Getting Rid of Bottle for Good

At 10 months I decided to start weaning my son off of a bottle and it was too easy... I got lucky I guess. One day I gave him a sippy cup with formula in it and he didn't even notice the difference. Our sippy cups don't have measurements on it like bottles do, so we used his bottles to measure the amount of water we put in his sippy cup for formula. He grabbed his bottle while I was holding him and tried to drink from it (without a nipple), so, I fixed up a bottle for him and I put really cold water in it and gave it to him. He drank it, threw it on the ground, then crawled over to it, drank it, and threw it back on the ground. He associated unpleasant water with his bottle and hasn't touched one since. All in a days work.

You really have the right idea! I do agree that the sooner you get it done the easier it will be for your duaghter to get over.

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We went cold turkey on bottles with both of our kids on their first birthdays. We didn't have any issues with either child (neither of which took to sippy cups before that).

We had several types of sippy cups to make sure we had ones they'd take to. But, the bottles were cleaned and packed in the basement.

Good luck. Better to break it now than many months down the road.

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I put all the bottles in the trash can togther with all the nipples and anything accociated with a bottle. The first night without a bottle I gave my child a brand new teddy bear and she was happy and never asked for a bottle again. Very easy.

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I'm a firm believer in cold turkey, but you can do it in a nice way. Have her help you place ALL bottles into a bag, basket, or other container.... you can tell her you are giving them to a baby or to the bottle fairy or whatever you want, and give her a gift for being a big girl

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I would defiantely give her her least favorite thing to drink in the bottles, and put milk, juice etc in the sippy cups only. thats what we had to do with my son, and it took awhile but it eventually works. Don't expect the transition to happen in a day or two, sometimes it takes a week or more, just stick with it!

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Does she have a soft-tip sippy cup, or a hard tip? That could make a big difference. I got the Munchkin sippy cup, with a soft, spill-proof tip, because my son would not drink from a hard tip. The Munchkin tip is this really nice soft plastic/rubber/silicone (okay, so I don't remember the name of the material… it has been a while…), which felt very similar to a bottle tip for him, and the cup itself was nicely shaped and ribbed so that he could easily hold it.

God bless!
M. D

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YOu know, we dreaded removing the bottle from our now 3 1/2 yr old. She was totally attached. She used it all day long and she used it for self-soothing. I imagined disaster. It took 3 days. We couldn't believe it. We prepared her for 3 days prior by saying at bedtime, "In 3 days, no more bottle." Then the next night,"In 2 days etc..."

Hard to tell with kids they're all so different. BUt you might be surprised to find it's easier than you imagine. Good Luck!

I had a very hard time getting my son to give up the bottle but someone suggested to me to make the hole just a little bigger so he would actually get just a little to much, then tell him its broken. "All gone" and show her that you have thrown it in the garbage. Try it, I'm not saying its going to work for her but my son was terrible giving it up. Once I did this he was fine. I gave him the unspillable sippy cup and that was it.
Good luck to you.

On March 31st Pondertex posted this same type of question check it out.. Here was my answer.. You could give your child this weekend to switch over..

At about 11 months, I started telling our daughter the bottle will go bye, bye on her first birthday.
I took her to the store and let her pick out the one she liked. I also purchase a couple of other styles in the same form. I kept them on the kitchen counter so she could see them. When I would prepare her bottles, we would talk about the big girl sippy cup.

The night before her birthday, I reminded her that in the morning, she was going to "get to use the big girls sippy cup."

I threw away all bottle paraphernalia and had the sippy cup on her high chair. I asked if she wanted juice or milk? She said milk.. She took the first sip and her reaction was 'Ooo!" that day at her birthday party lots of people included sippy cups in all varieties.. From then on I would ask her which cup and she would point to the one she wanted.. I also let her pick th eone for her diaper bag, so when we went out, she knew that was the "diaper bag cup"..

My dgtr was 15 mos old and wouldnt sleep without bottle. She was chubby so I only put water in it at night. I talked to her doctor who said she was just addicted to it and to cut her off cold turkey, He told me to put her in bed, then go somewhere where I could not hear her, so I ran a hot bath and kept running the water so I couldn't hear. It was 2 hrs before she quit. The next night it was one hr; the next 1/2 hr and finally she fell asleep without a bottle. It was totally worth it! No more getting up in the night to give her a bottle when she woke up, no more wet beds from drinking to much in the night! I recommend it!