Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months

Do you give your LO a sippy in the crib?

We are trying to break the night bottle right now. Is this a bad idea? I can see it being one down the road.

So....yay? or nay? If he wakes up and wants the bottle, should I give him a sippy of water/milk and let him have it in the crib?

I feel like this has been the biggest debate of the entire day. LOL

Re: Do you give your LO a sippy in the crib?

  • we never had to go through that stage, so i have no words of wisdom, just good luck!!
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  • We don't put a sippy in the crib.  DS nurses before bed and then is out for the night.
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  • We do, with water only. K chugs through a full sippy a night. Our house is super dry, so it doesn't surprise me.

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  • Yes, and it actually worked. Some mornings her sippy will be empty, and some mornings it will be half-full of water but that was what finally got her to STTN. I'd say it's worth a shot.

    ETA: We just put it in her crib when she goes down for the night.

  • I have put a sippy of water (not milk) in the crib before. He will wake up and take a drink and go back to bed. DS doesn't take milk from a sippy real good yet. I still nurse him.
  • We did with DD and was VERY hard to break, so we never started giving DS anything in his crib.
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  • I've kept a sippy of water within DD's reach pretty much since she weaned from night feedings. I would rest it on the crib rail (ours is wide enough to do that) instead of putting it in the crib. 

    She wakes up very thirsty in the night. We live at a fairly high altitude and I keep a glass of water on my nightstand b/c I wake up thirsty, too. :)  

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  • Sometimes a sippy of water, but never milk per our pedi.
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  • I would avoid the milk for sure.  Our pedi told us some water during the night was fine as a way to transition off his middle of the night feeding.  We ended just cutting it all out cold turkey and he did fine after 2 nights.

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  • We dealt with that too!

     I finally got rid of the bottle a couple weeks ago.  I would try water and see if that works.

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  • Sometimes I do, but only water. It's not good for the milk to sit on their teeth all night long. 
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    Yes, and it actually worked. Some mornings her sippy will be empty, and some mornings it will be half-full of water.

    ETA: We just put it in her crib when she goes down for the night.

    This. We figure it will have to break this habit when we night time potty train, but we'll worry about that later...

  • Blondie - if this works for you, we might try it. The only reason we havent tried it is because I can see Brock playing with it and then never going to sleep, or throwing it out of his crib and then still waking up bc he can't get it since he threw it out earlier. Let me know how it goes!!
  • No bottles, no sippys, no liquid in the crib.
  • We leave a sippy of water in the crib for DD each night.  It's rare that she drinks from it, but it's there in case she wants it.
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  • Should you break him from the bottle now?  IMO, yes.

    Should you give a sippy of water/milk in the crib?  IMO, no. 

  • When I put Ian to bed I hand him a sippy of water.  I don't do milk b/c I'm afraid it will rot his teeth; he gets his last milk at dinner.
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  • I'm torn.  Because on one hand I don't want to start that but on the other hand I know I wake up very thirsty and drink an entire bottle of water over night.  That being said, I'm the last person who should be weighing in here.  DS is still on a bottle at bedtime and over night.  Due to his diet restrictions, he isn't getting enough calories during the day so he needs both of those feedings again.
  • I have never done it, but I wouldn't be opposed to it.  
  • No I don't and I wouldn't.
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  • Joseph takes his straw sippy to bed. He doesn't have anything like milk or juice that will sit on his teeth, and in general, he just likes to have it nearby. We also take it and refill it with more water and put it back after he's asleep so that he can have a drink if he wakes up. If he wakes up enough to cry for us to get it for him, he doesn't go back to sleep. If he just reaches out, gets it and has a drink, he'll drop it and passout again.

     

  • J gets a milk sippy about 30 mins before bed, then we brush his teeth and he gets a bottle with water when he lays down for the night. We will soon transition the water bottle to a water sippy...just haven't done it yet. He wakes up in the night and drinks from it and then falls back to sleep. I have to have water in the night too!
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