My just turned three year old is obsessed with bottles.
I know it is really bad and I have tried to change it so many times and utterly failed. I just can't pry her away from the damn things and it is getting to the realms of ridiculous, I know it is unhealthy and gross.
I am just at the end of my tether with it. I wish I had never introduced the bloody things in the first place but they were kind of a bribe to get her off breastfeeding because she used to suck all night, now she still wants to suck all night but will do it with a bottle if you let her. Of course I don't, so instead she is up repeatedly all night every night wanting me to make her bottles of milk like a baby so she can suck and go to sleep.
Chastise me if you like, I know it is stupid but when it is 3am and it is the only thing she wants and the alternative is a two hour temper tantrum sometimes you just give her the bloody milk in a bottle just to get back to bed.
We have tried taking them away cold turkey, two weeks into that and the household was on its knees, she was screaming all night and most of each day, older children were suffering multiple wake ups a night, my DH has mental health issues and was having night time panic attacks, we spent all of each night arguing with him saying he would just give her the bloody thing and my saying not to.
We have given them happily away to the fairies for the little babies to drink from but again within days the whole household were zombies and everyone was bloody unhappy.
I am just in the most stupid situation having a three year old who wakes up three times a night for a bottle of bloody milk. And I know how ridiculous and stupid that sentence is. So I crack and take them away and throw them in the bin and no one gets any sleep at all, we have full on floor beating neighbour complaining kicking screaming toddler shit fits all night.
I already feel like a shit parent so please help. I did ok with my other child honestly. Her teeth are fine btw but I know they won't be for long at this rate.