My 18 month old daughter,Devon,is being extremely difficult to break of the bottle.She has never drank FULL bottles,only 4 ounces at a time,so she basically has one throughout the day.She started getting her teeth at around 10 months and has 12 at the moment(this includes 4 molars),now I'm faced with having to have 1 tooth possibly removed and 3to4 capped(depending on if they have to remove the 1)due to bottle rot!I feel like such a failure,having my baby girl go through this,but I'm about at wits end!She's adamant about getting her bottle,she can drink from a cup,but SCREAMS constantly and sometimes downright refuses to drink ANYTHING unless it's her bottle!!!Basically she will go all day and not drink a thing til naptime,bedtime,or in desperate situations,I cave-in and she gets a bottle.She wont take a binkie and I'm at a constant battle with my husband and in-laws because they think I'm taking drastic measures by taking the bottle away to early/quickly any suggestions before the rest of her teeth go????!!!!This is my third child and only girl,but I swear I didnt have nearly the 'probs' with my boys,whom by the way have excellent teeth.
My advice. I went thru 5 boys with this...not a girl though...THROW AWAY ALL BOTTLES SO SHE CANT SEE THEM ANYMORE...give her the sippy cup ...she will drink when she gets thirsty enough. until then....buy ear plugs...if you are worried she isn't getting enough to drink...buy some sugarfree popsicles to give her the liquids...
S.
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try giving her a small cup put some crushed ice in it witha straw the ice is kind of a treat for when she finishes her drink my son is 2 and 4mnths and the last week of dec we got rid of the bottle by telling him santa needed them fror the other boys and girls you could try that with the easter bunny
My daughter, now almost 18, sucked her bottle til she was about 3 or 4. Everyone stayed on me about it. She never had a favorite toy or passy and the only thing she loved was her bottle. I would ask her, "are you doing to take that bottle to school?" and she would say yes. I don't remember how or when but one day she just gave it up. I think your child will too when she is ready. Hope this helps you.
You're a bad mother!! It's just one of those things. We don't like to see or hear our kids upset no matter what age they are!!! I like the Easter Bunny idea!!! Too bad my son will be 1 in May so I don't know yet if he will give me the battle on the bottle issue or not. He hasn't really taken to the sippy cup yet but he will drink out of a regular cup if I hold it for him. With my daughter I just stopped giving her the bottle when she was one. I started slowly giving her the sippy cup more often every few days till I just stopped giving her a bottle. Take her to the store and let her pick one out on her own. Start giving her the cup more often and then just start putting water in the bottle and everything else in the cup. She may throw a fit and not drink anything but you have to stay strong and not cave in. It may seem like it is killing her but she'll survie and probably won't even remember a few months down the road!!!
Good luck to you guys!!
S.
Hi,
Have you tried the Nuby cups with the soft nipples? I've heard from several moms with the same problem that those helped with the transition b/c the nipple is soft much like that of a bottle. I actually used those at first myself, but thankfully my daughter didn't have too hard of a time. I hope you figure out a solution. Best of luck! :)
T.
You can try the soft spout sippys. Walmart has them in the Parent's Choice brand and the Nubby brand. Try to restrict bottles to milk or formula. I'm assuming you don't breastfeed or give breastmilk. At this point, she should be getting most of her nutrition from solid food not liquids. If your daughter is having dental problems due to the bottle it's not unkind to take it away from her. As a parent it is up to you to decide when, what and how your child eats and drinks. Give water or watered down juice in a sippy instead of milk in a bottle when she asks for a drink. She should only need about 4 ounces of full strength juice at this age, so an 8 oz sippy of half water and half juice a day is about right. If you keep adding water to the cup as she empties it there will still be some flavor to the water if she tends to refuse the plain stuff.
Go to walmart or another store that has sippie cups. When I was getting my daughter off of bottles and onto sippie cups I bought a sippie cup with a "nipple" looking tip. She got use to that and then I went to the soft tipped sippie cups. Then to the hard ones and now she drinks from either straw sippie cups or just a regular cup. Hope this helps.
~R.~
I also think you should try giving the bottle to the Easter Bunny. When my mother took my bottles away she said that the Easter Bunny needed them for her little bunnies. She never had any problems after that. Now of corse, my mom could care less what I do. But try that. Hopefully she'll be up to letting little baby bunnies have her bottles. =) I gave Justin's paci up to the Easter Bunny Last year. He did just fine without it. =) I'm also going to give Alannah's bottles up to the Easter Bunny this year. =)
Good Luck.
People have told me to just throw it away and it will be tough the first few days but after that it gets easier. Really I don't know first hand because I am in the process of braking Allen.Well Allen is fully broke with no trouble at all he hasnt even wanted a bottle and its going on week 3 now yahwho
Have you tried taking her to pick out her own sippy cup? Perhaps letting her choose will make the difference. Another suggestion....how about the 'magic' cup...one 'found' or 'captured' at the beach...or left behind by a fairy....use your imagintaion, tie it into what your daughter is fond of. If she "discovers" a magical cup she will be more prone to using it,in fact, she will probably never use anything else!!
Sometimes as parents we have to be really creative, just try and remember what it was like when we were children and had nothing but an imagination, lol. then we can find all sorts of things to use for our parenting techniques. Blend a child's creativity with our adult mentality......
Another idea, seeing the comments about giving it to the easter bunny..perhaps the easter bunny could in return leave her a new sippy cup with a note thanking her for the bottle?
Give her water in the bottle and juice or milk in a cup. Water isn't going to hurt her teeth and it would probably help her transition better.
