Milk for morning and bedtime

[MeganLH01]

Just wondering. My son is almost at 18 months and I let him drink from the cheap tesco bottles (i think for babies/infants) for morning and night feeds to fill him up for the day/night. Is this wrong since he is nearly two. If so what bottle do you recommend that he can drink from as this bottle that he uses suits him as he drinks it all.

(It's warm today that's why he's not dressed)

Maybe try a sippy cup instead of a bottle?

HV was always on at us about DD drinking from a bottle (teeth, development) but I was paranoid she wouldn’t sleep well without a good amount of milk in her. As it was, just before she was 2, we had a night with only one bottle washed up which her 3m brother had to have for obvious reasons. So we gave her her normal water cup with milk in. Zero issues, and tbh I feel a bit silly for not thinking she’d adapt!

What does he usually have water out of? I’d give it a go and if it’s a drama just try again in a couple of months.

It's more the bottle that I'm worried about. He sometimes sleeps through but idk what type of bottle he could drink out of

Do you have any sippy cups that you could recommend?

Sippy cup or sitting at a table with an open cup.

It looks like there is a lot of milk in there. I would worry he fills up on milk at breakfast time and doesn’t eat enough food to have a balanced breakfast.

Mine uses these if we need a
lidded option. He’s used since around 10 months for water or milk.

https://www.naturalbabyshower.co.uk/products/liewood-ellis-sippy-cup-safari-sandy-mix

But generally an open cup from 18 months. Just a small cup of milk with breakfast. They don’t need to be downing gallons of milk before bed at this age.
Ds toilet trained just gone 2 years, I don’t think he would have if he was drinking those size amounts of milk before bed

He wakes up about 7:30AM. I then give him toast with butter. Since he throws that to the floor. I give him weetabix so he's had a good decent amount of food. Plus a lot of the time he likes to throw his food onto the floor and even at dinner, he doesn't eat all of his food that's why there's a lot in his bottle

The problem is it’s sort of a vicious cycle - give more milk, the more they reject food. The more they reject food, the more they gulp the milk. I’d be inclined to move to a sippy cup.. if he doesn’t drink as much milk he’ll soon be hungry enough for toast and cereal at breakfast. Hard when you’re worried about their intake though I know :(

I never mentioned about toilet training as I don't feel like he would be ready as he is barely 18 months. I don't know what I am doing wrong as every morning plus night he is drinking loads of milk and I feed him throughout the day

Honestly?

Despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth you'll get on here- don't worry. He really is still only a little baby at 18 months. He will be absolutely fine. Two bottles a day won't fuck up his teeth or anything else. Go easy on yourself. You've got another 6+ months to crack it.

He's absolutely beautiful by the way.

Yeah I know :( I looked it up but apparently from 12 - 24 months they're supposed to be having 16 - 24oz of full fat milk. My son probably takes 16 - 18oz a day. Which is about 2 cups of milk. Do you recommend any sippy cups? I do give him water/dilated juice so he's hydrated throughout the day.

Ok thank you 😊

My littles ones got on well with the the 360 sippy cups. Loads of companies do them, we used Munchkin.

Thank you so much, I've just seen this now. It's so hard to be a mother but thank you for understanding

Personally I'd stop the morning bottle. It might take him a while to adjust to having to eat rather than drink the milk to full him up but at the moment, there's no incentive to eat.