18 month old still wants an early morning bottle!!

[s2391]

Hi,

I have an 18 month old, who has a bedtime bottle which is 7-8oz the. he wakes up everyday between 5-6am for a bottle, I give him 5-6oz and he always finishes it. Is this normal, or do I need to put a stop to it, I need advice!!!

I have two kids aged 5 and 6, they both have warm milk in the morning. Only the 5 year old still has it at night. I don't see it as being harmful, good for calcium intake! Look at it that way.

My almost 3 year old still does this. I don't mind, I'm sure I 'should' put a stop to it but I don't think it does any harm really!

Milk in a cup from that age.

My nearly 3 year old also has a bottle first thing. (I make him wait until 7am though. He's a little older so I can make him stay in his room until 7)

I don't mind. Noone else sees this. It's once a day and the dentist says his teeth are fine. It will involve lots of screaming for us if we suddenly stop.

When my eldest hit 4, he understood that "big boys can't have bottles, once they get to 4" and it was an easy end for him to stop them.

My 22 month old still has milk in the morning and before bed especially the bedtime one if he didn't eat much of his dinner, but they are in a cup/sippy cup now, I've put all the bottles away.

My 14 month old was having an early morning bottle until last week. I swapped the bottle of formula for a sippy cup of warmed whole milk and she didn’t make any protest, just drank most of it. I thought she would protest or not drink it but she did. Have you tried swapping it?

I give DS milk if he gets up before 6.30 or so, otherwise it's a long wait until breakfast. It's not consistent though

My 22 month still has a bottle at night. He goes straight to sleep and has slept through since around 10 months so I'm not tempting fate anytime soon! A sippy cup would do the same; I am conscious of teeth though so it definitely won't be forever. He gets 4oz of milk in his sippy cup in the mornings if he asks for it, none if he doesn't.

Do you mean he goes back to sleep after this bottle?

DD still had milk at that age, but it was served in a sippy cup from 12 months.

Fairly normal I think. I only stopped morning bf at 18 months. Ds had a bottle until 24 months and then a cup. He would never use a sippy cup, he hated them.

A bedtime bottle is very bad for teeth.

I would prioritise stopping that over the morning milk (unless you're brushing DS's teeth after the bottle).

Aged 3/4 my DDs would often still have a drink of milk when they got up in the morning.