Mcheer

How is it going with the removal of the bottle from S?

jalapeno_76

Well...

Last week I tried to put her to bed without it, cold turkey--mostly to see what would happen. She was all ready for bed and hadn't mentioned it, so I ran with it. Yeah--that went down in flames. She fah-reaked for about an hour, so I finally gave her the damn bottle... anyway, she never really settled that whole night.

So we're taking baby steps... I used to bring her up and give her the bottle in the rocker in her room. So no more bottles upstairs now--she can only have them downstairs. That was even rough for a few nights, but it's better now.

Of course, you might know that she got a cold on Sunday, which is a setback. I think the next step will be to cut the amt of milk in half, then water down til it's water, then bu-bye bottle.

I'm too chicken to go cold turkey again, and DH is not really on board with taking the bottle away at all. ("it's too hard"). It is a good thing this child is a second child--she'd have been an only if she came first!!

Carol in Maryland

Have you considered giving her the bedtime milk in a sippy cup? Just another thing to break the habit.

lapoissonne

Ah, Hannah had her night time (and nap time) bottle for two years. I was able to reason with her into new sippy cups when it was time for it to go. Her teeth are still fine!

Mcheer

That is what we did for G.... we switched Advent bottles and I told her they were big girl bottles and she just slowly weaned off of it... it was about a month with the new bottles and I was able to pull them completely