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anyone's LO still on a bottle?

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DD is 14 mos and still takes a bedtime bottle.  DH gives it to her; this is his FAVORITE thing and he wants to continue for a bit more.  maybe another month or so.  i don't want her to become even MORE attached than she already is, but i don't want to take away this bonding time w/ DH either.  is 15 mos just too old to still be on a bottle?
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  • chrisnj0614chrisnj0614

    colin doesn't take a bottle, but our friends kids too.  One friend eliminated it at 2 years and another is almost 2 and still takes bottles.

    Can you switch it to a sippy cup of milk instead?  You can do a new tradition, sippy cup of milk, then teeth brushing, then bed.

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  • MegGaryMegGary member
    I'm sure some would say yes. I'll say no because DD still takes a bottle & she's 17month today. I wouldn't but she just got the hang of a sippy cup like a week ago. Plus it's soothing for her to have the bottle so I see nothing wrong with it. Whatever works for you though.
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  • Osco13Osco13

    This is my situation exactly.We only have a bedtime bottle.

    I think that DH is more attached to the "bedtime bottle" than DS in some ways!

    But DS is getting to where he ASKS for the bottle. In fact he removes his own binky, puts it in my DH's hand and says "Bada". 

    I was thinking of getting rid of it during the holiday break so we can fill his life with lots of fun!

    But DH is pouting. Stick out tongue

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  • Lucky_DragonflyLucky_Dragonfly member
    we are still on bottles. but our daycare told us that when DS moves over to the toddler room that they don;t give bottle anymore so we are trying to nix it in the next 3 weeks. So far he doesn't drink milk cold so he has bee nrefusing his bottle at daycare anyway. So all he really gets is a moring and a night bottle. I think we should nix the AM bottle and then work towards the pm bottle. if we go cold turkey then he will be drinking next to nothing all day.
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  • 6fsn6fsn
    My doc said the bottle should go by 15 months.  DS is 14 and still on it.  He's got some major upheavals coming so we'll go cold turkey after Dec. 10.
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  • nicoleRInicoleRI
    My DS is 14 months also and does bottle am and pm only- sippy during the day but he hardly drinks any of that milk.  Until 15 months we will still do the two bottles so he gets some milk.  At 15 month apt I will talk to pedi about what to do when he refuses milk altogether- which I am pretty sure he will do.
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  • ascbrideascbride
    My Pedi says by 18 months, DD loves her bottle though, I don't know how we are going to get rid of them... It was easier to get her off the boob.
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  • flyingsaucerflyingsaucer member

    My almost 20 month old still gets one bottle at night.  He loves it and I have no problem with it.  He brushes his teeth when he is done.  I think we are far to obsessed with rushing kids in this country.  He is still just a baby and it brings him comfort. 

    He drinks fine out of his sippy all day.

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  • lexigrllexigrl
    DS will be 17 months in a couple weeks and he still gets 3 bottles a day, he has had a really hard time with teething and I don't want to rush him off the bottle so we may start transitioning once all his molars are in but as far as I am concerned as long as he is off of it by the time he is 2 I am not concerned.  He takes a sippy with water and juice just fine but refuses milk in it right now.
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  • mabst196mabst196 member

    DD was still getting her one AM bottle until today actually. She drank her milk this morning in a new straw cup I just got, so this may the first day of her life without a bottle. She is over 15 months old.

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  • caymanbridecaymanbride
    We still do a nap and a bedtime bottle, and don't plan on stopping anytime too soon. DS is 16 months. I don't see the harm if it's part of the sleep routine. Kids are ready for things on their own time table. I really don't get the whole 1 yr. thing. 
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  • skoorbniborskoorbnibor member
    yes, 1 morning bottle and I am fine with it and see NO reason to freak out about it.
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  • PrincessBearPrincessBear
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    My almost 20 month old still gets one bottle at night.  He loves it and I have no problem with it.  He brushes his teeth when he is done.  I think we are far to obsessed with rushing kids in this country.  He is still just a baby and it brings him comfort. 

    He drinks fine out of his sippy all day.

     

    This except DD is 18 months.  I told DH that the bottle fairy will come before her 2nd birthday when she can understand a little more why.  She also gets water from a bottle sometimes in the middle of the night.  She's using it for comfort and I get that, but that's OK with me. 

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  • rayaraya
    DS still gets 3 bottles/day, and with formula in it, so there! We've tried the sippy with formula, milk, juice...he will only drink water from it. We've tried sippy with all that before meals, after meals, with meals...I'm done fighting it. We'll revisit it at his 15 month appointment, but for now, it's more important to me that he gets his nutrition, not how he gets it.
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