Advice on getting rid of bedtime bottle?
docmay25
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Okay, Don't judge me. My almost 15 month old still has a bedtime bottle. I hold him in my lap, he drinks the bottle and then goes to bed great after that. I know that he should be off the bottle before bed. My older children never had a bedtime bottle passed the age of one. I don't know what my problem is this time. I think part is that he was a difficult sleeper for so long and now is great that I don't want to rock the boat. Part is that he is my last baby and I don't want to be done with that snuggle time?
But I need to suck it up and do it. So, what is your advice for getting rid of it? My older children were great at bedtime book reading being the "signal" that it was time to wind down for bed. This baby isn't into sitting for a book yet, I tried. Any other suggestions of how to get rid of bottle?
Re: Advice on getting rid of bedtime bottle?
It's ok, my 21 month old still has a bedtime/naptime bottle. I know I need to break him of it soon.
It's tough when the ILs take care of him while DH and I are at work and they're of the old school mentality of it being cruel to take it away from
We're trying to get rid of it right now - she used to drink about 6 oz every night at bed, and then this week I'm cutting it back to 4... so far so good. We're also switching her to WCM, so the hope is that in a few days we'll cut down to 2-3 oz of bre
We have tried several times to break it, including cold turkey. But when she stopped peeing
It was also the last one we dropped between 14 and 15 months. Like another poster, we weaned. I started putting a little less milk in the bottle and then I started giving it a little earlier. Finally, we switched to a sippy cup (she'd already been drin
no judging! My niece is going to be 3 in August and still has a bottle. And not just night time, it's for everything. Her dad is an orthodontist too, and he's not concerned... and I believe that is the biggest issue with bottles....
Anyways, my