How to stop milk before naps

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My DD has just tuned 1. Up until 10 months she was BF and then refused it (because my dr gave me the wrong pill so my supply dried up) so was FF from then.

Atm she has 50/50 cows milk and FM in a bottle before her nap and before bed

I want to move her away from the sleep association and move onto a cup- first with a straw then an open cup but I don't know how to start.

Any advice? What do you do with your kids before naps/sleeps?

She mostly dosent fall asleep on the bottle but occasionally does: it's deff a sleep cue for her though

We do this occasionally at 18m still. The association is starting to wane, so I’m hoping it will just happen naturally.

the nap tended to be straight after lunch at this age so the baby was full enough to put to sleep- and for bed time we kept the bottle until 3yrs old. Honestly i never cared as all other drinks were in a cup, never had a dummy and it was just something my children liked.

She's on one nap a day atm. Dropped to one a while ago weirdly. So she naps 11-1ish... sometimes more sometimes less.
My husbands a dentist and I'm a dental nurse so we know we should ditch the night time one but I just love it

We reduced nap milk amount down slowly, and then started offering water when she got to the end of milk and wanted more. Just kept going until it was just water on offer, and then eventfully she didn't want it.

She's 2.5 and still has milk from a cup before bed.

@summerlovingvibes the waters a good idea. Out of interest do you do teeth before or after the milk? I'm worried by going to brush her teeth she'll stop being tired and be wired again

I know what the dentist advice is and saw in your OP that you and your husband are in the dental field .... so my official reply to you would be "of course we brush after milk dentist!" But in reality no we don't. Sometimes we do and sometimes we do it before , but our daughter is good at getting in to bed and falling asleep - we dont need her to be drowsy from milk so technically we could do it after milk every time. We just don't in the real world 😂