How did you drop the night time bottle?

melaniedel · September 2012

DS has been having only sippy's during the day (two include milk). He still has his nightimt bottle before bed though. We had a little sleep regression when we transitioned to whole milk which we think caused it. We tried the Ferber Method (it took one night of crying, next night two minutes, next 15 seconds, and not a peep since I'm sold!), and since we were having a problem with sleeping didn't want to rock that routine just yet. I'm thinking in a few weeks that I might start to try and get rid of the bottle. What did you do? Give a sippy before the actually bed time routine? Or decrease amount in bottle?

We are not BFing at all anymore.

TIA!

MeginUT · September 2012

We switched to giving a sippy before the bed time routine. I remember being very nervous about mixing up his bed time routine, but it was important that we brushed his teeth after he had his last milk and our pediatrician was on our case to get rid of the bottle completely. Before that, we were doing the night time routine and then I would give him a bottle of milk, as I had nursed him to sleep for 11 months. I just remember being so nervous that he wouldn't fall asleep, but he did just fine.

BabyBoyNYC · September 2012

we did it cold turkey and he didn't even notice, i was so worried it was going to be a nightmare but it was fine. I just made sure his dinner sippy of milk wasn't too far away from bedtime. I tried the decreasing thing and it just never mattered how much was in there he drank it.

tabaskoa · September 2012

We started giving him milk with dinner (sippy) and only offering a sippy with water right before bed. Didn't phase my DS at all.

catycate · September 2012

We still offer a sippy right before bed. I like a snack before bed, why not him? Also, my child sleeps 12 hours without budging and I will give him a sippy until high school if I can keep that.

2Dash · September 2012

We started to give him milk in a sippy at dinner - and that's it. He has his bath and we read to him and then bed. That said - he has a pacifier - so that probably helps.

Snow1010 · September 2012

We just dropped DD's night time bottle this weekend. I was super nervous because she went crazy when she saw that bottle at night! But, we just did our same routine and I gave her a sippy cup with milk instead. She didn't even notice and everything went very smooth! We'll probably continue with that sippy of milk right before bed for a long time...DD sleeps 12 hours a night and I don't want to mess that up!

SusieBW · September 2012

For now, we've gotten rid of bottles and switched to just sippys. We're on our last can of formula, and right now her morning and "bedtime" sippys are formula and milk mixed.

At night, DD used to have a bottle on her way into bed, after her bath and everything. We started by switching that bottle to before bath because we wanted her to brush her teeth before bed, and now we just keep giving her that sippy a little earlier. For the past few days, she's not even finishing it (probably because it's gotten pretty close to dinner time and she's still full from dinner), so once the formula is gone, we're probably just going to go with her milk at dinner and that's it.

melaniedel · September 2012

Thanks everyone!

Lotsofloveandkids · September 2012

We have to do this, we tried before doing cold turkey, didn't work out. Perhaps he was too young to drop the bottle, we'll try cold turkey again in a couple months. Only way DS1 dropped it.

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