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Help, 22month old still having a morning bottle, can't stop it.

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Sassil · 03/04/2008 12:36

My DD is 22 months and still loves her bottle in the morning (approx 4oz). She still has one at night also. She asks for it first thing and gets really upset if i offer her something else. Does anyone else have a similar situation or some advice on how to get her off this. Surely at this age she shouldnt' be on any more bottles, she refuses to drink milk from a cup.

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moondog · 03/04/2008 12:37

God,if she's happy with it and it gives her pleasure,why fight her to give it up? Leave her be.

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Sassil · 03/04/2008 12:40

Really, even though all health visitors say she should NOT be on a bottle anymore at all!!!!

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Lulumama · 03/04/2008 12:43

DD almost 3 and still has milk in a bottle. she wll not drink milk out o anything else. nothing. have bought every type of cup and beaker and she would rather not drink. i would rather she drank milk , so she has it for now. if i was breastfeeding her i would not take away that comfort or source of milk

i do not let her walk around with her bottle or sip from it and put it down and come back to it and if she has milk at night, she has her teeth brushed ( whihc she does anyway!!) before she goes to bed.

she is not a great eater, and if she has milk, i am less anxious about her not eating all day.

moondog · 03/04/2008 12:44

Well, there's a lot of stuff we 'shouldn't' do eh and we do. I still suck mt thumb at 40!

It's only a small part of her life-not as if she has one all day eh?

HandbagAddiction · 03/04/2008 12:45

If it's just milk, then I really don't see why a bottle is a big issue. To me, it is far more important that they continue to drink milk at this stage.

dd1 had a bottle until she was 3 and refused to drink milk out of anything else. We managed to switch her over when we made up a story about leaving the bottles on the ferry coming back from holiday. dd2 - 22 months - also still has a bottle morning and night and I do not intend to change this is the short terms at all.

crumpet · 03/04/2008 12:45

mine had a bottle in the evening until she was 3. I only mounted a campaign to stop it when I was pregnant to avoid any issues in her wanting to have more bottles in the day. My view was that the 5 mins it took her to drain the bottle once a day wasn't likely to ruin her teeth/diet/overall development.

RubySlippers · 03/04/2008 12:46

crikey - all the 22 month olds i know are still having morning milk and 99 % still drink from bottle

my DS still has milk in a bottle - it is his equivalent of a morning cuppa and he can chug it much faster than from a cup

LilRedWG · 03/04/2008 12:46

DD (also 22 months) has a nine ounce bottle morning and evening. All her other drinks are from cups.

She's happy, she likes the comfort and DH and I enjoy the snuggles we get when we're giving it to her, as she won't even hold it herself.

barnstaple · 03/04/2008 12:47

How many adults do you know who still use a bottle?!

She'll grow out of it one day (my dd and several of her peers at school were still having one bottle a day when they were nearly 6!). MIL always had hysterics about it. I just kept saying the above. dd stopped around her birthdy - I think school friends get them out of it, really.

horsish · 03/04/2008 12:55

as long as it's not a bottle of gin

francagoestohollywood · 03/04/2008 12:59

I can't see anything wrong about drinking a bottle of milk first thing in the morning. My dc did it until they were 3ish. It gave them lots of comfort and they liked to regress to babyhood for 5 minutes. Dd stopped drinking her bottle of milk in September, when she had a vomiting bug. Sadly she won't drink milk in any other way.

kittywise · 03/04/2008 13:03

my 2.3 year old still has about three bottles a day, 1st thing at nap time and at night.
There's nothing wrong if they like it, it's not harming them.

sophiewd · 03/04/2008 13:03

DD age 26 months still ahs a bottle morning and night, she has jsut started asking for milk at meal times/other times and that we give in a plastic glass.

Lulumama · 03/04/2008 13:11

RubySlippers · 03/04/2008 13:13

yes - got it yesterday >>

onepieceoflollipop · 03/04/2008 13:15

No reason the HV should know unless you go to see your HV and make a point of telling her Same with anyone else who might "disapprove".

I keep it quiet - apart from on mnet - that my dd is addicted to her dummy. Most of us have these little family "secrets"!

In a few months you might be able to negotiate with her if you still feel you would like her to give it up.

cestlavie · 03/04/2008 13:25

Oh god, don't worry about it. DD 2.5 still has a bottle in the morning and just before bed, and virtually all her friends do as well. The way I see it is that it's a really nice way to chill out in the evening and slowly wake up in the morning... I mean, technically we probably shouldn't be drinking a large glass of wine in the evening before bed... !

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