Info, tips and experience on weaning my dd off her bottle please...

[laneydaye]

Anything please ideas and tips....
dd is nearly 2 and im finding it difficult to get her off the bottle and yes her god damn dummy, i hear her in my sleep....dummy dummy dummy..
she wont take milk in a cup or juice bottle.
She eats plenty of yoghurts daily
She has milk on cereals.
She still has it morning and night.(got rid of the afternoon bottle.

Any ideas much appreciated..xx

There's another thread on this running so have a look at some of the points on that thread.

On the dummy thing - my lo is same age and we got rid of his nearly 3 mths ago and I'm afraid its cold turkey all the way!!! Its a tough first week but then it gets easier....I promise!!!

First of all I'd say she's still young.
But if you are detemined - tackle one thing at a time.
Dummy OR bottle, choose one to go first
And at this age I think its probably easiest to go cold turkey.

cheers... will try find the other thread..xx

My sister had her dd leave the dummy hanging on the Christmas tree for Santa to exchange for presents, her dd was about 1 yr 10months, this worked quite well. Her ds gave his to the fairies or something similar. The second idea may need a "wonderful" toy as an exchange as it's not quite impressive as Christmas presents. HTH

Got rid of Ds's bottle last Xmas - gave it to Santa. But he was 4. He used to hve one at night and maybe on in day if v. tired.

Didn't bother me - knew fine well he would have given up by uni and most probably by secondary!

but is there not an age when for dental reasons they should be taken away?
my dd has rather large teeth anyway and they are erm.... not protruding but a bit well...not sure if goofy is the right word.....

hope she never ever ever ever reads this
basically im worried that the dummy and bottle will make them worse..xx

Suspect if they have an ordinary teat bottle on hand all day every day it woudl be a problem for teeth bu tDS just had one a night (before bed) and one other.
And it was the Avent green tops on a normal bottle.

Doesn't seem to have done any harm.

Mind you my sis had bottles of tea with sugar all day every day - had just spent a fortune on braces althogh dentist assures her she has a funny cross-bite!

Re the bottle, I don't see what the problem is. Let her have it, she's still only a wee toot. My son only gave his up just before his wee brother was bron - i.e. when he was nearly 3. In the Netherlands where we live they say there is no hurry to take a child off a bottle. As long as its only milk and not juice he's drinking from it, and as long as he drinks and doesn't sit with it in his mouth all day there's no problem.

Re the dummy, I have a friend who tried EVERYTHINg....until another friend of ours gave us his top tip...and it has worked. What you do is to take the dummy and cut a bit off the end. She can still suck on it, but the trick is every couple of days to make it shorter and shorter. Eventually it becomes more hassle than its worth and they chuck it. It is important to make sure that you sterilise it well - we all used Milton solution.....

good luck

klara