Wont drink bedtime bottle

[CaptainMummy]

And I mean she doesnt even get it to her lips. Just bashes it away.
I cant for the life of me get her to drink it, and she always ends up waking around 11ish wanting one (she goes to bed around 6.30pm)

I have tried giving her dinner earlier (dinner is 4.45/5pm), smaller dinners (which she isnt pleased about!) and no dinner at all (again, she usually ends up eating someone elses)

What do I do? She normally drinks a bottle in the morning, and sometimes will accept one in the afternoon, but the bedtime one is a nono. Should I just give her some porridge instead or is she too young?

Eta. She has never been a fan of her bottles really. And takes 4-6oz per bottle. Her solid intake is huge and she is 50th centile average Joe

 

[calm]

My two were bottle mad, and round the 8 to 9 month stage started wanting less, and also batting it away sometimes, thought I would never live to see the day!. I find my two are really into "no" with gesture. NO I don't want my dummy, NO I don't want to be rocked, NO I don't want to go into my highchair, have we hit the teens already?

 

[CaptainMummy]

Omg, Calm! Hannah is the same. If she is eating and you out her cup on the highchair and she doesnt want it there, she wallops the thing across the room. Same with her dummy or anything else she doesnt want at that particular moment! It is quite funny!

 

[Frustrated42]

I have the same issues with LO. He will take his morning bottle and sometimes an afternoon bottle but bedtime he just bats away. I think I tried more then 10 times last night. I think the No is a stage lol. My LO is the exact same way when he doesn't want something in the moment.

 

[VALiz]

My son is like this. He just now is getting better in the past 2-3 weeks. He will occasionally still be like this if he's overtired. He also will barely drink if we're out of the house or on a day trip somewhere. It's so weird. He will usually eat a solid though.

I never found anything to work. I thought it was really frustrating at the time. I used to just do a dream feed before I went to sleep if he hadn't woke up yet. Maybe if you keep trying it will pass? If not, I think a solid and some water would be fine.

 

[Snow Owl]

Dylan dropped his bedtime bottle at about 9 months and I was happy as he was a good eater and sleeping through

Eira is still on 2-3 bottles a day and by this age Dylan was completely off bottles and on sippy cups!

 

[CaptainMummy]

Dylan dropped his bedtime bottle at about 9 months and I was happy as he was a good eater and sleeping through

Eira is still on 2-3 bottles a day and by this age Dylan was completely off bottles and on sippy cups!

I wouldnt mind at all if she wasnt waking for one! I havent tried her with a cup for her milk yet (failed miserably with my other two, lol!) maybe I could try that at bedtime with a snack.