milk at night

[cleoismycat]

My dd will be 3 at the end of March. She tends to take a bottle to bed (I know, I know). We take the bottle away once she's asleep, usually within half hour. She has now started waking in the night and asking for a little bit of milk and gets hyterical when i tell her there isn't any until the morning. How on earth am I going to break this habit? She refuses milk in anything except a bottle at home, she'll use a cup at nursery.

any advice appreciated.

I have been tough on my two - with my eldest I tried and tried until I found a cup that she would drink the milk out of...it was a cup with a straw which went all the way to the bottom of the cup. I only faffed about keep trying to find one that she would drink out of because she has medicine daily that needs dissolving in the milk and I have to make sure she drinks it.

With my second child, I just threw all the bottles away at 15 months and told him it was milk out of a cup now. He refused the milk for a few days and in fact gave up milk at night totally at that point, but they don't need it by that age anyway so long as they have a good diet.

After a few days he realised the bottles weren't coming back and started to drink the milk from the cup and so has his milk from a Tommee Tippee cup when he wakes in the morning.

It worked for us. I think the problem is, they will resist it whatever but by throwing all the bottles out, I couldn't relent and give in - he just had to get used to it!

Good luck.