Need Help Getting 19 Month Old off the Bottle and pacifier---Please Moms

I have an 18 month old baby girl and I just did it.The night time bottle is the hardest. I watered down the milk in the bottle first (1/2 water 1/2 milk). After about a week of that I gave her a warmed up sippy cup with all milk in it plus I kept her up a little later so she was really tired. She usually drank all the milk before I got her upstairs to her room, then I started a new routine with books and songs. She did not mind not having the bottle. She did ask for it the next night but I stayed strong and gave her the warm milk in a sippy. After 3 days I was confident enough to throw out all those bottles! Try it!
Mother of 4 and still learning.

"Lose" or "break" part of the bottle (at least that's the excuse) so it doesn't work anymore - DON'T buy replacement ones. As for the paci - we made it a bedtime-only thing, then when it fell out in the night we'd tuck it away, & over time that also got "lost". Then use lots of praise for "not needing that silly baby thing anymore anyway - what a big girl"!

Just take it away, say no, and deal with it! They have these sippy cups at walmart in a basket on the bottom shelf of the cup isle, they have a silicone nipple, they are veryt similar to bottles, get one and try that! When my kids turned one i took the bottle away, and gave them that cup, and the binky was gone by 2 1/2, agian just take it away!

C.

Cold turkey worked for both my kids. For the bottle, they cried/whined for a couple of hours and then they got hungry enough and drank out of the bottle.

For the pacifier, I tried somenone else's advice with my eldest and pierced tiny holes in it. According to the advice, the sucking pleasure wouldn't feel the same and she'd give it up. Well, that didn't work and she continued. So I removed it cold turkey. She missed it for 1 day and a half literally!!! So, I decided to do the same with my second one years later and had even quicker results.

Good luck!

How I did it with my childern is.I cut the end of the pacifier off of it and they stop becauce they could not suck on it os they broke them sefe.The bottle I waited for the trast man to come and pick up the trast.I told my child that the trast man need it and it went in the trast.I broke my child the same way as I did the pacifier,but at 1 time.It took about a week for both.I hope that help you you just have to keep up with it or it well not work.

Hi M.. I have a 20 month old. I nursed her until a year old and was told by her pedi that she was under weight and need a supplement so we decided to give her Pediasure. She wasn't used to sippy cup at that time and refused it so I was forced to start her on a bottle really late. One thing that worked to wean her are the "Born Free" sippy cup transition bottles. They are a rubber sippy cup lid in a bottle shaped container. The plastic is also free of any contaminating chemicals. I love the company! As far as the binky, I think you you just have to put your foot down. My little one had constant ear infections from 14-18 months and they think it had a lot to do with sleeping with the binky. We ended up having to get tubes. I remember the night I took it away. I had decided earlier that day and had myself all prepared for horrible, sleepless night. I stood at her crib before bed and prayed for like 5 minutes! Then I put her down and walked out and she never made a sound. That was the last we talked about the binky.
Just do it!
Good luck!
J.

Personally I would have a talk with the Grandparents and let my feelings known. Then I would throw the pacifier out. It won't take only a couple of nights before she will do fine without it. Then I would wait a couple of weeks and then stop the bottle at nap time. Then wait a couple of weeks and just throw the bottle out. Right before bed time feed her some baby cereal. That should easily replace the bottle. Noramlly when a child is done with the bottle other than nap or bed time it is because they are hungry. You can easily replace that hunger with the cereal.

Cold turkey was the only thing that worked for us, for both. She refused to drink out of the sippy cup, but it was the only thing offered, so about 4 that afternoon she started drinking out of it and never went back. The pacifier was harder. Took a few days of her wanting it, and asking for it. I had to throw them out so I wouldn't cave. Just don't do both at the same time. Good luck!

I think that you are very blessed to have grandparents to help. It is very unfair to expect grandparents to do the hard thing and take it away. When you have the weekend off that is the time to give it up. I believe the bottle will be easier. It is not the end of the world if they don't get milk for a few days. Give her cheese and yogurt, maybe ice cream as a treat for a few days. Only offer her the cup. Get rid of the bottle first. Give her a some time to adjust. Make sure when you take her back to the grand parents you are clear about what you did for the past couple of days. After you get rid of the bottle, then work on the pacifier. When my youngest daughter was 18 months we only let her have the pacifier at sleepy time. SHe had a little box that we called the binky box that she kept on her dresser. When she turned 2 I had a really good friend who hated the pacifier. She came to my daughters birthday party and told her she had to trade the binky box for her present. She went and got it no problem. Every child is different. Trust yourself and be strong. It will not be as hard as you think. One at a time though. Good Luck.

Cold turkey with a twist! Talk up the bottle/pacifier fairy, she comes to take away those baby things when they are big kids. Tell her that it will happen at night and when she wakes up she will have a prize from the fairy for her being such a big girl! Get some stickers or something she just loves and reward her the morning you will start this new routine. It works wonders. You will be suprised how quickly they forget about bottles and pacifiers!!
Good Luck
J.

my dau sucked a pacifier until she was 3 so I am not the one about that. As far as the bottle. take it away and have some sleepless nights. she will be weaned within a week

Hi M. my name is L. and I have two boys one 5 and one 3 now. Both of my boys were drinking out of a regular cup by 12-15 mo. with no straw or sippy cup. I never gave my boys the pacifier but I would assume that this may work for that also. My pediatrician told me to one night just clean out all of the cups bottles or what ever it is that you dont want them to have any more and tell them that "the sippy cup man" came and took all the sippy cups because you are a big girl now and you don't need them any more. She told me to put the blame on someone other than yourself ... she said that you could time it with an event like a holiday but to not let it backfire on you ... she said one mom said the easter bunny came and took the Sippy cups and the child hated the easter bunny. I used the "sippy cup man" and my boys looked at me funny for a minute and then went on there way ... and didnt ask me for it at all. I was quite amazed that it worked ... you could try it. At 19 months you should still be able to fool her. good luck