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What age did you get rid of the bottle?

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MammyShirl · 19/09/2004 13:05

My 18 mth dd has two bottles a day when she takes her morning nap and going to bed. She has warm milk and drinks it lying down in her cot then falls asleep. I f she has it before she takes longer to go down. I know they say you should stop giving them bottles around the age if one. What did you do?

I tried once giving her milk in a beaker and she cried and threw it at me, I guess its not as comforting and milk in plastic beakers does not taste the same.

Any advice much appreciated.

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edam · 19/09/2004 17:39

Coddy's dead right, that's why 'they' say get rid of bottles at 1 yo. But ds only has his in the day time and doesn't continue sucking once he's finished the milk (generally, although did go through a phase of hanging onto bottle a couple of weeks ago .

competitionwinningCOD · 19/09/2004 17:40

my brothers kids used them till they were 3 as night tim e dummys really
looked naff

80sMum · 19/09/2004 17:49

I have to agree that you need a pretty strong suck to get anything out of an 'any way up' cup. I was surprised at how difficult it is (tried my god-daughter's one!) Back when my ds & dd were babies, the sippy cups we had were also decidedly drippy cups - as evidenced by the trails of juice and Ribena on the carpets! Children (even young babies, like both of mine who started using them at 4 months) had no trouble getting the drink out. A well-meaning person invented these totally sealed cups to save people's carpets - but maybe they've created more problems than they've solved. After all, you can always clean up a carpet (or get a new one!) but getting a 3-year-old to give up a beloved bottle is quite a different matter!!

Corky · 21/09/2004 19:17

My dd is nearly 2 and I've tried several times to get her off her 2 bottles. She will quite happily drink juice from any beaker, but if I sneak in milk and she tastes it - she spits it out! Therefore I have now put it down to stubborness so I've taken the bottles away and she hasn't drunk any milk for 3 weeks. Like everyone says as long as they get calcium from other things then what's the problem. Also she will not let me brush her teeth so the thought of milk being left on her teeth at night was worrying me. Maybe one day she'll take the plunge and drink milk from a cup!!

hana · 21/09/2004 19:53

dd had her nighttime milk in a bottle until she was about 2y4m. We had gone away and I told her I didn't bring any bottles but did have some beakers/sippy cups instead.

Lethal · 21/09/2004 23:50

DS decided when he was about 14 months old that he didn't want a bottle anymore. It was an immediate, overnight change - one day he was having a bottle, the next day he completely refused to have it and never had one again. In fact it was about another year before I could get him to drink milk again I don't think the act of drinking out of a bottle was comforting to him at all, he just did it out of necessity IYKWIM. The only comforter he really ever had was a dummy for his daytime naps, and I finally managed to wean him off it when he was 3 1/2. THAT was much more of a battle than getting rid of the bottle!!

tex111 · 22/09/2004 00:20

Just got DS (26 months) off the bottles this week. He's always been a very sucky baby, had a dummy until he was about 15 months old. He's always preferred regular tumblers with spouts for his water (never liked those non-spill sippy cups) but refused to have milk out of them. I thought it best he had his milk so just occasionally tried various cups until we found one he liked. It's actually a Tommy Tippee non-spill tumbler with a soft rubbery spout so he still gets some comfort satisfaction. I don't worry about his teeth as he always has his milk sitting on the sofa and then we brush his teeth before nap and sleep. I think the soft spout made all the difference.

woodstock · 22/09/2004 01:12

Corky, have you tried giving her the toothbrush and just letting her fool around with it? I sit down on the floor with ds and we brush out teeth facing each other so he tries to mimic what I do. Then I follow up with one of those finger glove things that has little bristles on one side.

woodstock · 22/09/2004 01:12

That's "brush our teeth"

bunnyrabbit · 22/09/2004 13:41

I stopped giving DS bottles 2 weeks ago. 1 year and 2 days old.

He's had a beaker for his morning milk for a while. I was going to keep the night time milk in a bottle, but then I kept seeing children walking with bottles and, I don't want to offend anyone, but IMHO, a baby walking holding a bottle looks horrible. So I boxed up the bottles and the steriliser... very sad really. But I still get my cuddles when he drinks his milk from his beaker.

Whats the 'finger glove thing' Woodstock.

woodstock · 23/09/2004 13:16

It's made of thick rubber and fits over your index finger. It has bristles made of the same material on the tip. I can really get in and around ds's teeth with it and it doesn't hurt at all if he happens to bite down whilst I'm doing it. He has never seemed to mind and I feel like I get a better job done than anything I could do with the toothbrush at this point.

bunnyrabbit · 23/09/2004 17:23

Sounds excellent. Where did you get it???? I want one!!

woodstock · 26/09/2004 10:02

I found it at a Wal-Mart. do you have one near you? I hear they are now practically everywhere!

edam · 26/09/2004 10:43

Friend tells me she got really good sippy cups from Playtex, don't drip as much as normal but not as difficult to get anything out of as an anyway up cup. Only problem is they are from the US; her sister brought them back. Am ready to place an order if anyone's going over there!

bunnyrabbit · 27/09/2004 13:41

Do we have Wal-mart in the UK???

codswallop · 27/09/2004 13:45

no we have asda

Hulababy · 27/09/2004 13:47

You can egt those little toothbrush things in some chemists, and sometimes in Mothercare. Think I got ours from The Baby Catologue website.

bunnyrabbit · 28/09/2004 09:17

Thank you thank you.. will have a look.

muffincat · 29/10/2004 11:20

My 2.9 month daughter has taken herself off the bottle - when I ask her if she wants a "bup" (her name not mine!) at night she says no so I would wait until your daughter is happy to come off. Mine still won't drink milk in any other way but is addicted to cheese and I add Osteocare liquid to her juice to make sure she gets enough calcium.

marysavannah · 10/12/2004 10:40

hi hulababy/ woodstock
can i have the official term for the finger glove thing a the name of a chemist that sells it??? plaz.
thanx
mary

tammylove · 10/12/2004 10:56

Ds stopped having a bottle and drinking from a beaker at 12 months, but i will be honest he is almost 3 but still like a warm bottle of milk to bed. xx

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