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Ditching the Evening Bottle

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We successfully dropped DD's breakfast bottle this week. She's all solids in the morning - hooray! DH and I were talking last night about how hard it is going to be to lose that pre-bed bottle. She's a good little eater and sleeps through the night. We suspect this is going to throw her into a tail spin.

How did you get rid of the evening bottle? Would it work to decrease it by an ounce every few days? Any advice?

The current night time schedule is below, if that helps.

5:30 - Home from work/daycare. Playtime, trip to the park, read a book, etc.

6:15/6:30ish - Dinner with solid food and a practice sippy cup of water

6:45 - Bathtime. It should be mentioned that DD hates her bath, doesn't find it relaxing. It works her up, rather than soothing her.

7:00/7:15ish - 6oz bottle, followed immediately by bed. She sometimes talks to herself a little and then falls right asleep.

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  • cantalopes24cantalopes24 member
    Could you try bathing her before dinner so she doesn't get worked up? I would gradually decrease the amount of the night time bottle but I wouldn't stress ditching it immediately. Could you give milk at dinner instead of water?
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    We got rid of the bedtime bottle first. She is still pretty full from dinner, so she didn't even seem to notice. I started decreasing the amount of formula to water in the bottle. It was a 4 ounce bottle so I did 1 1/2 scoops in 4 oz one week. The next week I went to 1 scoop, etc. now she gets a bottle of water which she usually just takes a sip or two of. I think it was easy because we haven't changed the routine at all. Good luck, hopefully it will be easy!

    For reference our routine is very similar:

    5:30/5:45 home from daycare

    6:00/6:15 dinner-solids and sippy of water (or milk if she has some left over from lunch)

    6:45 bath (which lasts 2 min to 15 min depending on her mood)

    7-7:30pm books, bottle, bed

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  • FianschneidFianschneid member
    We've tried milk in the sippy cup but she still hasn't mastered it, so it becomes a toy after two drinks. We're just doing the water at this point so that she gets the idea of how the sippy works. Hmm. Maybe we should work on that, too.
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  • babes12babes12 member

    imageFianschneid:
    We've tried milk in the sippy cup but she still hasn't mastered it, so it becomes a toy after two drinks. We're just doing the water at this point so that she gets the idea of how the sippy works. Hmm. Maybe we should work on that, too.

    I was going to suggest milk for bedtime but see you've tried that.  Can you try a straw sippy cup?  maybe she'd take to that better? Also i warm the milk a bit too.

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    Thanks, everybody. Maybe we'll try a combo. We can do milk at dinner with the straw sippy and start mixing the evening bottle with more milk. I love it!
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