taking away bottle at night

[kittypants]

my ds is 13 months.he falls to sleep with bottle in mouth and wakes constantly in night for it. so it has to go!any advice from anyone would be fantastic as i know the next few days are going to be hard!!!

Is it milk in the bottle? I remember seeing some baby programme a while back where the advised watering down the milk until the baby no longer was interested.

Oh my god, this was me 3 weeks ago! my dd 2.4 yrs, i was constantly filling her bottles through out the night, then changing her whole bed as she'd weeed so much. I went cold turkey one morning as she had her through the day constanly too, and put her to bed that night and she screamed and screamed but eventually went to sleep, she woke twice more and each time took a long time to settle. The next night was pretty much the same, and the 3rd night she went to bed without a peep, now she sleeps soundly every night and if she does wake she cries for a bit but just goes back to sleep, and now she dry at night too!
good luck it will be hard for a couple of night but they soon get the idea!

thankyou!its nice to hear from someone whos been there!i cant remember my older 2 doing it!!but they never slept till about 3 and 4y/o!was there just lots of screaming?weve been doing pick up put down but bottle seems just to be in the way of any hope of sleep!

sorry 3xamum,didnt mean to ignore you!yes milk.could try water,i dont know what to do for best!?

I found if i kept going in to her it made her worse so I just left her to scream it out. Oh and I worned my neighbours!
good luck, its worth it for baby and you

no worries kittypants, let me know how you get on cos my DS2 is the same age & although he doesn't fall asleep with the bottle I can't imagine the day when he gives up the night feed!

Milk guzzling monster that he is

thankyou both!

well we did it!we did pu/pd and no milk!.after his bath,massage,story,milk-but in beaker not bottle as decided no more milk upstairs in night!it took 20 minutes for him to go to sleep atfirst,with me doing pu/pd and whispering to him to comfort him but wasnt as bad as i thought it would be(although maybe it'll be worse tonight!).then he slept till 2am so same again but not for so long(no clock!),then 3am just hand on back whispering ssshh its ok youre just going to sleep,its sleepy time,took about 5 minutes,then same at 5am then up for day at 5.45am which i thought was fair enough for first night with no milk !im going to try doing 15 minutes more upstairs each day.im unsure of naps though,do i let him have bottle for naps or is that confusing letting him go sleep with it in day but not night?