Milk in the bottle for a two year old and how much per day?

[MilkyWay]

dd was 2 on Monday and has always refused to drink her milk from anything other than a bottle. We lost her bottle on holiday in the Summer,and tried to give her milk in her beaker but she point blank refused. She wont drink from a bottle with an Avent teat either.

She drinks 8 o'z straight down at about 9:30am and then again before bedtime so I'm not overly-worried about her teeth as it's not like she's sucking on it for ages. However, should she still be having her morning bottle and do we go cold turkey with removing the bottles? We did agree that we'd throw away her bottles when she turned 2 but she cried when we actually went to do it bless her.

I wouldn't worry about it. My DS1 was a bit like this. (He's nearly 3 and will very happily drink water of a normal cup but milk has to be in an Avent beaker with spout) She won't take a bottle of milk to school with her so she'll grow out of it at some point. HTH
Good luck

kept meaning to get rid of DS's bottles then with one thing and another we didn't

he was still drinking bedtime milk out of them (with Avent teat) at 3 .. finally at 3 years 3 months I bribed him with a 'special pressie' (he did rather well out of that one) .. it worked with no hassle at all

now he's 3.8 it just doesn't seem such a big deal and I don't know why I was getting worked up about it ..

he hardly ever drinks milk btw .. and won't eat cheese but he gets lots of green veg and likes yogurts

my daughter is just 2, i got fed up with bottles the other week (she eats thro the teats), so bought her a new beaker. see this short thread here about it. she still hasnt had any milk since then.

our dd used a bottle at night until she was about 2.6 - she has it in a beaker now. Kids that age should be having about a pint of milk a day, or the equivalent ( cheese, yogurt, etc)

Too late for you this time, Milkyway, but the best thing is to stop bottles much much earlier, definitely well before one year old. The whole thing is so much simpler the younger the child is. I was lucky with mine, as ds never had a bottle anyway and dd only had them occasionally and stopped by six months and moved on to a cup.

Thanks for your replies - she;s poorly at the moment but once fully fit, I think we'll just ditch the bottles and see what the result is!

I give my DS aged 14 mths a bottle in the morning & at night. Usually a full 9oz avent bottle. I like the idea that he drinks the milk. He drinks juice twice a day from a non spill cup. I am not convinced that he eats enough as it is so I don't want to stop the milk. But how do I get him off it and eating more.