any advice for getting 15 month old off bottles of milk?

[OnEdge]

My 15 month old son has bottles of cws milk several times a day. Usually he likes one to help him go to sleep. So thats about four a day because he wakes for one in the night.

I know this is too much, and he is picky about food because he is getting his nutrition from the milk.

What is the best way to reduce these bottles?

Have considered diluting them with water, or iis it best to just not give them?

[gomez]

Just stop giving them - sooner rather than later if you want to get rid of them. No view on whether you should/need to or not but my general rule is the younger they are when you do things the easier. You could still offer milk but in a cup rather than a bottle after his meals?

Maybe a wee cup of milk before bed. And keep a cup (with a lid) of water in his room so you can give him a drink during the night just in case he is thirsty. Even an Anyway Up cup of water maybe so he can take it in with him which might help during thr night.

[Grumpla]

Has he got his back teeth yet? My 15mo went from 6 bottles every 24hrs to 3 this summer after he got four back teeth through in the space of a fortnight (fun) I figured that being able to chew more easily meant he was eating more, as over a period of three or four weeks he stopped crying for a bottle in the afternoon, then his dream feed went, then he stopped waking for one early morning as well. It was amazing!!! But he did seem to do it himself - I still offer him one if he does the milk noise.

[choufleur]

How much does he have in a bottle?