Milk and the night bottle

[Ursa]

Hello
My son is now 23 months old and still have a bottle in the morning and at night. He does not want breakfast and cried when I tried giving him his milk in a beaker.
Any ideas on how to stop the bottles?
And when should I stop giving him formula and start on just full cream milk. He would happily drink milk in a cup or beaker with a biscuit at 10:00 but not his morning or night bottle.

I just went out and bought the Heinz beaker and produced it out of the blue one morning. Told myself that we would go for it morning and night for a week and then if no success go back to bottles but we had it licked by day 4 and have not looked back since.

For all of mine, I decided to bite the bullet and just take them away. Presented a beaker with milk in the morning, a beaker with water at bedtime and then left it in the cot overnight (anyway up type so it didn't leak). IME, whenever you're trying to do anything like this, as long as you do it with complete conviction, it's always better than you think it'll be. Also, once you've decided, DON'T GO BACK.

I think it's fine to give them cow's milk (preferably full fat) from 1 year but check with your HV.

Good luck and HTH.

Thanks. I will try again with the beaker this weekend. I always start things at weekends so that we don't have a tantrum just before nursery.

I agree, just take the bottle away, so if he wants milk it's a beaker or nothing. It should only take hime a couple of days to come to terms with.
We give dd an anyway-up cup for bedtime too.
Normal full fat milk is fine after 1 year as long as he doesn't have any allergies. Have you tried warming the bedtime one up to make it different? My dd likes her bedtime one warm (at least in winter - we don't do it if the weather's warm or it goes off overnight).

I just took it of my dd we used a straw as it is still sucking... she loves it and has morning and night and afternoon milk out of it...
Teach them by filling a straw and let it drip into their mouths, they then learn to suck for the milk to some out.
My dd was on follow on til 18 mths because of a special weight gain issue she had, there was no other need for her to be on it, it is just marketing.
You can stop it at anytime after 12m.

we cut out out his morning bottle for a few weeks before stopping the bedtime bottle. then we went cold turkey and told him big boys didnt use a bottle, big boys use beakers. he has a milk beaker and a juice beaker. the smell/taste of juice always lingered in the beaker no matter how well washed or sterilised, so we got a seperate one for milk. we got to different types so he knows which is which.
he did ask for bottle a few times but we decided it was better not to confuse him by going back on what we'd said.

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lol twiglett

wrap up some cups in special paper for his birthday and tell him he is a big boy now...

show him someone with rotten teeth and say that is what happens if you drink milk out of bottles for too long

(actually seeing the window cleaner's stumps of teeth has had a marvellous effect on teeth brushing, my DS spotted them and said "how did they get like that?", so I seized the opportunity for a talk about brushing and not too many sweets)

At around 15 months I just switched my dd's bedtime bottle from milk to water with no announcement. She has had milk in a beaker from 9 or 10 months at lunch and dinner (breakfast dairy is in yogurt or cereal). She never complained as really she wanted the bottle and didn't care what was in it. This way I don't worry about rotten teeth.

I made a special trip out to buy a new "big girls" beaker.... let her choose one in the shop etc.. then just binned the bottles. good luck.