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When did you ditch the bottle?

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Missymum6 · 23/01/2015 08:11

Hi everyone, my daughter is 13months and loves her bottle, I keep getting told she should be off it but feel she isn't quite ready. Tried for a while to give her different cups, beakers, non spill cups ect NOPE she wants that bottle. She will sip out of a cup but if is thirsty gets frustrated and throws it or climbs up looking for her water bottle. (She has always drank loads of water) so just wondering if im not trying hard enough to get her off it? When did you get rid of bottles during the day? Any advise would be welcomed being made to feel bad about it

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confusedandemployed · 23/01/2015 08:15

We just ditched the last one this week. dd will be 2 next month

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Missymum6 · 23/01/2015 08:31

I thought 2/3 was normal, if I can remember correctly about friends kids and younger cousins im sure they were all still on bottles at this age! But my oh's side is really drumming it into me im holding her back! Hv isn't much help as usual!!

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britishbakeoffblues · 23/01/2015 08:32

My son was off bottles by the time he was 18 months - I swapped him to toddler cup with a soft spout to start with.

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gutzgutz · 23/01/2015 08:43

Official advise is 1 year. This is because drinks other than water out of a bottle can rot teeth more and I think affect speech. If it's water then the first point doesn't apply. Why not wait a few more months, keep pushing the beaker in the day and offer the bottle at night? You could try a cup with a built in straw as well.

Saying all the above we only just ditched the bottle a few months ago for DS2 and he is 2! He only had a bottle before bed and then teeth clean so wasn't such an issue in my opinion. Some children do take a while to get used to cups/ beakers.

MissYamabuki · 23/01/2015 08:46

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DD would drink water from beaker, cups, glasses.... but mik from the bottle only. Eventually she was having a bedtime bottle only. Then she caught a diarrhoea bug at nursery and after it settled we noticed that she was fine but milk brought the symptoms back. So we had to go cold turkey for a few days. She took it amazingly well - she asked for her bedtime bottle, we said you can't have it because it gives you a bad tummy and that was that. No tears, no battle. After a week or so we reintroduced milk in cups, glasses etc.

Surprisingly easy - she was obviously ready and I am glad we waited.

MissYamabuki · 23/01/2015 08:49

No teeth problems BTW and her speech is great or rather she will not shut up

beckslovestimmy · 23/01/2015 08:51

We got rid of DDs at about 14 months. She'd had water in a sippy cup for ages though. So we were getting rid of her morning and night time milk. I stopped the morning one first and replaced it with milk in a sippy cup. The night time one took a few days. I did milk in the sippy and what she didn't drink I tipped back into a bottle for her to finish. In 3 or 4 days she was drinking it all from the sippy. If its water I wouldn't worry. Wait until she's ready. It might be easier when she's interested in picking herself a 'big girl' cup?. Don't feel pressured this parenting lark is hard enough with the pressure we put on ourselves without pressure from others.

Stitchosaurus · 23/01/2015 08:55

Mine is 3.3 and will still occasionally have some milk in a bottle in the morning! As that's the only time and it's only a few ounces of milk, I'm not bothered. I think it's one of these rules that is pushed to get to the parents who give sugary drinks in bottles all day long.

I really wouldn't be worried at all at 13 months

loudarts · 23/01/2015 09:01

I moved to sippy cups at 6 months and all bottles went in the bin at 7 months, this was the advice when I had my pfb so followed it with the rest

bettyboop1970 · 23/01/2015 09:04

Sippy cup in the day from 6months and ditched night time bottle at 2.

dodi1978 · 23/01/2015 09:15

We just got rid of DS' at 17 months. He only had a bedtime bottle in the end and took it lying down in the cot.

One day we just gave him his milk in a closed cup and that was it. He took it and we never looked back. Bottles are going up in the loft on the weekend, plus sterilizer (yeah!).

I think we could have done it earlier, but he looked some comfortable with his bottle... he wouldn't have be ready at one year though.

