weaning of bottles

[Pomi]

At what age did you wean you child of the bottle and how.

I started to give water in a cup around 6 months (one with a spill-proof top), just so they would get used to drinking out of a different type of thing.

It started off with just a couple of sips and built up. If I remember rightly, when they were just down to their night time bottle of milk (around 1 year?), they had been used to their cups and so it replaced the bottle completely.

Does that help. Oh yes, whilst they were in the bath was a good time to practice them holding their cups, any spills didn't matter.

ds 22 months drinks water from a cup but refuse to drink milk when given in a bottle and i cannot getrid of the bottle completly as when he gets up at night or early morning i have no other choice than giving the bottle. ds2 is 11 months and i am not thinking about giving him milk without the bottle.

I meant he refuse to drink the milk when given in any other thing.

Oh I see. In that case the night bottle is just habit/comfort. I suppose you have 2 choices - either get him out of the night habit which will mean a short time of him being upset as you explain the bottle is gone.

Like any habit he will soon learn crying for his bottle won't get him it, he either has a cup or nothing. Second option is, let him keep his night bottle for a few more months. Some children just need their 'comfort' things a bit longer. Doesn't matter unless it's causing you problems. As he gets older he'll realise a bottle is just for babies, and believe me, the older they get the more they can;t stand to be thought of as babies!

If you take the first option and ban the bottle as it were just make sure you put as much milk in his food, ie custards, breakfasts etc.

Actually emmatom i stop ds1 giving bottle at night from about 6 or 7 months but then i had to cuddle him back to sleep this was all going well but when he was 11 months old i had ds2 and the only soloution i discover is to reintroduce the night bottle. emmotom we had very bad nights when both my babies kept waking each other up at night.

Don't make stresses for yourself then Pomi, life is too short as they say.

Why don't you just let him have his bottle for comfort at night. He doesn't wake his sibling, you don't get stressed and just remember it won't be long before he wants to get rid of it himself.

Thanks for all your advices emmatom.