Two Year Old and Bottle/binkie

The way that I got my daughter off of the bottle is i only let her have water in them, and milk in a sippy cup. It took a ouple of days but she started to drink the milk out of the sippy cup and no longer asked for the bottle.
B.
Mother of Mika 2 and Taya 2 months.

I've never done this before but I've heard it works. You pack up the bottles and/or pacifiers and tell your child that someone else had a baby and the new baby needs the bottles and pacifiers.

hi N.. my advice to you about the binkie is just to start giving it to her at naptime (if she still takes naps) and at bedtime. that's what i did for my little girl (who is now almost 3.5 years old). after like a week of doing that (or however long you are comfortable with it), cut it down, to just bedtime. i don't know if you read to your two year old before putting her to bed or do anything to distract her and let her forget about her binkie. keep one binkie handy for emergencies though!! i learned that the hard way hehe. this is what i did, so that's my advice for that. as for the bottle, i just explained to my daughter that bottles are for babies and she's not a baby anymore. it's a touchy subject for her, but, maybe if you sit down and explain it to her, it might work. let me know if this helps you in any way. i hope it does!! best of luck to you!!

Honestly I wouldn't stress it too much. There are kids that don't loose thier inborn need to suck until like 30 months...for some the urge is a lot stronger. Kids/babies are not one size fits all. She is doing well in daycare possibly because she knows that she can come home and suck...and it sounds like it is part time. Sucking actually releases endorphins in children...probably in adults too. Hence ciggy addicts (some like it because it involves thier mouth) and people that have to chew gum all the time or chew straws or toothpicks. It is proven that school children concentrate better if they can chew gum or chew on thier pencils. It is quite possible that if you take it away too soon she won't do as well in daycare. I too tried to get rid of my daughters nunny around 2. It was nothing but a struggle. I read about the 30 month marker and waited. She kicked it a lot more easily...and she wasn't stressed about it. She didn't even suck on it all the time...she'd chew on it with the side of her mouth. Especially if she was painting or coloring. She still will play with her tongue all goofy when she is concentrating like she needs to do something with her mouth. I retried this when she kicked it...I cut the tips off all of them, "Hmmm...the nunny monster must have come and bit the tops off. I guess you will have to use it like this." Even when she asked for a new one I got it...the next morn the tip had dissappeared??? She tried and eventually would just throw it aside. Give it until the 30 month mark is my suggestion. My daughter's habit honestly bothered others more than myself...who cares. Her teeth were not bothered by it either. Makes me wonder if kids are gonna get buck teeth they were prob gonna get them anyway. Ditto on the bottles. Children are a bit like pack animals when in groups. She goes with the crowd so to speak. Do you have something that you do at home that calms you and lets you wind down for the day? This may be it for her. Give her time. People try and rush thier kids too much.

One thing you could try is putting only water in bottles and milk/juice in sippy cups. I use those cheap ones from Walmart with the 3 slits in the top because they are the most like a bottle. Usually they'll chose the sippy over the water. Either that or water down the bottle of milk and not the cup of milk so the cup tastes better.
She's just working you because she can. They're amazingly smart and sly at that age. Maybe even try taking the cup from daycare home and only use that because for some reason all of the bottles disappeared :o)
I got rid of my daughter's pluggie when she turned 3. We brought it to Walmart and she could buy any Barbie she wanted but she had to pay for it with her pluggie. Worked like a charm. Needless to say, none of my other kids have them because they don't work well at night if the child cries because they can't find it and you have to go and hunt it down. She had 10 of them and still would lose them all.
Anyways, just do it cold turkey and she'll be just fine.
Best Wishes,
J.

cut the tips off of the binkies than thay will not give the satisfaction of sucking cuz there will be no suction as for the bottles just get then out of the house and dont give her any other option but what you want her to use, good luck

You just described my daughter to a "T"!

She is now 9, but the way we had to get rid of bottles was just that, get rid of ALL of them. (make sure none are hiding under the couch or anything because they WILL go into her mouth if she finds one!) I had my daughter "donate" her bottles to a baby that didn't have any. I also had the "you're a big girl now, not a baby" talk with her.

The binky took me a year to get rid of. That was SO much harder than the bottles. I limited her binky time to bed time. Only at naps and the long sleep, then only at the long sleep...then a few nights of "I don't know where it is help me find it" only IF she could find it could she have it, and after about a week of that I just didn't offer it anymore, and she never looked for it since she was used to not having it all day.

Good luck!! It's a long road with a lot of tears, but your daughters teeth will thank you for it!!

I had the same problem with my daughter!! I tried everything there was and one day my friend was over and said to her what do you have this for you are a big girl arent you? And he threw all of them away!! I almost panicked thinking she would throw a fit, but she totally forgot all about them after that!!!

I definitely agree -- you just need to remove the bottle and get rid of them. Since she is already drinking water (terrific) and juice from a cup, it won't be long until she drinks the milk. My son was drinking from a cup at about 15 months and handled it by himself. I limit the movement of the cup to the kitchen, unless he is drinking water, since I don't fear a little water getting spilled.

For the "binkie", both my daughter and son used one, but from the beginning I only used it for sleeping. At about about 15 months (or 18, I can't remember exactly), one a weekend, I simply cut the tip off the top of the pacifier. Both would take it, but soon realized it felt different. The next night I would trim a little more off.

For my daughter, it took about 3 days, and I only think I made about 2-3 trims to the tip. By the end she realized it wasn't the same so she didn't seem to want it, or if she took it, it was out of her month during the night. I think I threw them away within a couple days following the weekend, since she didn't really want it, or would hand it back.

My son, was faster since he wasn't really using it during his naps at daycare (so this helped), and I noticed he didn't really keep it in his month when he felt asleep (unlike my daughter). I trimmed it too, just to confirm he was really done with it and threw them away by the end of the weekend.

Neither kid resorted to sucking their thumb (thank goodness) and both got attached to a special blanket that was also kept in the crib/bed for sleeping time only. It could not be out of the bedroom.

good luck

N.,

Sometimes, you just have to be the parent and take the bottle away. Not sure if you know this or not, but past the age of one, a child should not be drinking out of a bottle. It is very bad for the teeth. Perhaps, you can tell her that now that she is getting bigger, she can't have the bottle and let her put them in the garbage or have her pack them up to give to the babies who have no bottles. Tell her you will take her to the store and buy her a special "big girl" cup for her to drink her milk from. Maybe, if she has a say in what cup she gets to use for milk, she will let the bottle go. As for the binky, I just had to take them from my little ones and tell them we could not find them. It does not happen overnight, and there will be crying and begging, but they will get over it faster than you think. Best of luck!

AT two, she is old enough to just take it away and tell her she is a big girl now, no more bottles. Of course she'll throw a fit, but ya know she won't starve or dehydrate from it, she'll get over it. She needs to be done with a bottle at this age, its bad for her teeth and jaw.

She'll probably go on a milk strike from it, but make sure she is eating healthy and she'll be fine. Every time you give in and give it back to her, makes it that much harder the next time you try, and by this point she probably knows if she throws a tissy you'll give in and give it back to her. Don't. She'll be fine. No child has died from not having a bottle. My boys never had one.

im having trouble with my 2 year old and a bottle if you get any good advice please let me know lol