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Breaking the bottle to sleep habit

carriesu2003carriesu2003 member
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My lo just hit a year and we got a bit of a lecture from the Pedi about abolishing the bottle.  Right now she gets 3 bottles a day right before her first nap, second nap and then bedtime.  We also offer milk in a cup at meal time, she drinks some milk during meal time but not much.  Overall she is surely getting more than 20oz of milk a day.  She is a chunk and the doctor told us to just quit feeding her to sleep cold turkey.  I'm worried that she is going to be hungry/thirsty and wake up in the middle of the night if I suddenly stop the milk before sleep association.  How have the rest of you dealt with this?  Am I being silly? 
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Re: Breaking the bottle to sleep habit

  • laurenhankeylaurenhankey member
    We started to give water before bed in a bottle and then less and less water. One night we tried nothing and she went to sleep. Hopefully that'll work for you too
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  • LSU628LSU628 member
    Night time by far was the hardest bottle to give up. I started giving DS his cup of milk with his dinner and purposely waiting till he was kind of tired. From there, I'd pop him out of his chair, clean him up or bath, PJs, paci and lovey, rock a little then off to bed. He did fight it for the first few night, but eventually he was just too tired to care.
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  • aibreanaibrean member
    We give a bottle after dinner (immediately after because she's still hungry...last night she had finger foods, 3oz of solids, and 10oz of formula in a sitting). Then a half hour to an hour later we take her to our bed and snuggle till she's sleepy and then she goes in her crib for the rest of the night.
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  • MommyAttyMommyAtty member
    The Baby Whisperer has some really good tips for this.
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  • Tjlong09Tjlong09 member
    I went could turkey when m son was 1. He wasn't on the sippy yet from some other issues w sickness and stuff but he'd still wake up every 3 hrs and drink 4 oz. He wasn't eating during the day bc he knew he could get it at night. So I started by giving him juice in a sippy cup during the day- no bottle. But I didn't give him milk cause I didn't want him to associate his milk w something he didn't like (the sippy) So giving him the juice enticed him to learn the sippy. At night I would give him water in a bottle, no milk (or formula). He hated water so he get mad and cry for a min, but I'd give him his paci and he'd roll over and go back to sleep. It only took 4 nights to get him off the bottle completely and sleeping through the night! :) (not 2 weeks like everyone said it would!) so cold turkey worked for us. And trust me, your LO will not starve. She will learn "oh I need to eat when mommy feeds me" rather than "I can eat later cause mommy will still feed me later" Trust me, these kids are smarted than we think! And they'll never let themselves go hungry. They are supposed to sleep thru the night, not eat all night. :)
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  • Tjlong09Tjlong09 member
    Also up the food calories during the day. Give her less formula and more solids (start by giving her the foods before formula). And make sure you use a sippy she comfortable w. There are all sorts of diff nipples even for sippies. My son didn't like handles (weird lol). He only liked the cups he could hold w both hands. He uses handles fine now but he didn't want them to start w.
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