when did you stop lo's bottle?

papaya · 2006-01-09T14:07:35+00:00

When and how please???! Friends DD wont take milk from anything but her bottle she 2.6yr...any suggestions would be very appreciated.... tia

Piffle · 09/01/2006 14:09

I stopped dd at 28 mths I did not want her to be 3 and on the bottle - no idea why, worried about her teeth I think.
one day I just chucked them out and gave her a plain cup
she has been fine
She was only having one evening bottle that said and drunk water and everything else from a cup happily.

Mum2Ela · 09/01/2006 14:12

Last night decided that DS shouldnt be taking a bottle to bed with him anymore. He is 14 mths. Totally on beakers now.

DD was 10 months when I took hers away.

Should say they were both on beakers from about 6 months for water.

Worried about their teeth, but also really dislike seeing toddlers with bottles. Not sure why.

Go cold turkey.

MaloryTowers · 09/01/2006 14:16

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mazzystar · 09/01/2006 14:18

one week after first birthday. was expecting hell but he was fine.

i started by substituting a magic cup spout for the bottle teat, still using a bottle, so he could see he was still getting milk. then after a week switched the bottle for a cup.

have heard of people having success by switching to really slow newborn teats, so its difficult to get much milk without supreme sucking effort, making the speed of drinking from a cup more appealing

Flamesparrow · 09/01/2006 14:23

I'm in the same situation as you Papaya....

Piffle - how did you get her to drink it from the cup? DD looks like she's being poisoned if it is in anything other than a bottle...

Feel slightly mean taking it away too... the fairies swiped her dummies in October, and she has become much more reliant on bedtime bottles since.

Donbean · 09/01/2006 14:25

Im going to be contraversial here and say that my ds at aged 2.5 still has a bottle for all of his milk drinks in the day and i have no problem with him having them until he is ready to stop.
We have lovely cuddly time at those times and i am very reluctant to end this.
He enjoys a bottle, it gets the goodness of the milk into him so im not in the least bit worried.
We clean his teeth regularly.

expatinscotland · 09/01/2006 14:26

when she rejected it last week. she's 2.5, and she started asking us to openb her bottle so she could drink it like a beaker. so we put her on a cup w/a straw and she never looked back!

TeddyRobinson · 09/01/2006 14:29

Ds1 and ds2 were about 10 months. Was a bit lazier with ds3 - he was about 14 months.

How - just put the bottles away (all thrown away now!) and used the anyway up cups. He'd been drinking from those anyway.

I don't stress over the amount of milk they drink though - the amount goes down because they don't 'glug' it out of a cup the way they do with the bottle but mine have all eaten cereal with milk every day, have yoghurt most days and cheese too. Also, at bedtime I start the milk earlier to make sure he drinks a decent amount - with a bottle you just sit and feed for 10 mins but with a cup he puts it down a lot and plays with toys so we have to keep encouraging him to drink.

Piffle · 09/01/2006 14:31

I was lucky I think flame, she always drank water from 5 mths out of a little cup actually an avent clear plastic lid and moved on to a normal open cup from there, she has never drunk from a beaker, cannot use a straw yet although she is trying

Flamesparrow · 09/01/2006 14:57

Donbean - I think that is what I am leaning towards... She isn't eating much during the day, and is filling up on bottles at bedtime (cows milk, but is obviously filling her), she doesn't have much in the way of a comfort thing, and I feel like, I look after her teeth as best I can - taking away her one comfort thing just because I feel I should feels wrong.

Going with the theory of children aren't normally still on bottles by the time they start school - she'll stop when she's ready.

Pfer · 09/01/2006 15:02

DS2 has decided himself over the last 2 weeks that he no longer wants a bottle - he's 15 months. As he's eating ok during the day that's fine isn't it? Don't the powers that be recommend giving 1 pint up to 2yrs?

colditz · 09/01/2006 15:05

My ds was 2.5 when I threw his bottle in the bin, because we went on holiday, forgot to pack it, I forgot to wash it before we when, and when we got back it was green. I am rubbish round the house.

so we threw it away, he asked for it for a while, but I just told him it was gone and he had to have cups.

Flamesparrow · 09/01/2006 15:09

Pfer - Humans don't actually get much in the way of calcium from milk anyway (possibly the fat is good for the little ones?)... something to do with an enzyme we need to make use of the milk isn't there in enough quantities or something. Generally better to rely on other sources anyway, so the milk amount isn't an issue.

Flamesparrow · 09/01/2006 15:10

Pfer - Humans don't actually get much in the way of calcium from milk anyway (possibly the fat is good for the little ones?)... something to do with an enzyme we need to make use of the milk isn't there in enough quantities or something. Generally better to rely on other sources anyway, so the milk amount isn't an issue.

HRHQueenOfQuelNoel · 09/01/2006 15:12

DS2 was 2 at the end of November - and still has a bottle of milk before he goes to bed - all other drinks are out of either a proper 'glass' or a toddler cup.

Pfer · 09/01/2006 15:12

GoodO, DS1 wouldn't have it after I stopped b/f him at 13months and now with DS2 not wanting it at all. They scoff enough of everything else anyway.

laundrylover · 09/01/2006 16:10

Tilly just stopped her bedtime bottle about a month ago (21 months). My best friend is a speech therapist so I get to know all the problems with kids who have bottles and dummies for ages and strange facial muscles!!!
Anyway I kept putting it off as I wanted her to get a good lot of milk at bedtime but one night I just gave it to her in a mug and she was fine! She can knock back 6 or 7 ounces in one go!!! God help us when she starts on pints of snakebite!

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papaya · 09/01/2006 20:26

lol laundrylover

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LadySherlockofLGJ · 09/01/2006 20:44

DS still gets milk in any up cup at night and he is 4.7.

lyra41 · 10/01/2006 08:15

my ds continued with a bottle of milk at bedtime till he was 3 or so, and i don't remember any major probs stopping it.

Em32 · 10/01/2006 19:56

Ds gave up his bottles of his own accord around 18 months. However, he also decided he didn't want milk anymore either as it only comes in a bottle as far as he's concerned. He now has yoghurts, cheese, milk on cereal and those munch bunch yoghurt drinks instead and seems to be fine (now nearly 2)

tegan · 10/01/2006 20:13

DD1 had a bottle until she was 2 but never had a dummy.
DD2 hasn't had a bottle since she was 12 months but has a dummy to go to bed with.