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Getting rid of bottle....nearly 3 yr old.

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nutcackle · 28/10/2005 07:43

Ok Ds will be 3 in december and still has milk in a bottle in the morning and hot chocolate in a bottle before bed.

Ds is fine with drinking water/juice out of a cup with a lid or even a normal cup without a lid, but milk/hot chocllate he only wants his bottle.

We have tried various cups but he just won't drink it.

Any ideas ??

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madmarchscare · 31/10/2005 20:50

Pomi, not sure who you were asking, but DS didnt have milk at all to get him back to sleep after 6 months, he self soothed. I see how it could be more difficult with more than one though.

bridge1001 · 31/10/2005 21:28

my eldest dd was more reluctant than her sister...she was 3 and a half, we posted them off to babies, and went shopping for grwon up mugs the same day. it took some perseverence, and they still have full fat milk every morning and evening. should it be semi skimmed? they are not overweight?

PotPourri · 31/10/2005 21:57

Great Thread Nutcackle. I am trying to do a similar thing as i am pregnant again and like another poster don't want to get the bottles mixed up (unless of course breast feeding works out this time). I'm just wondering if DD is too young to understand a fairy taking the bottles away or similar story, she is only 11 months and will be 17 months when new baby arrives...

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nutcackle · 31/10/2005 22:00

Hmmm i think 11 mths may be to young to understand that yeah, perhaps try in a couiple of months.

Ds hasn't missed his bottle at all I don't think. He's frowned at his cup a couple of times but then just gets on with it.

Oh and i'm so chuffed this made the homepage

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bridge1001 · 31/10/2005 22:04

potpouri, 11 months is way too young to lose the bottle, my 2 are 16 months apart, and we never got bottles mixed up. dd1 started to only have milk in the morning, with my first cup of tea, and during bed time stories. they still have it now, but in a mug, however dd1 would of liked to carry on with bottle for ever!

galaxy · 31/10/2005 22:07

nutty, dd ( 3next week) gave up her bottle a couple of months ago when I offered her bedtime milk from a special Noddy cup that she chose with a straw.

I'd tried everything else but that worked.

sallyscarystrawberry · 31/10/2005 22:13

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Elibean · 31/10/2005 22:27

We lost the bottle on holiday, when the teat split and we had no spare. DD (19 months at the time) accepted having her milk in a 'big girl cup' 'like Katie' (a 3 yr old she adores) without a second thought. I was gobsmacked - was expecting a nuclear explosion at least. I think being away from home, the usual bedtime routine etc helped a LOT - plus, it was just her time. If I'd tried a month or two earlier, I think it would have been really stressful - I could just feel she wasn't ready.

Like soooo many things - all kids different and all have their own timescales!

bridge1001 · 31/10/2005 22:39

when do you stop the bed time milk? morning and evening is the only time mine have milk, they are 5 and 4. its such a routine for them, but it means i still lift them (getting harder to do now) otherwise i would be worried about wet beds.

fsmail · 01/11/2005 21:52

My DS told me shortly after his third birthday that he was now too old for a bottle and didn't want one. He was the most addicted child ever and I thought I would be picking him up from secondary school with one in his mouth. He never had one after that date and was fine. My DD (15 months) then gave up at night herself at about 9 months although occasionally she has one at nursery in the morning because the other babies are having one. She never has one at home but I think that may be because big brov has a cup and she also wants to drink out of an open cup all the time (a bit of a pain with milk and accidents). Therefore, my only point would be that they decide for themselves and it will only take one of their friends to laugh at them and they will realise for themselves. Why push them?

8787sharon · 04/11/2005 11:44

I tried giving DS milk in a cup a couple of times and he threw it back. My other 2 aged 4 and 6 gave up bottles easily at 8 months and 12 months. I'm sure he'll give it up eventually!

PaulineB · 04/11/2005 12:06

Hi, with my son, at around one year, when I gave up formular for cows milk, I just stopped with the bottle, with no problem at all. With my daughter, who is the eldest, I didnt do anything, and had a struggle at around 3 to stop the bottle, so the earlier the better I think before they can realise its gone. Both of them had been having the cup from around six months with water in it.

Jellyfish · 04/11/2005 12:54

Was starting to think about stopping (milk)bottles (morning & night) for my 2yr 3mth dd but she's got so finicky recently with her food that at least I know she's had the nourishment of two bottles. Will try again when her eating habits have stabilised!! If they ever do ...

tabbicat · 08/11/2005 10:24

Our DD was coming up to her third birthday and walked around constantly with a bottle of juice like a comforter. We told her that the night of her birthday the bottle fairy comes and takes away the bottles because being 3 means she is becoming a big girl and she will leave a big girl cup as a replacement to the bottles she will be taking away. It worked and have had no problems since although she does still need juice by her bed when going to sleep.

Issymum · 08/11/2005 12:39

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Gomez · 08/11/2005 13:08

Slightly change of tack and in no way impying a better solution but Bridge1001 go easy on the generalisations. Neither of my girls had bottles and booth went from boob to cup at 11/12 months so not too early to loose the bottle if that is what you want to do.

KiwiKate · 09/11/2005 04:11

Issymum, we let our ds (2.6yo) have a bottle at bed time if he wants, but he is only allowed to have water in it. We've done this for a few months and now he hardly bothers to ask for it (although if he has a cold I sometimes see him drinking from the bottle in the middle of the night, he just helps himself without calling me).

I'd like to ditch the bottles. Really like the idea of Father Christmas doing a collection! But DS has a 2mo sister, and I use bottles for expressing - so I can't use that idea as he'll see that the bottles are being used for sister. Will just have to go with "big boys don't have bottles" at some stage I suppose. I don't want to push it now as he seems to find it quite comforting.

gRoOoOoOoVyChIcK · 01/12/2005 00:24

i know this is veering off nutcackles original q a bit (sorry) but i was wondering if anyone has used a tommy tippee non spill cup with success and from what age?
my dd is 8 1/2 months and drinks water and diluted juice using the cup but i always wonder if it's quite hard work having to bite down on the spout to let the drink out? so can she really drink a whole bottles worth ie. 6-7ozs from a cup? can anyone help would be much appreciated.

sugarbaby · 01/12/2005 11:28

my DS gave up his bottles of milk in favour of any way up cups at age 9 months, apart from a bottle which he had at night (after bath) until he was 2 and a half, then we told him that the bottle fairy was coming to collect the bottle and now he has an anyway up cup with his milk at night as well - he was 3 last month. He has all his daytime drinks out of an open beeker (I bought hundereds of them before he would use one, he eventually chose his own and that worked well). I'm debating with the "tell him father christmas takes the lid cups away" for the milk cups at night, but I know a lot of people whose kids have given up milk when given it in a different receptacle and therefore don't really see the harm. I'd rather he kept drinking milk foor as long as possible.

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