Please help me get dd off bottles

[LoveYouForeverMyBaby]

Dd is 11 months old and hv has said at 12 months I should stop the bottles cold turkey once she's 1. I've also had comments from other mums at playgroups etc "she's still using a bottle??"

She uses a beaker really well for water but refuses to take more than a couple sips for milk.

Here's is her milk schedule:

7am 150-200mls
11am 150-200mls
3pm 50-100 mls (usually only 50mls, sometimes nothing)
7pm (bedtime) 180-200 mls

Usual milk intake around 500mls but she can have more or less deadening on the day.

Now my issues with stopping the bottles full stop are:

• dd wont drink anymore milk as she won't take it from a beaker or cup
• the 11 am feed she falls asleep while on the bottle and then has her 2 hour afternoon nap. Even if she isnt fully aleep she needs the bottle to get sleepy. I know this is bad.
• At bedtime she has her bottle, brushes teeth and goes to sleep from being wide awake, but again uses the bottle to relax and get sleepy.

What should I do? Remove the bottles cold turkey? I have tried getting rid of the 3pm one as she doesn't need it but he just cries and cries.

She eats breakfast and dinner beautifully, but lunch is barely a snack. I assume because she's drinking too much milk.

Please help.

Feel like a failure having other mums tell me how embarrassing it is that she's still using a bottle!

I think if the alternative is juice, maybe it's best to stick to bottles of milk. As I understand if the reason to cut out bottles is because they can damage the teeth, but I'm sure juice from a beaker would be worse (although I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong!)

My DS is 16 months and still has a bottle at night and until very recently in the morning too. I actually think 12 months to stop all bottles is a bit unrealistic & most people just start trying to cut them out at that age.

Will your DD drink water from a cup? Why don't you just take it each
bottle at a time, 1st cut down the bottle she has less of until she doesn't have any then start on the next. Don't worry though, I work preschool children and know it's a small minority that are completely off of bottles by 12 months.

Thanks everyone, I dont mind keeping the am and pm bottle but feel the need to try and switch the 11am bottle to a toddler cup as I go back to work in amonth and mil is looking after dd and refuses to encourage moving away from bottles.