My ds is 2 next week so I decided to get rid of his bottles. He was having 3 per day, first thing, pre nap and bedtime. The reason behind wanting to get rid of the bottles was that dc2 is due in sept so didn't want to be washing and sterilising millions of bottles and also just felt that ds was now old enough not to use them. We took ds to the shop and he choose he new big boy cup to use and we explained it was for milk and he seemed quite excited by all this. The first day worked like a dream, used his cup before his nap and before bed and drank most of the milk, great I thought! However day 2 was a different story, refusing the new cup and getting extremely worked up, but not actually asking for the bottle back just obviously not happy that something has changed. The bottle is usually given in a dark room whilst we have a snuggle in the chair then he is put into the cot for his nap and bedtime sleep so I guess the cup is not as snuggley and does seem different. My question is, do we preserver or bring back the bottle just for sleeping times? Is it better to get rid of bottles or ensure ds is having enough milk which yesterday he had none. Feel terrible that our cosy cuddle time has been disturbed and that he is now getting worked up before he goes to sleep :-(
Any advice would be fab, thank you!
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Got rid of all ds bottles, did I do the wrong thing?
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waffles1 · 06/05/2013 08:23
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