Anybody with a 2 year old who still....

[Tiasmummy]

has two bottles a day? Please dont ask why she does not use a cup to drink milk...she just IS NOT having any of it! LOL! My daughter has one bottle first thing in the morning and one before bed. Should I be tryin to phase out the morning bottle do you think?

She has about 7 ounces in each bottle.

Thanks :-)

i dont what harm it does tbh , if it has milk in it

if your dd is happy let her be

if its bothering you you could try moving to an avent cup, they have stage cups

hth

my dd has two bottles aswell for morning and nightime

My dd is just 2 and she still has 2 sometimes 3 bottles of milk a day. I have tried her with it all shapes and sizes cups but to no avail.
I still let her have a dummy aswell.... am finding her hard work some of the time so tend to allow her to have it when she is being a pain or when i know she is teething.
Dont know what to suggest really tiasmummy buying more expensive cups does not work.

Will keep a close eye on this thread for advice...
good luck

i have a 2.4yr old who still has AT LEAST 2 bottles of milk a day. She loves her milk, and refuses to drink it out of a cup. We have tried the whole bottles with spouted teats but NO! It has to be a proper bottle!

She is still little, and I will get rid of it sometime soon, but Im not going to cause her upset. She still doesnt really understand!

hav eyou tried a

doidy cup

skip the beaker cup/spout cup thing altogether

my ds (20mo) was the same. I spent a fortune on cups but he would just not drink the milk. He only had one bottle at bedtime but increasingly was drinking less and less of it. Recently I have just started leaving a cup of milk around in the afternoon from after he gets up from his nap till bedtime and he seems to drink it little by little throughout that time. I just use a cheap beaker that I bought in a pack of 8 from ToysRus, it has a lid but is not 'non spill'. I only offer him this with his dinner too. Now he has no bedtime drink which I figure should help with potty training anyway.

I have a 2yr dd and she drinks milk from the cup. But only because she likes it that way. If she prefered the bottle, I would have no qualms about it as well. Many of her 2 yr old friends are still having 2 bottles a day. The mums have no issue with it as well. In countries like France, I see seven yr olds with a bottle still. I personally think its only here in UK where they make an issue over teat vs cup.

Thanks for all of your replies :-) I have not yet tried the doidy cup but I feel like I have spent SO much on every kind of cup going...I am kinda resigned to the idea that NOTHING will do apart from a bottle. She will drink water and juice out of a cup no problem but milk? Its just not happening! But I guess it is not doing any harm as Nailpolish says.

Laney - My daughter had a dummy up until just past 2. Thought I would have a nightmare trying to get her off it but she was fine! Just did not give it to her one night...she made a sad face for about a minute and that was it! lol!

DS1 (2 and a bit) still has a cup of milk as soon as he gets up and one before bed. Was your issue whether it shouldn't be from a bottle or the actual milk? I think they're supposed to have the milk until they're well on the way to teenagers for it's calcium/nutritional content and it's supposed to be full fat too. With regards to the bottle I think unless you cut it out when they're too young to argue you're going to have a real battle as it's a comfort/habit thing.

They say choose your battles - I'd say whether milk's from a cup or a bottle isn't worth the fight at this stage

My ds breastfed until he was 2.5 - so I don't think a two year old with a bottle is deeply shocking.

Soph - I was thinking that not having a bedtime bottle would help her get through the night without wetting...but not sure. She is 2.3 and has been potty trained since 2.1 but she still wears a nappy at night.

Anybody know if not having a nightime bottle makes a difference to staying dry at night? I am kinda getting off the subject now I know!

Liquid - I guess my concern is it becoming mix of it becoming so much of a habit to have milk in the morning that she drinks it just for the sake of it...and maybe her intake being too much.

I think the recommended amount of milk a day for her age is about 10 ounces....she between 14-16 from bottles plus cereal, yoghurts etc. You think you can ever have TOO much milk?

My 3.6 yrold DD1 has 2 bottles a day.Night and morning. I don't have a problem with it although my H/V did say its not a good idea as milk contains sugar. Once i run out of teats i won't be buying anymore.
Also DD1 was dry at night from 2.2.Not once wet the bed. DD2 2.4 is nearly dry every night. Bottle just before bed.

Ds1 (2) has a bottle before bed and one in the morning. Juice out of beakers or cups but he'll only have milk out of bottles. It used to bother me but not anymore.

how on earth do you get your lo's dry at such a young age?
Havent started with dd yet she does sit on the potty to do wee wee's,
Ds is 5.10 and still wet most nights!

sorry didnt mean to veer from the subject...

They both just started using the potty early and loved being sat on the loo.
Night time nappies were dry in the morning so just took a chance with DD1. DD2 had a dry nappy most mornings then i ran out of nappies and money so took a chance! 90% of the time she stays dry.
DS's were very different!