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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
When did you drop the bed time bottle?
DD is approaching 15 months, and with another one on the way, I want to drop her bed time bottle asap. I know it might take a while and I'm hoping to wean her off a bed bottle by 17 months....
She does GREAT with her sippy with milk during the day and I got her similar "cup" (playtex brand, which is the same as her sippy with same spout no handles) that will hold the 9oz of milk for bed time. I thought I'd start by offering her the milk in the new cup a little after her dinner while she's still downstairs to see if she'll drink it on her own.
When did you wean off the bed time bottle and how did you do it?
TIA!!!!!!!
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Re: When did you drop the bed time bottle?
I was "lucky" in the fact that my DD refused a bottle starting around 7 months. I BF her. So she quickly had to learn to use a sippy cup when I wasn't around. I stopped nursing at 1year, her night time nursing session was the last one that I stopped. I just stopped it, and started offering the sippy cup while I rocked her to sleep. This was after she was comfortable using the sippy cup.
I have heard that others just slowly lower the amount that is in the bottle each night, while offering the sippy cup as well (maybe prior to starting the bed time ritual). Then as the amount dropps, hopefully, she will realize that she needs to drink more from the sippy cup.
I'm more of a "cold turkey" kind of parent with my DD. Only because I know she can handle it, doesn't make a fuss, and adapts.
GL!!
Thanks--I think you're right, cold turkey might be the best bet.
I dropped it last night, so shortly after 15 months. I had tried previously just making a straight switch to the cup but that resulted in screaming from about 7:30-10:30 then LO stayed up until about midnight. And that continued for several nights and I caved.
So after that failure I decided to try what I read another mom on here do and I 'broke' the bottle. LO could see the milk in it but I had put the little cap in under the nipple and the milk couldn't flow. LO tried for all of 30 seconds before she threw the bottle away and took the sippy cup, no complaints. Tonight, she just took the cup and skipped the bottle all together.