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Kicking the Bottle - (babies bottle that is!)

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Charlee · 25/09/2008 14:02

DS is going to be 2 in a couple of weeks and is still heavily relient on a bottle to settle.

He does drink water/juice/milk room a cup but will not settle for a nap or bedtime without a bottle of milk and is still waking 4+ times a night for a bottle.

I would like him to give it up and the advice from my HV is just to 'bin them all' is this the only way or is there a gentler way anyone has found?

DS has no other comforter so uses his bottle as another child may use a dummy/blanket.

We attempted to go 'cold turkey' with the bottl bu after 4hrs of solid screaming, ds was being sick and i was cared he was going to knock himself out from thumoing his head on the wall, plus he shares a bedroom with ds1 who requires alot of sleep.

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lulumama · 25/09/2008 14:04

i would not take it off him just yet then, 2 is still little. if it is his only source of comfrot, i.e no blanket/ teddy/ thumb/ dummy, then keep it. wait until he is older and can be persuaded to give it up for the bottle fairy !

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Charlee · 25/09/2008 14:09

Thats what i thought lulumama but the problem is i think thats why he's waking at night because all he asks for when he's awake is his bottle. Normaly i wouldn't mind him waking at night but bless him he is a real handfull in the day and i really need some sleep now and again!

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lulumama · 25/09/2008 14:12

some parents will offer milk, gradually watering it down, until they are happy to take water, or nothing at all.

some of it will be habit, not jsut thirst, at 2 years old.... it does take perserverance to stop that though

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Charlee · 25/09/2008 14:15

Thank-you for your help, i had an awful night with him last night he woke up 4 times then finally got up at 4am only to ransack the house which is still looking like a bomb has hit it whilst crying pretty much the whole time. I am on auto pilot today not really functioning at all!

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lulumama · 25/09/2008 14:28

am sorry you are having such a difficult time. do you have a dh/p who can help in the night ?

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Charlee · 25/09/2008 15:12

Yes i have a wonderfull DP thanks, he does help me alot were just both getting a bit worn down by it.