Help needed.. night weaning 19 month toddler off bottle

[squashie34]

Pretty much this really.

I'm at my wits end- my little girl hasn't slept through since the 4 month sleep regression hit. She wakes twice a night and has to have a bottle to go back down. I know it's habit and can't be true hunger but when I'm working full time I've just gone with whatever gets her back down quickest (i know I've made a rod for my own back). I've tried water but she just shouts 'MILK'

I'm desperate for her to sleep through and know I need to work at it. I wondered if anyone could give me some tips on how they successfully night weaned their toddlers off mid-night bottles?

Thanks!

Have you got any Annual Leave coming up? I'd try and crack it then if you can.

Yes a couple of weeks off at Easter!

I'd go for it then. Dump the bottles completely and offer water instead. Once my DD realised milk wasn't on offer, she slept through.

You can always dump the bottles now and offer a cup of water instead of you prefer. Some people like to start watering down the milk as well.

Hey, my ds is 19 months and I weaned him off milk in the night about 2 months ago. It had become ridiculous and he was having 4 bottles a night to make him sleep!! So excessive. I'd tried to cut it out before and it caused hell and he would not sleep!

When I tried again this time he was obviously more ready as he was happier to just take his dummy! I think the best way is to scrap it completely and fight through the week of terrible nights getting up every 5 minutes to go and calm them down when they want the milk!

They will get over it and now he sleeps practically all night for the first time in his life 😊

Another idea would be to cut down by an ounce every night until you're at 0!

@lalabun thank you so much for telling me this, it gives me hope I can't crack it!!