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2 year old dd still has a bottle of water in bed at night

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enid · 09/11/2004 15:35

Is that bad? I somehow feel I should take it away - she's very addicted to it and wakes up in the night for it to be refilled very occasionally. Have had a few comments from family that she is too old for a bottle and I don't really know what to think.

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enid · 09/11/2004 15:35

Just to add that she drinks from a cup quite happily during the day.

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nailpolish · 09/11/2004 15:36

ignore comments.

its your dd!

nailpolish · 09/11/2004 15:37

sorry! should be

shes your dd

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SoupDragon · 09/11/2004 15:40

Ignore them. DS2 is 3.75 and has an Avent Magic Cup of water in bed with him. Doesn't leak like a bottle would!

marialuisa · 09/11/2004 16:00

DD is 3.5y and still has an Anyway-up cup for water at night/first thing in the morning. she prefers to drink lying down.

obviously if your DD was having coke in a bottle it would be a different story

LIZS · 09/11/2004 16:03

Agree with the others - don't think it matters unless it matters to you. Both mine (6 and 3) have anyway up cups of water for bed, but don't always use it.

popsycal · 09/11/2004 16:03

dont think it is a probelm if it is water...

Issymum · 09/11/2004 16:06

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codswallop · 09/11/2004 16:13

my mum woudl say "its hardly the sahara is it"!!

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enid · 09/11/2004 16:14

Issymum thats what dd2 does, she chucks it out and then moans for more water. Or she tucks it right down round her toes and wiggles underneath to get it. The funniest thing is when you go back in to give it to her, she is buried under the duvet and a little hand shoots out and grabs it and pulls it away under the duvet

Phew I won't worry anymore. I guess once she's in a big bed she can have a cup, we'll do it like that. God forbid we should lose this bottle though, its a French one with a hole in the middle to make a handle and she won't have any other one - tried an Avent one once and she was most affronted!

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Cranberry · 09/11/2004 16:27

My DS is nearly 3 and has an Avent Magid Cup of water in bed with him too. He's always really thirsty when he wakes up and it saves me getting up at 5/6 to get him a drink!

cas73 · 09/11/2004 16:33

My dd used to have a bottle of water until she somehow managed to push in the teat and got her bed soaking!! She has a cup now instead.
I don't see how it could be bad. My mum and my dh both take a glass of water with them when go to bed, so why should a toddler be different?

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smellymelly · 09/11/2004 16:35

Ds has just started asking for water at night, she always has a cough so it helps (age 2) but I was wondering about when we potty train her, will it be more difficult at night if she has water available??

smellymelly · 09/11/2004 16:36

Bugger - not ds, dd.

Wallace · 09/11/2004 20:02

Ds and dd (5 and 3) both have a leak proof cup at night with water. It has caused no problems potty training, but I did leave them both until they were definately ready - always dry nappies overnight. Ds was coming up for 4, and dd wasn't yet 3 when they were dry at night.

SoupDragon · 09/11/2004 20:03

smellymelly, made no difference to DS1 or 2. Like Wallace we left it until there were consistently dry nappies overnight, Both were dry at night at around 3.75 and still had water available in bed.

Twiglett · 09/11/2004 20:03

DS was still going to sleep with a bottle of milk at 3 and 3 months (when I finally successfully bribed him with a huge pressie to give it up)

I know why it bothers you but don't let it .. its really not a big issue in the scheme of things and if she's happy with it .. feck 'em

shalom · 09/11/2004 21:26

dd is 4.5yrs and she still has a cup (anyway up cup)before she goes to bed, sometimes inthe middle of the night and when she wakes up. i,ve tried to cut it down but she will keep on coming to my room and makes me get it. My consolation is that it is milk. Issymum what do you mean about cows milk causing tooth decay?

ernest · 10/11/2004 12:58

I always have a bottle of water by my bed, so so do my boys, why not? dh does too, in fact, everyone one I know takes a glass or bottle of wter to bed with them. can't see what the problem is.

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AuntyQuated · 10/11/2004 13:24

we all have water by our beds. me and dh in a glass. dd 8 and ds 5 in sports bottles.

sometimes it isn't touched, other nights it needs refilling

joash · 10/11/2004 13:44

My eldest still had a bottle to take to bed until she was almost four - wouldn't touch it at any other time and actually stopped drinking from bottles in the day time really early - at around 7 or 8 months. She just refused to use one, but always insisted on the bed one.
Don't worry about it. If your daughters happy and so are you - let her continue. Family ... love em but sod 'em. She's your daughter and you know her beter than anyone else.

binkie · 10/11/2004 13:54

What bit are you feeling (or being made to feel) wrong about, the bottle, or the water? If it's the bottle, then maybe you could try to shift onto an anywayup cup or even a sports bottle, some 2-yr-olds manage those with no difficulty. If it's the water, agree with others, ignore the comments. These days we're all being told to drink more water, and by letting your child have a drink by their bed you're helping that - as that way they won't learn to ignore the signs of thirst.

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enid · 10/11/2004 14:33

How weird! Last night dd2 was crying so I went in to see her and her bottle had leaked all over her sheets and precious pillow (that she doesn't use but likes to have in bed with her - toddlers eh). Anyway, I changed her bed, went to get her more water and she said 'no bottle, wet bottle, want orange cup' (her orange anyway up cup). So she doesn't have her bottle anymore!

Now I feel a bit sad that she doesnt have her bottle anymore .

I think I need to have another baby .

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