Bottles?

[Petals000]

My dd is 19 months and I'm just wondering how many bottles your child was still having at that age? At the moment it's one in the morning and one at night but I've heard by now she should only be having one at night?

None. I gave milk in a cup from 1 year and she stopped waking for milk over night at about 13/14 months.

Day time bottles should be stopped at 12 months.

Mine had milk in a cup before bed. Bottles were gone at 12 months

She has her milk then just sleeps till the morning, is it a problem then really? She has water and normal milk through the day, and then her bottle at night seems like the only thing to get her relaxed and off to sleep

It’s up to the baby. If you were breastfeeding then people wouldn’t be telling you on here to stop. Maybe put it in a sippy cup instead. But I don’t see the problem

At that age DS would still drink his milk from a bottle in the morning and night. I didn't see the problem with it really. I breastfed him for a lot longer so didnt see a problem with bottles too.

14 months and has one morning and night yet sleeps through, so that may disprove a link between bottles and night wakings.

I fully intend on keeping bedtime bottle until she’s old enough to understand the bottle fairy concept. I have no intention of messing with something that’s working, she doesn’t have a dummy and if I were breastfeeding then I’d surely be still giving her bedtime milk anyway.

I know a paediatric registar who told me that a bottle a night is waaaaay down on the list of things that you ‘shouldn’t’ be doing.