Stopping the Bed Time Bottle

[Janbo25]

My DS is 20 Months old and as quite a good bedtime routine, he baths about 6.45 then straight to bed where we read him a story and then he has his bottle and thats him for the night.
We think his bottle has become more of an habit for sleep for him now becase it is impossible to get him to go to sleep without his milk at home even during the day although if we are out in his pram or he is at nursery then he doesn't have his milk.
His milk is also a great tool for us in the night if for any reason he does wake up during the night we can just give him another bottle and then back in bed no problems, however we feel it is now probably time we address this problem.
What, When & How? are my question just how should I go about it??

I changed DS bottle into one of the new tommy tippee sports cups with a soft straw ype thing - and he hated it - after about a week I've just been putting water in it because there was never any milk drunk. I give him a cup of milk before bed but only water in bed.

Sorry is this incomreheible - got vodka head anfd fingers. Night Nihght

Janbo,

I just stopped giving it. He asked for it for a few nights, but at 16 months understood that there was a cup of milk or water on offer before bed and that was it.

He was pretty attached to his bedtime bottle, so I thought it would be a nightmare. TBH, he barely even noticed.

Give it a bash.

we have the tommee tippee things to I might give that a try because we have tried just stopping it completley and had absolutely no luck what so ever he is up banging the door down!! so will try his cup and if he still drinks the milk from that then keep watering it down

I have tonight put him to bed with his tommee tippee cup the one with the straw and he went down fine with that, he wasn't drinking it when I left him so I will check on him shortly to see whether he he just left it or not

hope it went ok - I was convinced that Griff wouldn't sleep if he didn't have his betime milk - but he does! Oh dear to vodka fingers!!!

well last night we tried him without any milk at all and he went down fine not even a murmur however as I type he is screaming tonight so not sure what the best thing to do is!

Is it the bottle that you want to stop or the milk? I was more worried about him having a bottle than the fact he was drinking milk, so was happy for milk in cup or beaker-thingy.

If I've learn't anything at all from mumsnet its do what makes YOUR life easier, and if a drink of milk will let him sleep and let you have a quiet nigh then the milk wins everytime in my book.

not sure if this already suggested but what we started was "suppertime". we have a big boy cup which is small cup/mug of warm milk with a biscuit before bedtime but at the dinner table with mummy/dad or in his room reading a story then its toothbrush time and off to be. the first few days transition were smoothed by a bottle with water in with him in the bed which let him have a suck but he wasnt overly interested in

I know this will grate against some on here but my dd had a nighttime milk bottle til she was three.
As her third birthday was coming up we built up and built up saying how she would be a big girl and not have a bottle after she was 3. She got up on her third birthday and put her bottle in the bin and from that day took a cup of water. No hassle, no tantrums.

my dd is 2 soon and very attached to her bottle, she goes to bed with a bottle of milk and a botle of juice. she's not thirsty is a comfort thing. But now she is potty trained in the day she is waking all night for a wee. Dont know what to do?!

thats what I don't want to happen you see Mazz thats why I was wanting to stop the milk altogether at night what are others suggestions?