Advice on How to Stop the Bottle on 2 Year Old

i'm sort of a cold turkey girl. we stopped all bottles at 1. sippys only. personally, i would just start putting milk in the sippy cups and cut down on the water and juice, so he's thirsty for the milk. if you don't want to be that drastic, maybe just start putting less and less milk in the bottles. i would still cut down or out the water and juice for a few days to make sure he's thirsty. at that age, he won't dehydrate. when he gets thirsty enough, he will drink.

Don't offer the bottle, just a sippy cup with milk. He should be getting more milk than juice at this time, whether its in a bottle, sippy cup, or big kid cup.

Even if its for nap time that he gets the bottle, give him a cuppy instead of the bottle.

My youngest uses the cuppy (sippy cup, with a soft straw) for nap time, with milk and I flavor it with a tsp of flavored coffee creamer, then warm it), she usually drinks it just before her nap, then takes the empty to her crib with her. She also has a fresh water cuppy in her crib for night time and nap time. The rest of the day she uses a "big kid cup", or she uses a water bottle - spring water - with "sugar free hawiian punch single to go" pouches. She'll drink one throughout the day, and other stuff also. I think she likes to take the cap off more than anything!
Good luck

Both my boys were taken off bottles at one - I just took them out of the cupboard and told them they were big boys and there were no more bottles. Cold turkey, only way. Even if your son gives you a hard time, he will eventually drink because he is thirsty - don't worry.

My daughter was very very attached to her bottles as well. After she turned one she only had one bottle every night with water in it but she couldn't fall asleep without it. It was her comfort. She did this every night till she turned two when I threw them all away. I prepared her and started telling her about three weeks before her 2nd brithday that 2 year olds are not allowed to drink bottles and that when she went to sleep the night before her birthday the bottle fairy would come into our house and take all her bottles away so that she could give them to babies who needed them, since she was turning two and would be a big girl. We talked about it quite a bit then when she went to sleep the day before her birthday I collected every bottle in the house and took them to teh nearest dumpster. When my daughter woke up we went into the kitchen looking to see if teh bottle fairy came and when we opened up the cupboard where the bottles were kept we found two new big girl straw cups from the disney store. Since we prepared her for this so much it was a pretty easy transition, we had a few meltdowns when she was really tired and wanted her bottle to comfort her but there was much less resistance because she was prepared and understood that they were gone. Before coming up with this whole bottle fairy thing, I swore my daughter was never going to give up tghe bottles!

Good Luck

And P.s. the diaper fairy came when she turned three, the sippy cup fairy may come when she turns four, it's actually a really great way to get rid of their little habits!

I stopped the bottle with both my boys at a year of age by slowly getting rid of one bottle at a time, leaving the favorite for last. After a few days, I threw them all out. Assuming these are milk bottles, you can make sure that his snacks or meals throughout the day include some form of calcium. The transition went relatively smoothly for both. Good luck!