Hi there,
My 19 month old little girl was on to bottles a day. One in the morning where she drank about 200ml and one at bedtime about 260 ml.
Last night she blatantly refused her bottle. We tried changing the milk in case it was a funny batch (she's on APtamil ready made 1 year ), we then tried it in a beaker but still no luck.
Thinking she'd wake up starving she didn't. She slept until 8am (normally wakes about 7:30) and then refused her morning bottle too (again we tried different bottles/beakers).
She has done the same thing this evening.
She gets a lot of her calcium from cheese and yogurt that she loves so I'm not bothered about dropping the milk if shes ready I just would have thought it would be a gradual process not instant.
I phones the health visitor today and she said not to worry.
It's just that as the bottle was such an integral part of her bedtime and she was a little angel at going down she now is refusing the bottle and also taking about 10 minutes to settle herself. I've never liked her crying but I'm feeling pretty sire that she just needs to establish a new bedtime pattern.
We went in and read her a story ( we normally used to do this when she had her bottle) and she was happy. But then gets upset and takes about 10 minutes to settle.
Any tips or advice or just reassurance very appreciated.
x