle.  We realize she's two and should not be having a bottle anymore, but it's hard to break the cycle.

Any advice you ladies have would be helpful. TIA!

lildevil968

Have you tried the Nubby cups? They have nipples that are tougher than a bottle, but they shaped like sippy cups. When DD was nearly a year we had to wean her, and those where the greatest thing.

Mrs.Tony

I am going to second the Nuby cups. We switched to the bottle and then eventually the sippy cup. The top is still like a nipple so my DD took to it and eventually we got her off those completely. Mine was on the bottle for a long while.

DLD102

Thanks, ladies!  I'll try those.

DLD102

lissasue3:

Hey you!

If it was me, I'd get her off the bottle cold-turkey.  Just like switching to the big girl bed, it's probably only a few days of insanity. LL has been off the bottle since 14 months and we did it gradually but she also didn't really complain so it was easy. 

For a while LL would only take juice from the sippy but she slowly warmed up to milk in the sippy.  Just cut her off and I think she'll slowly come around. 

Hey!  Thanks!  I appreciate it!