To think he will never stop??

[FickleHuman]

Having bottles to go to bed with.

To make my life easier (single mum, no help), I started giving my DS a bottle to go to bed with. Now, he screams if he doesn't get one, so as you can imagine, he now gets one every time.

He has one for his nap morning, afternoon and then when he goes to bed.

He will NOT go to sleep without one. How do I even start to stop this?? Have I messed up??

I've made a rod for my own back haven't I

I’m still breastfeeding to sleep at 16 months. All sounds normal to me. Why are you being so hard on him?

I wouldn’t give him juice. My DC was still on three bottles at 12mo :) he’s just cut down to one a day at bedtime and he’s 16 months, and has dropped them pretty easily. Maybe give him a bit less if he’s wetting? Although maybe you need better nappies, have you tried others? But homestly I wouldn’t worry. He’s still tiny. He’ll stop eventually :)

He's only a baby op !
Also a single mum here , they'll stop anything if you stick at it tho ( in my case screaming the house down to " sleep in yourrrr bedddd ")

I offered milk in a cup instead of a bottle for her morning feed at 15 months and she just stopped wanting it. Then I started giving Weetabix with milk before bedtime at 16 months and she no longer cares. It will pass.

Just turned one is still a baby. Ds3 is ten months and needs a boob to go to sleep every night...I wouldn't even think of reducing milk yet tbh.

Try tapering it down to water? Slowly, over a period of a good few weeks, until it's water and hopefully he won't be bothered to wake up for that?

I know I seem harsh it's just he wakes so many times a night that I'm shattered. I know it's because it's for his fluids. He'd probably sleep longer if he knew they weren't coming

Im not a single mum and my DD had bottle before bed until she was nearly 3. They naturally stop milk at bedtime and she did this about 2 months after the bottle fairy collected her bottle and replaced it with a lovely cup.

I would stop the juice though. That is bad.

How much milk should he have during the day?

I know absolutely naff all! He's my first.

Just turned one. In the nicest possible way hers a grip get hold of it. He's only a tiny baby ffs. Honestly please do not worry
My dd had her bottle for bed until she was nearly 8. I didn’t care it helped her sleep. It was her comforter. She was happy so I was happy. No harm done.

I've effectively been ruining my sons oral health (without realising it) all for an easy life!

I've just messaged my DM & Dsis and told them
NO MORE JUICE.

He hates going to bed as it is, cries whenever I take him to his room, he's going to cry for hours when I stop the bottle.

I need to try and give him
Another comforter, he can't have a bottle. He shouldn't even have a bottle now.

I've tried to give him a cup at night and for naps but he cries for his bottle.

I know 1 is young but it's easier when they are younger.

He associates bed and bottle. Its easy to do and he will outgrow it eventually. But there are small changes you can make.

Just try 3oz bottles then, see how he gets on. If he cries for more "sorry all gone sleepy time now".

So I've been advised 20oz of milk a day, I usually give him 3x7oz bottles.

Shall I give him 6x3oz??

3x during day whilst he's up an 3 for naps and bedtime??

Bloody hell, my dd at 16 months goes to bed with a bottle, so I must be doing something wrong haha I thought it was normal

Can you gradually water the milk down more and more each night? Eventually he won't like the taste and will stop wanting it. You say you brush his teeth but is this done before or after the bottle of milk? If he's having his teeth cleaned and then going to sleep with a bottle of milk (which is quite sugary - all that lactose) then it's not going to be good for his teeth at all.

Milk or juice in bed may rot his teeth. Now I know they may not, he may be lucky. Look up early childhood caries and bottle syndrome. My son is not yet two and his top teeth are nearly all rotten from breastfeeding at night. He will shortly get crowns / extractions under general anaesthetic. A lot more stressful than night weaning was.

Milk is just as bad as juice if they bring bottle to bed.

I wouldn't worry too much about still giving milk, better than juice though.
A friend of mine weaned her kids off night milk in a fiendishly clever way. They were of an age to be drinking cows milk, and she switched to goat. It tastes slightly different but is still obviously milk, after about 3 nights they decided they didn't want milk in a bottle at bedtime any more!

I guess the only reason I didn't think it was normal is because me and my siblings all stopped at 1 (there is 6 of us).

I realise it's way more normal than I thought!

He's only 1. If the bottles make him happy and help him sleep, there is no need to stop yet.

I'm 42 and still occasionally wake up in the night wantingback drink, so. I don't think that's something you ever grow out of

Oh my Christ. I need to be brushing his teeth 3 times a day!

I'm watering the milk down at bed

My 3 year old still likes a bottle of milk. I can't get worked up about it, he sleeps all night now but he associates bottles with rest so he has them in the day when he's tired too. He won't still be having them forever but he likes em, he's still young and it does no harm.
Don't fret, and don't make your life unnecessarily hard because he's reached a age someone/you thinks is too old for a bottle.