Weening 15 Month Old off Bedtime Bottle

When I weaned my daughter I started by feeding her the nightime bottle to her downstairs in a fully lit room and then went upstairs and rocked her without the bottle. Then I eventually just gave her a small snack and water before bed and it went fine. Hope that helps.

I would just do it one night- cold turkey. I have an 18 mo. old and at one year, we just plain got rid of the bottles. Since yours is already used to sippy cups, I would switch to doing that before bed. She also got to a point too in growing that she started needing a small snack with her milk before bed as well. That keeps her from getting up at night and being hungry.

Good luck!

I just did this myself for my 17 month old. I started by making sure everything else was still in the routine including brushing her teeth after the bottle. Then I just switched out the bottle for a bedtime snack of a few crackers and some water. She cried a little bit when I put her down the first time but for the most part it was surprisingly easy. I think it's just key to have a routine that you follow every night when you can.

With my daughter, we weened her of the bedtime bottle around 18-20 months (although I think we started a bit late). What we did was to replace the bottle with milk in a sippy cup and we called it her "sippy bottle". She was ok with that and eventually drank less and less from the sippy. After a couple more months we then just got rid of the sippy before bed too.

With my son (he is now 18 months), we just went cold turkey around 15 or 16 months and he had no problem. He wasn't very attached to the bottle. However, since he wasn't getting all those fluids right before bed he started waking in the night wanting water. So now we leave a big sippy in his crib with him at night filled with water for him to drink when he wakes up. I wouldn't put anything but water in it though because it is bad for their teeth to be drinking milk all night long (We have also started brushing his teeth twice a day too).

I suggest slowly changing your daughter's routine to include something in addition to the bottle, such as reading a couple books or playing and snuggling in your bed before finishing your usual routine. Then, one day just skip to the books and snuggling and perhaps she won't notice the lack of a bottle. I breastfed my son (who is the same age as your daughter right now) and was nursing him right before bed. I tried the method I described, and he quit nursing cold turkey a few weeks ago. I don't know if that was just luck though. If you currently rock your daughter to sleep without letting her fall asleep on her own, it might be a bit more difficult. Good luck!

When we took our child off her bottle at a year and moved her into the sippy, we began giving her a water sippy at night. Water won't hurt her teeth and then she's got a means of getting something to drink which we don't worry about her spilling in the middle of the night.

I know this is a bit late, so hope it still helps. With my daughter, between 15 and 18 months we stopped giving her a night time bottle. Instead, we gave her a sippy full of milk (about the same amount) in her highchair. At first she didn't drink that much, so we started giving her a small snack with it so she would drink more...and that seemed to work. We struggled witht he snack though, trying to find a snack that would help fill her up but not get her reenergized (fruit DID NOT work!). Another thing is that we used to give the bottle and read stories after bath time before putting her down for bed. Since we started the sippy we didn't want to disrupt her night routine of a calm bath, books, and snuggle time to go back downstairs and get a snack and milk, so we started giving that to her BEFORE we did an other night routines so not to disrupt them. That seemed to work better. After awhile, we just slowly took the snack and milk away. Now, at 2+ yrs old, she doesn't eat anything from dinnertime on (around 6:00).
Hope it helps.

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