How and when did you drop the last bottle?

Mouseygail · September 2011

Beebee's post made me decide to ask Jones still gets a bottle before bed...and honestly, its all me...I'm not ready to give it up yet. I love our sweet, quiet, snuggle time. he's a beefy little kid, so he certainly doesn't need it...but I think we are both attached. Did you go cold turkey? shrink the size of the bottle? swtich to a sippy of milk?

Right now, my plan was hold off until after vacation and then think about it...so here I am..thinking about it. Last night I was wondering if I should start adding some things to his bedtime routine before taking away the bottle so that there is something to replace it with? Right now, we just do bath, pj's, bottle, bed..no rocking, no stories... He loves books now, so maybe he will be more tolerant to them now (for the longest time, he wouldn't sit still for a book...he just wanted his bottle and bed).

Are there any kids out there that just do bath, pjs, and bed this early?

stepgirl21 · September 2011

We stopped the bottle before bed right around 1 year. So yes, he does milk with dinner in a sippy and if he has left over milk, I'll put him in his crib with his sippy. If no leftover milk, no sippy. He does fine either way.

However, I still do a bottle first thing in the morning when he wakes up. And this is all me. He would do fine with a sippy but I love our cuddle time in the morning and I'm not ready for him to give it up. Embarrassed I am planning on ending it around 15 months.

beebe929 · September 2011

Our pedi said 18months was when she would push us to get rid of it. This was with #1, I EPd.

But she self weaned shortly after a year. She just stopped finishing them and was good to stop.

So we just read books/sang songs and she went to bed.

krissyh21 · September 2011

Dillon was pretty easy to switch cold turkey, he drinks his sippy almost the same way he drank a bottle at the time (we switched at 1 year). I still give him his sippy before bed and we still snuggle when he drinks it, so it is not like I am missing out on any snuggle time with the transition - the sippy just replaced the bottle. - and it is what settles him down at night, so until we are ready to do night time potty training I am still going to do the sippy.

epphd · September 2011

Sam still has a bottle before bed, and one before naps on weekends. He LOVES it and honestly, he's not yet 2 so I don't get too worked up over it. It's a great incentive for getting through bedtime. He wants it so much that it's how I get him out of the tub and into his jammies

I plan to work on dropping it before his second birthday. Cut out the naptime bottles on weekends (he doesn't have a bottle at daycare and naps fine) and slowly reduce the amount in the bottle at bedtime, and try subbing a sippie. I've started telling him that bottle is only for bedtime, so if he asks for it I ask whether he is ready for "night night." The nice thing is, when he's tired, he'll say yes.

I'll miss him saying "gottle? gottle?" though

(and off topic, but does anyone else's toddler substitute Gs for Bs? It's Sam's most dominant speech "error".)

Mouseygail · September 2011

beebe929:
Our pedi said 18months was when she would push us to get rid of it. This was with #1, I EPd.

But she self weaned shortly after a year. She just stopped finishing them and was good to stop.

So we just read books/sang songs and she went to bed.

This is what I'm hoping for...he has left an ounce or more the last couple of nights...I've been debating about making them 4 oz bottles and dropping it slowly (he gets roughly 5 ounces now...)

browneyedgrl4282 · September 2011

We did it cold turkey for all three.

chocolatechip06 · September 2011

E would not drink milk at all from a sippy (but with water he was fine) until I switched to the Nuk Active Cup. Once I started with those 2 weeks ago he immediately dropped the bottle. So he gets milk in his Nuk Cup throughout the day/evening and we use the take and toss or Playtex Straw Cups for water (he uses those interchangably).

I only wanted him to switch to a sippy since we are traveling later this year and the cup is easier to deal with (cleaning etc) than the bottle-also and this is huge-the cup does not leak, while the size 3 bottle nipples would (if the bottle was on it's side) so it's been a good transition all around.

mrsolsenk12 · September 2011

We switched cold turkey from a bottle to a sippy of milk at a yeat. We did, bath, pj's, story, with milk sippy during, brush teeth, bed. We stopped the milk sippy at 19 months.

AlissaCell701 · September 2011

It just happened for us! He still gets a sippy of milk before bed as part of our night time routine.. He watches sesame street and has a sippy.. if he isn't done we bring it up stairs for book time.. then brush teeth.. cuddles an bed.. I don't do sippy in the crib cause I heard that the sugar in milk rots there teeth.. would/will do water but no milk. J wad super attached to the bottle and it wad just getting out of Control and I just didn't want two kiddos on a bottle.. it was easier to switch then I thought it would be.

xtencornfield · September 2011

We switched from a bottle to a sippy for his bedtime milk around 13 mos or so. He still gets his sippy of milk before bed. We probably could have dropped that already too but I see no reason to. We both enjoy the cuddle time:)

smeyer · September 2011

The morning bottle was the last to go for us. Nonetheless, instead of a bottle before bed, we give them a small snack (if needed, depends on when they had dinner) and a small sippy of milk (maybe 3 oz or so). We sit on the couch, snuggle, and sip so it's very much like when they got a bottle. We eased back on the size of their night time bottle a bit then replaced it with the sippy. They didn't bat an eye. They were maybe 13 mo when the last bottle went buh-bye.

CandT · September 2011

You can still cuddle with a sippie cup! We dropped all but night time bottle cold turkey at one year. Then within a few months we dropped that too. She gets milk in sippie at night while we rock and read books or just rock and cuddle.

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