Thumbwitch · 23/01/2015 09:18

DS1, probably around 20mo.
DS2 - still has morning and night time bottle of milk, and he's 2.3 - he refuses to drink milk out of anything else. He will drink water out of anything (but prefers his spouted cup) but milk has to be in the bottle or he gets angry and refuses to touch it.

cinnamongirl1976 · 23/01/2015 09:22

My DD is 2 and I am trying to ditch the bottle but she refuses to drink milk out of anything else and has started waking early as a result.

At 13 months, I really wouldn't worry at all!

I'm not worried about the dental thing - DD has her teeth cleaned after her bottle and only drinks milk in it anyway (the only other drink she has is water, from a cup - never squash/juice). Not worried about speech either as we've already been told she's quite advanced in that area.

Bearing all that in mind I'm not sure why it's such a big concern and I am actually considering bringing the bottle back so that I can have my 7am starts again!

GotToBeInItToWinIt · 23/01/2015 09:25

We're having the exact same issue at 14 months OP. She will drink water out of anything (even the bath ) but will only drink milk out of the bottle! I've been giving her milk after lunch in a cup (tried 4 different types!) with the view that if she's thirsty she'll drink it. She doesn't, the is grumpy for the rest of the afternoon. A bit stuck for ideas here too! She's very very stubborn.

funnyossity · 23/01/2015 09:32

The final evening bottle at about 3.

Only1scoop · 23/01/2015 09:34

During the day by 12 months dd had a bottle before bed until around 14 months.

Only1scoop · 23/01/2015 09:36

I remember opening cupboards and having about 20 different types of cups that we tried. Always went back to the simple one with the fold away spout.

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Missymum6 · 23/01/2015 09:41

Thanks so much for replying all of you! I now no not to worry about this :D I think I've brought every cup, beaker, ect possible maybe she just isn't ready yet. But she will drink out of a straw if I give her those baby apple juice cartons but that lasts for about 2 seconds before she has it in a death grip and there is juice everywhere lol!

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Missymum6 · 23/01/2015 09:42

Or maybe I'm not trying enough with 1 type of cup?

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IDontWantToBuildASnowman · 23/01/2015 11:59

Both of mine were well past 2yrs. They only had a before bed bottle for quite a lot of the last year though. They are now 5 and 3 with perfect teeth and speech. They loved that bottle as it represented so much to them, I certainly wouldn't have taken that pleasure from them. They still enjoyed water in a cup or sports bottle type of thing, but simply refused the milk in anything but a bottle.

wigglesrock · 23/01/2015 12:52

My first two children by the time they were 18 months. My third, she was just short of 3 years 4 months. She took so much comfort from her last bottle, she didn't sleep with it, she brushed her teeth after. She drank water from open cups without a bother but her bottle at bedtime was her favourite thing in the whole world .

Lozzapops · 23/01/2015 14:18

My daughter always had water from a sippy cup, milk from a bottle. We decided to try and get rid of the bottles for milk (morning and night) when she turned a year, but she wasn't having any of it. We more recently (14 months) tried a different cup, and found that she was willing to drink her milk from it. It is a Nuby "grip n sip", which has a fairly rubbery spout, so it isn't too big a change from the bottle. Have since tried getting her to take the milk from a standard tommee tippee zippy cup, and she won't even entertain the idea.

GotToBeInItToWinIt · 23/01/2015 14:52

Lozza I have just (in the last half hour) tried that Nuby one, I had high hopes for it... Not no . She threw it on the floor in disgust!

GotToBeInItToWinIt · 23/01/2015 14:53

Also, mine doesn't sleep with her bottle (she would just play around and pour it all over herself and her cot) and we brush her teeth after her milk and in the morning so it can't be doing too much damage can it?? That's what I tell myself anyway!

ProfessorPickles · 23/01/2015 14:55

DS was 13 months old.
I think introducing a beaker in the day time with meals would be a good start and then eventually give a non spill beaker of warm milk on an evening before bed
The Tommee Tippee ones are good and have a soft teat ish one so should be good

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