ADVICE PLEASE

[runkid]

Is it ok for my ds who is 2.5yrs to still have his bottle of milk in the morning.He has it at 6 when i get up for work as he is still in bed. Nurse says he should stop having it when i went for his assessment and have a cup with a straw

[Trinityrhino]

I would have no problem with it at all.
I presume that he can drink from cups with straws or lids or maybe even open cups in which case there is no need to get hung up on one bottle. I would ignore her and carry on with it if it's what makes you and your ds happy

[aaronsmummy]

If he has it in bed then I would agree with trinityrhino. You don't want it spilt and have to change the bed before you start the day, just an extra complication you don't need.

[runkid]

Thanx and ds can drink out of cups too

[shatteredmumsrus]

my 2yo still has a bottle in the morning and before bed and the HV said it was fine as long as every other drink is from anything but a bottle so dont fret about it

[helenhismadwife]

my dd who is 2 also has a bottle in bed at night she doesnt have a dummy never has done I think its her version of a dummy she is happy and so am I, when she is ready she will stop having it is my attitude.

she drinks fine from a cup and using a straw

[comebacksummer]

Same here- did have a terrible week where we tried to "wean" DD2 ( just turned 2 ) from her morning and bedtime milk bottles- all it did was bugger up her bedtime calm routine and get her screaming the place down morning and night- she absolutely refused to have her milk from anything other than her bottle. She never drinks any other fluid from it- just milk- and she has a temperature gauge built into her fingers I think- I get " too hot! Too cold" all the time.. have to get it exactly right. It's a comfort thing really, and I have decided that bugger it, I can't be bothered with the fight at the moment.. who cares if she has bottles at home?

[smilingpolitely]

I'm obviously a total rule breaker dd2 only stopped having a bottle am and pm when ds arrived in august. That was the time limit we decided to set. She was 4 !! I just didn't tell the HVs. It never put her off eating well and she got a lot of comfort from it. She didn't cotton on that we didn't really need the bottles for ds as he was breast fed.