Bottle weaning

[LadyDea]

Hello, I have tried to wean my grandson off the bottle slowly but it's not going good!! He started to make himself sick, so now he has gone down to sleep with half a bottle of milk. That's all he has during the day and a full bottle at night. He doesn't have a dummy only his bottle to go to sleep with. I have tried water in the bottle too. He is 15 months old, any advice?

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Why do you need to wean him off the bottle? Brush his teeth afterwards and let him keep it?

Same as PP. Let him keep it

So is he making himself sick as he wants the milk and then he has the bottle in the cot with him to go to sleep? Or are you giving him his bottle before his bed? Sorry probably just me not understanding

My DS was poorly one night ( he was 13 months) and was coughing so much he was being sick, so we couldn't give him milk as that was making him sick, then he would bring up his tea as well. So we just stopped. We started letting him have his supper in the living room , so a different routine worked a dream for us , if maybe that may be an option to try

Does he have porridge or anything for supper ?

I thought that stopping the bottle was more for their teeth, as everyone and the HV kept saying to me after 12 months the bottle must stop. I'm first time mum and people tell you so much stuff you " need " to be doing

He is still having his bottle, he has it at night in his cot. However I am now only half filling it. He only has them to go to sleep with!! I know this is bad but he was in foster care before he came to me, so I'm trying to break the going to bed on the bottle!! He doesn't have a dummy.
He was on about 4 bottles a day when he first came to me, that was about 4 months ago, so I'm am getting there.

I suppose the only issue here is his teeth. My dd only had 4 at this age so I wouldn't have been too concerned. It sounds like he's had a tough start so I would be tempted to leave it for now, maybe very gradually reduce the amounts? With ds we started giving him his bottle downstairs , then letting him finish it upstairs, then gradually taking less and less upstairs. He was younger but this might work?

My twins are two and still have a bedtime bottle. We clean their teeth afterwards, so I don’t really see the problem! Take it at his pace - he’s still only little.

Does he drink from a beaker at all? I know when I stopped bf after one, my ds took a small beaker of milk after breakfast and then when weaning off bottle at bedtime shortly afterwards I started giving a few ounces in beaker downstairs first and gradually increased it so it was all in the beaker upstairs before bed. Done in a few days but it was his one and only bottle so no huge attachment.