DS is a few weeks away from being 2 years old and still has a bottle of milk to get him to sleep at night (I know it's ridiculously old, just humour me ) The trouble is, he has always been a nightmare of a sleeper and a bottle of milk is the only thing that got him to sleep at night. He really does need to give it up now though - I told myself I'd stop as soon as he was 1 and here we are coming up to his 2nd birthday and I still haven't done it, eeek! Anyway, he has been a lot better at going to sleep at night lately so I'm thinking now might be a good time to ditch the bedtime bottle. We are on holiday soon and as everything will be different there and his whole routine out of whack (and hopefully he'll be exhausted from playing on the beach all day) I'm thinking that he might not miss them whilst we're there and that this is an ideal time to stop. Also I really can't be arsed with faffing about washing bottles on holiday.
The only problem is that just in the last few days he has suddenly developed a 'thing' about not having bottles. In the morning he is suddenly asking for a bottle even though he hasn't one for ages, he always has a cup during the day. I told him "no, bottles in the daytime are for little babies and you're a big boy now" and he went nuts and now gets upset every morning. Typical, he couldn't care less about bottles in the daytime and the one time I decide to ditch them he suddenly cares!! I haven't yet tried taking it away at night but if he gets upset in the mornings when he never had one anyway then it's probably going to be even harder at night when he always had one.
So, oh wise MNers, do you think not taking bottles on holiday is:
(a) a good idea because everything else will be different so it's a natural break.
or
(b) a bad idea because he'll undoubtedly be very tired and will want the comfort of his bottle even more and we could just have a screaming, hsyterical child on our hands for a week.
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Ditching bottles whilst on holiday - shall I go for it or is this a stupid idea?
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Tinkjon · 14/08/2009 10:46
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