My son is 14 months old and he only has a bottle at naptime and bedtime, I feel that it is time for him to give up the bottle but i'm not sure how to go about it. any advice?
So its been 4 days and 3 nights with no bottle and he is actually doing really good! Thanks yall!
First, I think that you need to move the bottles earlier so that it isn't associated with nap/bed. Put a book, or change between bottle and bed. Then, you can switch to a sippy or regular cup. Be consistent though, and don't give in and go back to bottles.
We took my sons away at 13 months. I just put the bottles away and didn't offer any. He did fine. I really think a drawn out weaning process makes it harder for many kids. He has a blankie for comfort. We stuck to the same routine, but minus the bottle. It didn't take him any longer to fa;ll asleep.
Just quit giving it to him. Replace it with a sippy cup. I did with all my kids. Quit cold turkey. Took my second one a little longer to adjust. She didn't want the sippy cup but I didn't give her the bottle either so if she was really thirsty, she took the sippy cup.
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Im in the same situation. Not sure what to do either seems to be what winds him down at nap/bed time. Cant wait to see the responces!
We switched our son to the Nuby sippy cup that had a bottle/nipple-like top, then gradually just replaced the top to the regular sippy cup kind - he didn't even seem to care. We found the cups with the multiple tops at Walmart. Good luck!
It's been a while for me but there was a company that had some really great products that included cups with interchangeable lids. The lids went from nipple, to spout (sippy cup), to straw, and then plain cup. The company was MagMag. It created a great transition for both my DS and DD.
Funny story though, I had kept the cups and the kids' favorite bowls, utensils, etc. for a long time, and my DS who is now 19, stumbled across them about 3 years ago. He was ecstatic! He told me that I had traumatized him by taking away his bottle (he sucked his thumb in his sleep until about 6 years ago, and still has a shred of stinky blanket that he jokingly pulls out every once in a while). Overall, though, he's a good, well-rounded young man now. Actually, now that I think about it, he does tend to keep stuff around a little longer than he should - or maybe it's just the untidy man thing. LOL!
I just took it away from my son with no problem but I never put my kids to bed with a bottle. Do you feed him and then put him to bed? If so you shouldn't have a problem. I have heard that children who are given a bottle to go to sleep are much harder to break. Good luck.
We told my daughter that on such and such date she was going to be officially a big girl, and big girls didn't need bottles anymore, and on that date we were going to package all her bottles and send them on to a new baby that needs them. (the date was only about 2-3 days away from the date we told her) then had her put them in a special bag and we sent them away to the place where a new mommy can get them if she needed them (we donated them) it did take a couple of days reminder that she doesn't use bottles but she was fine.
I think it's better to just go cold turkey. You may have a rough couple of days but then it will be done. The older they get, the more attached they become so go ahead and do it. It'll be fine.
When I weened my daughter I would put water in the bottle and she didnt want that so she just left alone and went on to sleep course it took a couple of day for her to figure out the water was she was getting . It worked out just fine.
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