18Mnth Old Needs Cup to Fall Asleep

Make sure to brush her teeth immediately in the morning when she wakes up after the milk sits on her teeth all night. I have several friends who say this is what caused their kids cavities at such a young age and they regret it immensely. My one friend's 3 year old had 4 cavities from doing this type of thing. Have you thought about buying her a toy or giving her something she loves as a reward? Why don't you sit with her on your lap, let her have her bottle and sing to her or read while she is having her bottle then put her to bed?

One of the things that concerns me about this
is that the sippy cup is hard plastic.
She can hurt herself sleeping with this cup.
Regarding flavored water, have you tried ice chips instead?
Little bits of ice?

Try ice in her cup instead of the flavoring. My kids never really needed a bottle/paci/sippy for sleep, so I can't tell you from experience.

But, there is some really great advice here:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/222311/how_to_we...

Start to wean her from a sippy during the day, to drink from a small open face cup. You can also try putting a very very small amount of water in there, so she is only getting a few sips. She may be using it to chew on too. That could be a teething issue right there.

it can take years to night train a child not to wet bed after the are day trained. dont worry about it. take it one day at a time. a cup of water hurts no one

o i see its flavored water...that is different! start to dilute it now so that eventually its all water and no flavoring. id work on that during the day as well. no need for a bunch of empty calories or artificial flavorings!

as long as it's PLAIN or unsweetened water, don't worry
night time training is NOT a skill to learn it is a body hormone that the body has to develop, so cup or not it will either happen or not happen. (YOU can drink a cup of water right before bed and not have to get up and pee because you have a hormone telling your body to not pee in the middle of the night.) Daytime potty train and then at night just use pull ups. Honestly it's not a big deal.

If it's NOT just plain water in the sippy then gradually make it watered down until it is all water. (the first night 3 oz flavor to 1 oz plain, second day 2 and 2, third night 3 plain to 1 flavor - that kind of thing).

For those that mentioned cavities - it is true - I was under doctor's orders to give my daughter milk (with carnation instant breakfast and heavy cream in it) if she woke in the middle of the night. If I didn't she literally lost weight overnight. And she was already in the later stages of starvation, so not an option of stopping. She had to have 5 teeth pulled when she was 6 to 8 years old cause they were destroyed at the gum line, not normal cavities. But in my case we knew that was the risk but death or teeth pulling was not a choice, now was it?

I wish I could give you an answer, but my son was the exact same way. He is 7 now and has had an issue falling asleep forever. When he was a baby we had to stand next to his crib, when he got older, he needed a sippy cup in the middle of the night when he woke up to get himself back to sleep. He always wanted OJ so we just kept watering it down more and more. But eventually, he just stopped asking for it and that was the end. I wish I had some words of wisdom, but our son just grew out of it. Good luck!