To just let ds keep his bottles?

[Babysafari]

I'll be honest I'm blatantly posting for traffic.

Ds is almost 12 months old. He has 3 meals and 3 bottles of milk each day. His bottles are at snack time and before bed.

He's a bit funny, he drinks water from an normal adult open beaker or mug, but he won't drink milk from one. He won't drink anything from a lidded cup, I've tried all different types.

He'll be starting nursery soon and I wanted to start replacing some of his milk with snacks and trying to get him to take his daytime milk from a cup because that's what they'll do there. He's having 3x8oz of milk so I was just going to cut it down a little bit.

He's not having any of it he doesn't seem to want anything in a cup apart from water and he just hates lidded sippy cups.

Any advice? Or shall I just let him have the bottles but half the milk and give him snacks.

This morning he got so upset at his milk being in a cup he wouldn't eat or drink anything in the end.

[Babysafari]

Ok thanks. Minipie we have a cup nearly identical to that with a rubber teat. He hates that one the most.

He's so funny that he'll happily drink water from a beaker but not the milk.

I think you're all right about nursery. I can remember ds1 refusing a beaker at home in favour of a sippy cup, until I realised he was happily drinking from one at nursery.

[SelinaMeyerVP]

I can't remember how old my DD was but she LOVED her warm bottle of milk before bedtime and was always a really good sleeper. It was just part of bedtime.

If he enjoys it why stop? Maybe cut down to morning and bedtime??

[Doreta2G]

I agree with those who say don't worry about it. My DD1 gave up her bottle before bed at the same time as dd2. I think they were about 1and 3 at the time. I remember being under quite a lot of pressure for her to drop it. I was surprise how many people were shocked when I said she still had it! In my head, she loved it before bed and full tummy = good night sleep for all!! Win/win!

She had her afternoon bottle until she was almost 2. She only gave up because she wanted to be grown up like mummy! I was on mat mat leave and she and I would jump into bed after lunch with a cup of milk each before our nap - happy times!! Then number 2 "the non sleeper" arrived and bang went our sleepy afternoons!

[MrsJayy]

Id cut the middle bottle of milk and just have morning and night when he goes to nursery 16oz of milk is fine for a year old just give him a beaker for during the day, my dds had milk in bottles at 1 just morning and night

[NeedACleverNN]

Like I said my ds just has a bottle for bed now and has juice in a beaker during the day.

As long as he gets calcium in his food don't worry about milk during the day. Milk before bed is mainly a comfort thing after 1 anywayb

[Dangermouse80]

My son kept having milk in a bottle till 2 and a half. Lots at nursery did the same. Perhaps just reduce milk to morning and evening.

[MrsDoylesTeaParty]

My 2.2 year old still had 2 bottles at night, I didn't know this was a thing! He loves it and I clean his teeth well. He is quite chubby though , is this a reason? He drinks just water from a cup with a straw through the day.

[minipie]

Ah ok, sounds like it may be an emotional attachment to the bottle of milk then rather than a physical preference

In your shoes I would probably keep giving the one at bedtime (brush teeth after) for as long as he wants, and switch to water plus snack (cheese or yog if worried abour dairy) for the snack time ones.

[SpiceLinerandHoneyLove]

DS is 3 in August and still has a bottle of warm milk just before bed. We also leave a bottle of milk in his bedroom at night. He doesn't always drink it. It's just a comfort thing.
During the day he drinks from an adult cup or glass, speaks beautifully, uses cutlery etc. His bottle is only for night time. Don't be too hasty to get rid of their 'babyness'. As a PP said, he won't got to university with a bottle!

[Bishybishybarnabee]

My DS is 14months and still has milk first thing in the morning, one mid afternoon and one just before bed. When he turned 1 he was also having a mid morning one but dropped that (led by him) when he started nursery. He doesn't always take his afternoon one so I think we'll be dropping that soon. We've started to move over to a cup with a straw for the morning milk, but the bottle is still very much part of bedtime. I think once the afternoon one is gone, and any morning milk is in a cup we'll start moving the bedtime one to a cup but I don't feel a massive hurry to do it at this stage: