Ok, My daugther is 21 months and still takes her bottle. She doesn't take a pacifier or has any other vices. She loves her bottle but I fear she is a little too old to have one. Plus she has been taking the lids off lately and spilling everywhere. She takes lids of the sippy cups too. I am looking for advice to wean her. Cold turkey?
I wouldn't worry about it but that's me, J stayed on the bottle at nap time and bed time, in my lap, in the rocker, because I wanted that close time before he got too big. He never took it to bed and kept it in his mouth all night.
He just came up to me one day and said here...he was already using a tippy cup any time he wanted something to drink. It was really easy, and he hasn't wanted one since. He was about 2 1/2.
I would go cold turkey. I like the suggestioins below with talking to them and having them be a part of getting rid of them.
When I transitioned both my kids to sippys, I started them on the Nuby sippy cups. They are cheaper than most and have a narrower gripping area so it's similar to a bottle feel and they have a silicone rubber top for them to drink out of. It was similar enough that it wasn't a huge change but it was enough of a change to get rid of the bottle. Within a week or 2 of using those I introduced the first years plastic disposable type sippys and thats what they use now.
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What I did was to stop using the bottles at all during the day. My son really liked his last "before bed" bottle. Once you have her using the sippys during the day (get ones that have screw on lids so you can REALLY tighten them) pick a night and just give her a sippy for that last nighttime milk. My son didn't even flinch. Turns out it was ME that was afraid to ditch the bottles! LOL
Yep. Cold turkey for sure. She's way too old for a bottle. You could get her the soft nippled sippy cups to transition or just let her pick out some cute princess ones or whatever she wants and have her throw her own bottles in the trash and make it a "big girl" event with lots of smiling and clapping and "yeah for you" kind of stuff. The kicker? REALLY DO throw them out so you aren't tempted to cave in if she starts crying for one later on. Sad thing is, we moms and dads create most of these bad habits for our babies. Good luck.
GO COLD TURKEY!!!!
Neither of our children were allowed to have a bottle after their first birthday. In fact, our daughter had to be off the bottle before advancing to the next class at day care (that saved us considerable amounts of money each week).
Our kids didn't like sippy cups when they had the bottle option. But, when the option was taken away, they adjusted very well.
We had several different options and found which was preferred - then we bought multiples of that.
Good luck!
My daughter took her bottle until she was like 2 1/2 I think. I decided it was time to stop the ba ba, so I chose a day and about a week before I started telling her things like "okay big girls don't do ba ba's anymore. You want to be a big girl right?" And she'd say "yes ma ma", so then I'd say "okay the trash man is gonna come a take away your ba ba's so that you can be a BIG GIRL!" And then I gave her an incentive or something to look forward to if she let the "trash man" take her ba ba's, like a trip to the store for a new toy or a new project/craft to do with mommy. Then I got a trash bag and let her toss in all her ba ba's. And then we put it in the trash for the trash man. She continued to ask me for one for about 3 days I think, and I just reminded her what we did and why we did it. And then offered her a sippy cup instead. After the three days she just stopped asking! So that's what we did. Hope this helps and good luck!
Well I didn't deal with this with the bottle but my son started this thing of wanting to be the baby and have me hold his last sippy cup of milk at night toward the end of my second pregnancy. I knew when the new baby came, this would be problematic. So we had a talk with him about what a big boy he was and that big boys hold their own drinks. We did a little ceremony to say bye bye to the baby. I held his cup one last night for him and then we waved bye bye to the baby. It worked perfectly, when he asked another time we just reminded him that we had said bye bye to the baby. Maybe you could try that with the bottle. Talk to her about what a grown up little girl she is and then after her last bottle just wave bye bye to the bottle and put it up somewhere. Good luck!!
just put small amounts in a cup . maybe she ust wants a big girl cup? my daughter drank out of an open top cup earlier than that. Make her sit at the table and drink, they dont need to walk around with a cup all day long. then at nap and bedtime if she takes a bottle for comfort then whocares. she isnt going tobe on a bottle at 10
Be like Nike and just do it! Cold turkey all the way.
Make sure you literally get rid of every single bottle in the house or you may cave in if she throws a tantrum. If they are no longer there, they cannot be used. Throw them in the garbage or put them in a box and tape them up. You may have a day or two where she's exceptionally distraught, but she'll get over it. It's a bottle; it's not like we're chopping off a limb! Besides, kids are usually more resilient than what we give them credit for so this might not even be an issue.
I had the same ceremony as Mandy W. Had the big girl talk and let her toss the bottles in the trash. My husband took the trash out where she could see that the bottles were actually going bye bye. Much to my suprise, it worked.
