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

It is true that bottlefeeding to comfort to sleep tends to mean the fluid fromthe bottle bathes their teeth for longer. Juice canbe very damaging to teeth so it is good you are no longer using juice in bottles in middle of night. Stick to milk bottles, and maybe as others say, water them down to 3/4 strength milk then 1/2 strength milk? Eventually to bottles of water? But if anything like mine he will chuck the bottle of water out of the cot! He is not stubborn, just learnt to communicate to his mum very wel.
He is very young and still needs lots of suckling time. Not surprising he is craving milky bottle suckling time when sleepyas it is the best comfort he has found yet!

He does have almond milk for breakfast but I'm changing it to soya, as that was what was advised for my DB (child) when he moved over.

I'd give him water in a bottle.
He will drink this if actually thirsty and it won't harm his teeth.

He might get hungrier in the day as he adjusts to having his calories in daylight - but that is not a bad thing.

Needing a drink of water at night isn't so unusual.

Water in the comforting bottle
cups for other things - and in the daytime.

I feel so guilty now.

I've been giving him bloody juice not realising I'm ruining his teeth & trying to stop his bottles early!

Only way he'll go to sleep with fuss is if I cuddle him. I have so much to do when he goes to bed, I can't possible cuddle him to sleep every night

Without fuss**

Don't start watering down his Nutramigen or the amounts won't be right, I suggested watering down assuming wrongly that he was drinking cows milk.

Yes I think most people assumed you meant cows milk op. You shouldn't water down formula at all.

There's a nutramigen 3?!! I've only just managed to get him on 2!

Il ring the doctors tomorrow.

Fuck the housework! Slowly change to watered down milk then after a while, water, but please dont feel guilty about any juice or comfort bottles. You cant know everything, none of us can. Wework stuff out as we go. Be kind to yourself.

You may want to look at soya and boys. I believe something to do with fertility. Oat milk is meant to be most nutritional after soya especially the grey oatly one.

He will stop when he's ready! Especially as a single parent you can only do your best ... my eldest had a 'baby cup' of milk to go to bed till she was 10! Lots of criticism from friends and family but she has perfect teeth and now at a top uni - she needed the comfort after a v stressful early years. As other posters have said definitely no juice and watering the milk down is a good idea but they do grow out of bottles etc so try not to stress about it!

There you go, I learnt something new too, sorry Op. Thankyou SecretBum & ObiJuanKanobi, as they say, dont water down formula as it is his much needed nutrition. Could Op offer 1/2 a bottle to go to sleep, then other half when baby wakes? Then 1/4 bottle to go to sleep then 3/4 when baby wakes? Then a warm bottle of. cooled boiled water to sleep, and offer all bottles of formula on waking ?

Not a lone parent, so not quite the pressures you have but I did have twins and was also a bit "anything for an easy life" some of the time. But do I think you have to do it with an eye to the future if you want things to get more manageable before they've left home!

We didn't give bottles for naps but did use them at night time. We waited till they were nearly two before we stopped and we did it by explaining we were sending them to some other babies who needed them (put them all in a big envelope and addressed them to send off - then put them in the bin when the twins were asleep!). It worked surprisingly easily, but they were much older. It's not supposed to be good for them to have bottles as late as we left it and I did feel like we were late to it, but I couldn't face the thought of more long bedtimes until that stage!

Can you try cutting down how much formula he has in the bottle each night until he's mainly just sucking on the teat? Then move him over to a dummy? Eventually wean him off that?

Agree, make changes slowly, toallow baby to slowly adjust. Your baby is stillvery young and needs suckling time, can you try dummy too? Even if for a while, baby has half bottle to comfort to sleep then he has half as much wet nappies while asleep You are doing a wonderful job! Xo

Careful with soya, some evidence suggests it can affect hormones. For some it could be quite serious.

Soya only affects boys hormones if they're under a year, that's why nutramigen is prescribed, and don't screw with the ratios otherwise it messes with the amount of LLG in it which is the bacteria which helps them grow out of CMPA

At my last HV visit I got told to expect that they need a bottle until the age of 2. She said it's a comfort thing as well as nutrition. So really don't worry too much.

However, stop the night feeding. My youngest has one bottle a day after dinner, last thing before bed, but before we brush their teeth. Then nothing all night.

Don't do soy products with a boy too often; stick with the almond milk.

My daughter is 22 months and also on nutramigen 2 (I didn't know there was a 3 either!!). She has a bottle before bed (won't accept cup) and one in the night if she wakes. We switched her daytime pre nap feed to almond milk a few months ago and last month she started refusing it. So she doesn't have a daytime bottle anymore. Do not water down the formula. You could try half and half oatly barista (this is the milk alternative that's recommended for milk allergery children over 1 as it is nutritionally most similar to cows milk). We used almond as my daughter doesn't get on with oat milk, but oat milk is best. Soya is not advised because it can muck up hormones.

1? My 16 month old still has a bottle to bed and a bottle at nap and 1 more in the day.

My 3 year old still took a bottle. We stopped at 3.

1 is still a baby. Don't worry about it for another year or two.

Hi all, I'm really new to this. This is my 1st post so I'm trying to understand abbreviations etc. So here's my problem. My son 19months is having 9 9oz bottles of water nearly every night. If I don't give in he will scream and cry and hit and temper. He wakes everyone up if he doesn't have a bottle. I have tried sippy cups he point blank refuses. I don't know what to do. He had tests this week for diabetes which came back clear. But he's anemic and his kidneys are over working his urine is clear no colour to it what so ever. I also work full time so I need some sleep but atm I'm waking every hour just to give a bottle or change his nappy. He's with my mil in day so to get her on board with not using a bottle will be a challenge in itself. (As mil knows best) I'd be so grateful for advice or help please. Thank you in advance xx

J9willz81 hopefully you have mistyped something there as 9 x 9oz of water is ridiculous! But if it is real I suggest you start your own thread.

My son is 21 months old, always been a terrible sleeper. Goes to bed with a bottle of milk and has one in the night too. I co-sleep because otherwise I’m up and down like a bloody yo-yo 🙄🤣 3rd child so anything goes 😉

Ahh didn’t realise it was an old thread. 9 x 9oz bottles impossible surely?!

No typo.....9 x 9oz bottles this is what's stressing me out. Drs are not listening and just fobbing me off. Jgjgjgjgjg how do i post a new thread? X