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Parenting after 35
JenniferTCU
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I would pay $50 for a bottle-type sippy cup.
JenniferTCU
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Hi lovelies!
I am embarrassed to admit this but my sweet little boy is STILL on the bottle. He gets 16 oz of milk every night pre-bedtime. For three nights, we ditched the bottle. We had a very grumpy, very irritable little boy on our hands. It was horrible. For my own self-preservation, I decided to give the kid a bottle again. Things have been blissful since then. But, I am having anxiety over my almost-two year old needing a bottle to sleep.
Any ideas? I think I've tried every sippy on the market.
PS. Weight is not an issue (for the milk consumption), he is a horrible eater and needs the calories.
PSS. I miss you all so much!
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Re: I would pay $50 for a bottle-type sippy cup.
My daughter was around 16 months when I weaned her. First of all, I did it according to the Farmer's Almanac, which might sound superstitious, but it wasn't too bad, I think it did help.
Next, I took her regular bottle, and changed the nipple to more of a sippy cup nipple. I think ours was Nuk, but they have similar ones for the Avent bottles too. I did this for a couple of weeks, and she wasn't thrilled with the idea, but she liked the feeling of the bottle in her hands, so she would take it on and off. Finally I ended up filling her bottle with water, and everytime she wanted the bottle with the old, regular nipple, she'd get only water. When she wanted the milk, she had to drink out of the sippy nipple. That seemed to work after a couple of days, and now she's just on the sippy cups.
I appreciate you understanding that. lol I keep telling myself the same thing but then wondering if I am just trying to justify being a lazy parent lol. We are going on 80 days with my dad in the hospital and close on both houses on Wednesday. We are definitely not short on things to do
Have you tried not giving him anything to drink (not even a sippy) before bed? That helped us break off the bottle addiction. Out of sight, out of mind.
The only kind C will use is a straw type. The cheap Take 'N Toss ones.. not even the fancier ones.
We have enough to feel guilty about. No need to add to it.
And no one can call you lazy until they have been in your shoes. Fingers crossed that he gives it up on his own.
Because he's such a poor eater, he craves nutrition before bed. And, I am sure he loves the comfort of the bottle. This is going to wreak havok on us when we try to potty train if I don't do as you suggested in the near future.
No advice, just glad to hear from you!
Have you tried a sports bottle? I wonder if that might do the trick.
ETA: FYI, worst case scenario, he gives it up in a while. Don't sweat it. He's not going to college with it. There's a reason I didn't push the binky issue with DD who used it at night until a few months ago. It was fine then.
DD -- 5YO
DS -- 3YO
Jenn at least you are not as bottle crazy as this woman is.
https://community.thebump.com/cs/ks/forums/55601668/ShowThread.aspx#55601668
I wouldn't worry to much about it! My DD (who is now 4) had a nightly bottle till she was 2. One day I had had enough and her and I gave all her bottles away to the 'bottle fairy' to give to another little baby who needed them. She never drank milk out a sippy after that (and never has had milk since--says she doesn't like the taste). So--the moral of the story is, I worried about taking the bottle away, waited till two and it wasn't any tougher, she doesn't have any teeth issues, and once we stopped the bottle, she never drank milk again...so maybe it was a good thing I stuck with the bottle so long.
Now with my DS, on the other hand, I got him to drink out of sippy at around 15 months but it is a soft spout sippy and in all reality is really no different from a bottle. He still latches on it likes a bottle and drinks it the same way. I 'feel' better because we can say it is a sippy not a bottle, but really it is the same thing and I will have one day decide to take it away too.
It will all work itself out eventually.
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This. Hi honey.
Here's my advice. Don't worry. He will stop taking the bottle soon. And dont even worry about the potty training. He probably wont potty train soon, not for 1-2 years.
I have an almost 2 and an almost 4 year old boy. The older took a bottle for a long time and I tried everything in my power to get him off it. Finally I took it away because the doctor told me he had to be off it, and the poor boy began to look emaciated and skinny because he refused to use a sippy! My mother told me not to listen to the doctor, listen to my mothers instinct and let my child use a bottle. So I gave it back to him, and 6 months later he basically weaned himself.
Same for potty training by the way! Tried for 2 years to push potty training, now he's basically doing it himself.
With the 2nd boy, I'm letting him lead the way. He still uses a bottle too at night. But it won't be for much longer, he eats a lot. Try not to stress yourself out about this. Others are doing the same thing. Forget some of the "rules".
Did you try this one? My DS loved it.The spout is very similar to a bottle nipple. It was really hard to break him of it so I'm not sure it's any better then letting him have the bottle and only break him of it once.
https://nuby.com/en/nuby/cups-spouts/889I have an almost-3 year old who is drinking milk or water from a "sports bottle".
He can drink just fine with a regular cup and doesn't mind that too much. But, he still gets milk and water in a "sports bottle" from his mom or grandparents. (I give him a regular glass or cup and he has no problem with it at all.)
He is developing an increasing overbite and teeth crowding, sucks his thumb, chews on the sports bottle tip, and holds it with his teeth.
My question for this group is this:
Where can I find a "sports bottle" type of bottle that does not have anything that touches the teeth? I want something that doesn't have any "sippy cup" or "sports bottle" type tip on it.
It needs to be something that he will want more than a sports bottle so he will want it more than a sports bottle.
When I read about bottle, sippy cup, or sports bottle problems, I usually hear about fears of tooth decay. In our case, I don't think that this is as much of a problem as tooth crowding, chipping, or contribution to an overbite. He only gets the sports bottle one or two times a day and doesn't sip on it all day. But I feel that it is too much for a fairly mature child who is almost three years old and doesn't have any problem using a regular cup. He just prefers the sports bottle.
Please help with suggestions. Yes, I know the obvious solution is to stop giving him sports bottles, but that won't work in this household.