Stopping bottle

[lancslass17]

Hi,
My son is 2 years 8 months and has a bottle of milk at bedtime, I have 2 questions

What age did you stop bottle at bedtime?

What do you move onto ( I've offered all kinds of cups of milk and he won't touch them)

Thanks

I showed DD that the bottles were gone and she could have it in an anyway you cup or not at all.

She loved her bottles and was cross about it but drank the milk.

It's fine if he refuses altogether.

Other option is to start watering down the milk, start 50:50 and increase each week!

12 months. Like the NHS and medical professionals rightly advise

About 13 months. I

If he's nearly 3, if he does want the milk he doesn't need to have it. Give him a few days with a cup and he might decide a cup of milk is preferable to no milk.

We stopped at 18 months, a little later than we had planned but she took ages to learn how to use a free flow sippy cup and wouldn't drink milk from her munchkin 360.

As soon as she could confidently use a sippy cup we just got rid of the bottle and offered her milk in a cup. She didn't bat an eyelid. We give milk downstairs after tea rather than bedtime and have done since she was a year old.

12 months day time and 13/14 months when she had her last over night bottle. We didn’t swap it with anything - just made sure she had enough calcium in her diet.

Children don’t need to drink milk. Your son needs 350mg of calcium - he can get this from milk in food, cheese, yoghurt, fortified cereals and bread and plant milk.

20 months with DC1, 12 months with DC’s 2 and 3.
With DC1 I just told her she was a big girl now so didn’t need a bottle any more. She didn’t really drink much milk after that as she didn’t like it from other cups but it didn’t matter as she had a good diet.

Cut holes in the teats, small at first then increase... oh dear bottles have worn out and a new cup will be better!

11 months here .. both my babies shunned bottles 😂 we use the Munchkin weighted straw cups. With my first, I thought sucking a straw was perhaps not dissimilar to sucking a bottle?! Probably none sense but it worked! Also the weighted straw meant when she tipped it up like a bottle, milk still comes out.

My youngest is the worlds most adaptable baby, drinks from anything since 6 months. Not always successfully but gives it a go!

I think the earlier you do some of these things, the easier.. loosing the dummy with my almost 3 year old was such a challenge! At your sons age, I think I’d go with the whole ‘you are not a baby anymore, bottles are for babies. We are going to post them to another baby. None of your friends have bottles anymore’ .. that kinda thing. Offer milk in a regular plastic cup and don’t make a fuss. If he wants it, then great. If not, that’s OK either. My 3 year old is hit & miss with milk at bedtime. Sometimes prefers water. Always has a big drink of milk in the morning though. And lots of cheese, yoghurts etc

Is there a baby you know you can get him to 'give' the bottles to now he's a big boy? And get him a special big boy beaker.

I was the same with giving up the dummy. I worked myself right up and and it turns out ds wasn't half as bothered as I was!

12 months . They had mil in a cup before brushing teeth after that.