rock'ard parents; AP parents... i want all sides comments pls... cant see wood for trees

[NappiesGalore]

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all 3 ds's (15m, 2.10 and 3.11) go to sleep sucking on a bottle in bed. they each have a spare and if they wake in the night, they generally find it themselves and go back to sleep that way (with exceptionof littlest who rattles about whinging till we plonk it in his mouth for him)

i know its bad for their teeth and its a crutch and it means they wee at night more etc etc BUT t works and they sleep and they go to bed without a fuss at bedtime and boy am i attached to that.

i never intended for anyone to have a bottle past te age of 12m. and they were bf to 5, 6 and 8m respectively, so bottles should only have featured for sucha short time... (relevent? doubt it)

but theyre all so attached to their bottles now and i know that stopping it will be met with much upset. also, ds2 in partic is v attached to his bottle and whenever he is tired/hurt/upset in the day, he wails for a 'milky drink' and then is nstantly happy when e has one.

we are moving from guest accom to our own house again in about a month or less after a yea of building work... so a big change for them coming up

should i make a no more botles in the new house rule? or try to phase them out? (been tried and failed a number of times) or should i just not rock the boat and theyll stop when theyre ready?

also note ds1 voluntarily had his firs nappy free night the other night, successfully, so... am i making an issue out of notheing??

lol. dp tried the same thing earlier...

You want the sippy cups with pour out spout and a flip top lid

and intensive training in flip top closing

we still have the occasional disaster with ours - this week:

ds "I think my nappy has leaked"

he was wet from the neck down, so I am guessing flip top lid failure or else giant tsunami wee

oo-er. if its not one thing its another, eh?>

actually i broached subject with ds1 this morn. did big background build up, describing his new room and all th fab bits he'll love (like cloud wallpaper - hes easily pleased) and how he'll be nearly 4 by then and ds2 will be nearly 3 etc... and thats BIG... and therell be no more bottles leading quickly into discussion of what kind of great fun sport bottle or cup to use instead... he seemed to go for it. just have to keep talking about it now, at happy times (never when hes in a mood, and never to try to cheer him up, oh no) andf then by time we move he'll be well up for it.
fingers crossed eh