Tips for weaning 2.5 year old off her bottle?

[Happyclappy20]

It's all she wants and she won't drink milk from a cup.

When my DD was that age she was the same. We had a Bye Bye Bottle party with her big sister and cousin.

Just a little afternoon tea and the girls all drank from cups. Maybe buy her a special cup that’s just hers.

At that age I’d tell her it’s going, let her choose a new cup (or put a sticker of her favourite character on an existing cup) and then ride out any tantrums.

Agree with werewolf

Take her shopping for a cup then bin all the bottles and ride it out.

Just bin them !

Some kind of Father Christmas bribe? Or maybe you could leave the bottles out for the elves and they will bring her a nice big girl cup? Only one of my dc had a bottle think we just said a few wks before her 3rd birthday that when your 3 your too grown up for a bottle and it worked I realise we were quite lucky that happened that easily

My DD kept it up until she was 3. I told her that when she turned 3 , all bottles had to be given to the man who collected the rubbish bins - when he came around she stood outside and handed them to him with lots of tears. She wasn't happy but she got over it . I got her some lovely Bunnykins cups and she soon took to them.

I just threw them away and said they were gone!

A friend of mine wrote her DD a letter from Father Christmas explaining that the baby elves at the North Pole didn't have enough bottles to drink from. The DD then left all of her bottles on the fireplace that night. When she came down in the morning, there was a lovely thank you card from the elves and a special new cup with Anna and Elsa on it. Her DD never asked for a bottle again but still (at the age of 6 now) enjoys reminiscing about how she sent her baby bottles to the North Pole when she was 2.

DD1 wanted a "big girl" bed so we told her that Father Christmas had emailed saying that girls who drank from bottles couldn't have big girl beds. She chose the duvet sets she wanted, then we emailed FC to tell him what she wanted. She left the bottles out on Christmas Eve and on Christmas morning they were gone. In her room was a lovely new bed with Tweenie bedding.

The actual facts were quite amusing. DH lost the assembly instructions for the Ikea bed, but he is quite practical. We had a bit to drink on Christmas Eve then thought we should assemble the bed. Carrying it upstairs, he had an asthma attack, then we both had the giggles as we were trying to sneak the bed into the girls' room, between 2 cots. And then feigning shock the next morning when she shouted out in delight that FC had been...!

DD had her last bottle the night before her 1st birthday. She never missed it and I use a 360 cup with her.

I took DS to the dentist at 2.5 who asked if he used a dummy or a bottle. He was a bottle lover. The dentist gave him a stern ticking off and that was that. We did buy him a fun new cup though.

Hi,
What cups do people use? She likes 360 for water but bot milk

We used the munchkin weighed straw cup for a bit but by 2.5 she was just drinking out of an open beaker.

At 2.5 I would just give her the milk in a normal cup with no lid. The lidded cups can be difficult to clean out when they've had milk in them and she's old enough to use a proper cup.

Just get rid. At 2.5 she doesn’t need vast quantities of milk anyway.

I said i would let my 2.5 year old choose two Halloween decorations of her choice from the pound shop the day after she stopped. I have rarely seen her so excited or decorations so awful...