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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
bedtime bottle vs. bedtime sippy
All these posts about the nightime bottle have me thinking. We dropped bottles a few months ago, but DD still gets a sippy around 6:30pm right before we bring her up to bed at 6:45. Obviously we're going to need to stop this sooner or later, but how and when?
Do you just give more in the evening before dinner? How do you make sure the milk doesn't spoil your LO's appetite?
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Re: bedtime bottle vs. bedtime sippy
DD gets milk with dinner. I offer a sippy of water closer to bedtime.
Why do you need to stop it? I guess at somepoint with potty training, too much liquids right before bed could be a problem. But right now, I think its fine. I want to make sure she isn't thirsty.
I have always kept a glass of water on my nightstand because I get thirsty around bedtime...don't see the harm in offering water before bed. If you're worried about milk because of teeth, I would just brush right before bed, or start offering water. We generally do milk during meals and water at other times.
this exactly
I think DD is slowly weaning herself off it now, she only drinks a couple ounces. I could care less if she drinks a cup of milk before bed at 5, I like to either have a cup of milk or a small snack about an hour before I go to bed!
This is what I was worried about too, she used to get it RIGHT before bed as part if her routine, but now we moved it an hour before bath/bed for when we PT in a few months. I also plan to (if she doesn't on her own) wake her right before we go to bed to potty, which will be about 3 hours after she goes to bed.
Potty training was the main reason I was worried we need to stop the sippy before bed. All the bottle posts made me wonder if I was just creating a habit that I was going to have to break soon. Even if DD isn't thirsty, I think the ritual of having milk before bed has become part of her bedtime routine.
We always brush teeth after the bottle, so that's not an issue, I just don't want her to NEED the sippy to go to bed.
Amynjay- how did you move the sippy up? We have dinner from 5:30-6ish, play for a bit (play time is cut short every other night for baths), have a sippy at 6:30, followed by 3 stories, bush our teeth, walk upstairs and go to bed.
I was actually a tad worried about it, but she did ok. It used to be bath, dress, milk while reading, brush, bed. So it was literally RIGHT before bed. One day we just tried it, though we didn't just give it to her, we kind of adjusted our routine. We get the milk ready, close all the blinds, lay on the bed or couch (all 3 of us) & watch TV while she drinks it. Then straight to the bath, then brush/read, prayer, bed. Now she's pretty much used to it, so we just give it to her & still let her do what she wants, then get in the bath. But she's only drinking a couple ounces now, not a whole sippy, one reason we just keep letting her play now.