How to stop a screaming toddler for milk first thing.

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Hi, just looking for some advice.

Every morning my daughter who is 17 months old screams the house down around 5.30am for milk. My husband gets her out of her cot and puts her in our bed whilst he gets her milk, she continues to scream really loudly and nothing will settle her until she has her milk. It’s such an awful way for us all to wake up. Does anyone have any suggestions on what we can do to either drop this last bottle or at least delay this so she is not screaming as soon as she wakes up for milk. Thank you in advance :)

Die she go back to sleep after this? If not I'd probably take her with me to get the milk, and give her cold milk and a snack while waiting for the milk to warm up, as I'd think she was really hungry. I'd also stop giving the warm milk in a bottle.

Prepare her milk? What does that involve?
I'd get her onto cold cows milk at that age, so it takes about 30 seconds from her waking to her getting milk. Or is there something else pretty instantaneous you can giver her at that time?

Hi, she doesn’t go back to sleep once she’s had it she’s fully awake. I have tried giving her a snack but she only wants her milk. I’ll try the cold milk and see what happens thank you :)

She's 17months! Chuck the bottles out for starters. Use a cup and delay it 10 minutes every day. Cold cows milk in a flask next to your bed so you can do it quickly and go back to bed.

This is the only bottle she has she uses cups for everything else. I’ve tried giving her the milk in a cup and the screaming continues. We have waited out 30 minutes before when we gave her a cup with milk it didn’t work……

At 17 months I just wouldn't give it to her. I'd be bright and breezy (through gritted teeth) and just get on with the morning. She can have a scream about it until her porridge and a cup of cold milk is on the table for her, or whatever she's having for breakfast. She's not a little baby anymore so probably time to give her that nudge into the next step of toddlerhood. She'll stop with the screaming soon enough and then you can work on the early wakings. I'd also give her something for supper before bed, porridge or weetabix with banana mashed in is good for filling them up before bed.

Oh I feel you I had one just like that. What about using a thermos flask and heating milk before going to bed. That way you could keep the flask on the bottle in your room and all your husband would have to do is pour it out which presumably would reduce the screaming time. If you want to knock the milk on the head then I would consider taking a banana upstairs with you at bedtime and offering her that as soon as she wakes.
At only a year and a half I personally would consider a wake up at 5:00 to 6:00 a.m. as a night waking rather than as them getting up for the day. (Edit:) With my early waker doing this consistently led to him sometimes going back to sleep but at least once he'd eaten something first thing he would play quietly rather than require full engagement from us. Now he's older and in school he is sleeping later in the morning but he's still an absolute mardy bum from the moment he wakes up until he has a.) had a wee and b.) eaten something.