Trouble when LO#1 sees #2s bottle

court1703

Long story short I pulled out a bottle this afternoon to make sure DD#2 wouldn't have any problems taking one tonight when I was gone. Fed her a little bit. She did fine. Set it down for a second, and DD#1 saw it. She took it and was going to try to drink it. So I took it away and offered her her cup. Of course a melt down followed. And she refused her cup for about 15 minutes. I was afraid that when she saw them she would want them. I was hoping that she forgot about them though. She has not had a bottle since she was 14 months.

Any advice? 

celiabwatson

We didn't have that problem with the bottle but we did with the stroller. We chose not to get a double since our son has been walking all the time for a good 6 months now. We put our daughter in the stroller and he melted down and wanted to climb in. I reminded him that he's a big boy and strollers are for babies and it worked. We also distracted him by asking about something we were going to see on our walk.

Bottle specific: We have given a bottle and my son has even seen me pumping and we just say that it's special milk for the baby and he's a big boy and can use a cup. Of course we're tandem nursing so he does get breastmilk so that might make it easier.

I wonder if you could try offering juice or something super appealing in a cup when the little one is getting a bottle? 

The Housewife

We went through the same thing.

We just let DS drink out of a bottle too. He had more restrictions (only at home, only milk, etc). I figured his world was turned upside down enough and this wasn't worth the battle. I really wanted to stay away from saying things like "that's for babies, your not baby", and really a bottle every now and then wasn't going to make all his teeth fall out and set him up for a life of braces and head gear.

 We did offer him more "grown up" drinks like flavored water or letting him put the mio drops in so he could have a "red drink". It was also the end of sippy cups, because I would offer them in regular cups so he could be like mommy and daddy.

It was short lived, just like when he wanted to play with the swing, bouncer, be rocked to sleep, and everything else we did for DD.