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February 2012 Moms
Hello!
Hi everyone! I hope this is not too weird that I am just joining, but I just found this group and would love to be a part of a group like this with other mommies that understand my son's stages and where I'm coming from (he was born on the 17 of Feb). I hope everyone's alright with that 
I do have a question for you all. I usually don't listen to everyone else's "advice" around me, but I am curious about this one thing. My son still takes his bottle before bed time with milk in it. He drinks a sippy throughout the day (ok, and occasionally wants his bottle for nap time, but not too often) but at night he refuses to lay down without having a bottle first. I feed it to him, then lay him down when he is done and he goes right to sleep. He does not sleep with it. A lot of my family thinks it's appalling that he still takes his bottle =/ And I know the official recommendation and research says children should be off the bottle by 12 mos, but he's not having it! Plus, he JUST started sleeping throughout the night about a month or two ago, so I'd hate to do something to reverse that.
My question for you ladies is do any of your LOs still take a bottle? And if they don't, how did you wean from it?
Thanks so much for reading!
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Welcome! There is always room for one more.
My daughter was cut from the bottle cold turkey around 12 months. She didn't mind too much, she had pretty much self weaned to one bottle a day (morning). I do know a lot of ped's say 12-15 months, but there are a lot of mom's who aren't worried about it until 18 months.
The only thing my ped told me was NOT to put milk in a bottle...it makes the transition easier if they do milk from a sippy right away. That way you aren't doing two transitions - one from BM/formula to milk and then from a bottle to a sippy.
You have to find what works best for you...maybe try less milk in the bottle every few days until it is done.
Good luck!
Welcome!
We did cold turkey as well. He never missed it.
Welcome to our group!!!
My ped said she likes all of her babies to be completely off the bottle by 15mo. I went ahead at 12mo and took him off. I did it cold turkey. I offered a sippy instead of his bottle for his bedtime bottle. He was pissed! He took the cup and slung it across the room. He was not happy that I gave it to him, even though he was used to getting sippies during the day. But for bed, he just wasn't having it. He went to sleep that night without it and had no problem sleeping through the night. The next morning I gave him a sippy of milk. Again, he was used to getting a bottle in the morning. He wasn't too thrilled about it, but he did take the cup. The next 3 or 4 nights were a little rough, I offered the cup, he threw it. So, I stopped offering it. I changed his bedtime routine a little bit. After 4 nights, the issue was over and he was perfectly fine. He's not had a bottle since then and for us it wasn't a HUGE deal, he was pissed but he was ok.
I say work on one thing at a time. If you're working on changing other things in his routine then I'd not add this to it. And if you're still giving him a bottle during the day, I'd maybe work on cutting that out completely. Then work on the bedtime bottle. If you're not working on anything else, I suggest changing your bed time routine a little bit so that it doesn't include a bottle. I don't think it's appalling that you give him a bottle, just for the record! However, I don't think a 2 year old really needs a bottle...just saying. It may be a rough couple of nights but I'd bet he'd be ok after a few days. I don't think it would mess with him sttn, but getting to sleep is probably what will be the tough part. Good luck!
It's not abnormal he takes a bottle still.
But he really should be off them especially if he takes the sippy so well. And I hate to say it but I think you're going to have to work on cutting that before bed bottle. With us we didn't have an issue with the nighttime bottle he just never had one. Once he started eatting solids we offered the milk with dinner. But we had a morning bottle and what I did was just delay giving it to him first thing in the morning. And then I just gave him the sippy he was upset but he was thirsty so he took it.
You probably have to just prepare yourself to do it. Then put all the bottles away, and cold turkey. Sippies only. But when you think your both ready. Good luck! It's actually not as hard as it seems.
Welcome!
Jackson is not on a bottle (and really wasn't too much since we EBF). But we just had our 15 month appt and our ped asked if we gave a bottle before bedtime. I said no and she said good and that was that. I can't remember what book I read, but it said something about bottles before bed can lead to tooth decay.