How do i get my 20 month old daughter off baby bottles??

[katieholmes24]

My daughter still has a baby bottle during the day and through the night. shes now moving into the infants class at nursery so i think shes old enough now. she is really attached to it so think im going to struggle. any advice anyone?

Personally i wouldnt stress about the morning and night bottles both dd and ds1 still had nightime bottles at 3.5 and 4, they gave them up when ready. Ds2 is now 2.3 and still has morning and nightime bottles.
Can you bribe her with allowing bottles at home but cup for nursery?

I do this with ds2 and his dummy, no dummy in the day but allowed it for sleep (or when hes getting on my nerves )

She does drink from cups but its just when she seems to get tired or moody that she resorts back to wanting the bottle. She manages all day at nursery not having a bottle but it's when she gets home that she says 'milk'. I've tried giving her milk in a sippy cup but she just throws it away and continues to cry for her bottle. The thing is I always give in! I seem to be doing that alot lately

she doesn't have a dummy so i think the bottle is a comfort thing.

Boots do something that's kind of a cross between a bottle and a cup. It has a 'teat' but not like a bottle as such it's bigger and a diff shape. They do blue and pink, the blue one has rockets on it from memory. It's tall like a bottle, 2 handles. Found this ace for my DS a good half way thing!

We're trying to break this habot at the moment ourselves! DS2 (23mo) is fine at nursery but spends all weekends screaming for a Bot-Bot. He even goes to the fridge and gets the blue milk out!!

This is the second weekend of me being firm. One small tantrum at about 9.30 this morning but we went out so he was distracted. Half an hour ago he started again so I gave him some milk in a sippy cup which he drank (last weekend he just luzzed it at me)

He's just gone down with no milk and just a couple of minutes wingeing so am feeling quite positive today

Have you tried a straw? Sometimes they prefer drinking with a straw to straight out of the cup.

I am currently gently weaning DD off bottles. She's only 12 months, but we've had quite a lot of success doing it one by one. So first to go was one in the middle of the day, which was replaced with cup / sippy cup / straw, depending on her mood. Once we established that, we did the same with the evening one, and so on.