How to tackle the bottle

[Nataliieexo]

My little boy is two and a half I've tried a few times to take the bottle of milk away in the morning and before bed and replace it with a sippy up it didn't work he just cried and cried until I gave in, this morning I have put his cereal out with a cup of milk and he stood at the kitchen baby gate crying for his bottle. He's slow with speech so we have trouble getting him to understand, he is also being assessed for autism and is super sensitive. We have trouble brushing his teeth he won't allow it, crys his eyes out it's a struggle each time but we manage at least once a day to get it done within reason. Tomorrow I am planning on cutting day usage of the dummy which had been done for a good while a few months back but then he started nursery and has had all sorts of illnesses since and hasnt been able to be comforted without the dummy. Although I'm sure this will be problematic when he gets ill again. He doesn't use the dummy at all on the full day he's at nursery or the half day so i know he's capable. It's just the bottles of milk we struggle with. He really loves his morning bottle especially, I'm a little worried about the bedtime bottle as I don't feel as if he eats much at all through the day despite my trying I don't want him going to bed hungry or waking at night because he's hungry.

 

[MummyKP]

I think it's something you've just got to do despite he tears. Maybe take him to the shop and get him to choose his own special cup. Tell him it's for his morning and bedtime milk. Hide all of his bottles so he can't see them. We dropped my LO's just before her first birthday. I'd suggest maybe dropping one before the other. We dropped the morning one first and replaced it with a new beaker of milk. She had a bit of a protest to begin with, but after 2 days she was fine. Then the bedtime one went soon after, and that weren't planned but she was poorly with a sickness bug and I didn't want to give her a bottle of milk, so she went to bed without one for two nights. Since then she's not had one and now she has a beaker of milk around 6:15-6:30 which she sips on until bed at 7. You might need to slightly change his routine like we did, as we used to bath her and then bottle in her room before going in her cot, whereas now she has it before her bath whilst playing, and finishes it whilst we get her dressed for bed.
At his age he shouldn't be waking because he's hungry, and I've been surprised how my LO has gone the whole night without any milk before bed because they learn that you don't eat during the night. His bottle is just a comfort to him so he will protest for a couple of days I'm sure, but it's purely tears to get his way. Good luck, hope it is an easy transition.

 

[Teri7489]

My daughter was 27 months before I got the bottle off her as she was addicted. We got her a new bottle that had a straw attachment instead of a teat. Was the same shape to hold but it got her from the bottle on to the cup quite quickly. She asked for the bottle but quickly understood she wasn't having it. A row from the dentist finalised it anyway! Maybe could try that or be bold and get rid of the bottles completely? Maybe getting rid of them will help you from giving in when he cries? It's tough but will have to happen eventually xxx

 

[LoveCakes]

I tried from my LG was 18 months to get her off her morning and night bottle but it took until she turned two.

I tried every cup they make but I just had to wait till she was ready. The main thing that seemed to help was to cut down from 6 oz to 3 gradually. If she asked for more I told her it was all done and she accepted it.

Around the same time she gave up having her dummy during the day which surprised me as she loved it but what helped there was she put it on her shelf in the morning and when she asked we just said it was on the shelf.