Easy Way to Get My One Year Old off the Bottle

K.:

It is exactly as Britney said. It is their source of comfort. Why would you take it away so early or at all. I know I am on the opposite end of the spectrum on this issue, but have stated before and will again. I never "took" my daughters bottle, passy or blanket from her. She gave them up when she was finished with them. They will not want them forever and in reality if you think about it sucking on a bottle or a cup are the same thing. One has a nipple and one doesn't, but it is still the same concept. If you are a coffee drinker or cigarette smoker, it gives you comfort. Would you like someone larger than you to say o.k. you are XXX years old and no more coffee for you or cigarette for you, just because you are this age and I am bigger and can do it. I don't give a flip about what experts say, usually they have not raised kids or even had any of their own.

I get so tired of living in a "hurried child" world where we want to pop them out and not enjoy childhood. We have to get out of the baby bed early, potty train early, barely even get a bottle at all and be on little league by the time we can walk.

Please take time to enjoy the baby times and childhood times. They will be grown forever and then you cannot recapture it. Pleast take time to read "The Hurried Child."

Just my 2 cents worth. Take or leave it.

J.

I'm sure there are other ways, but we had the same problem with my daughter. She's 3 now, but when she was a year old, we had the same problem. She refused to drink from a sippy cup. What we ended up doing was offering her nothing but a sippy cup. I checked with her doctor and he said she needed to get off the bottle for health reasons. She had about 2 days of fits and then when she realized we weren't going to give in, then she was fine with it. HTH.

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Hi K.,

My son is 2 and I still am having trouble with the bottle!! I have been trying to get him off of it since he turned one. As one mother commented earlier that your child will give it up when he is ready, I do think that is true, and that is the advice I took from people. My son has weaned himself off little by little but the negative effect from that advice is that my son now has "baby bottle syndrome" and his top 4 front teeth are decaying. Now I wish I listened to the moms who told me to take it away and let him cry then get over it.

Hi K.. I too am having the same issues. My daughter is near the 14 month mark and she is VERY attached to her bottle. I am very proud to announce that I did get her down to 1 bottle a day. She doesn't really have a problem taking cups with milk in them. The best cup that I've tried is the NUBY with the sylicone topper. They say it's an easy transition from bottle to cup. So far so good. Their bottles are their comfort zone and it's hard to break them from it. I would suggest keep trying and hopefully he'll just give it up. Good luck sweetie.

When I was ready to take my daughter off of the bottle, the dr told me it was ok to give chocolate milk. I put weak chocolate milk in her sippy cup, and water in her bottle, and then gave her a choice. When she chose the sippy cup, I got rid of all the bottles, so I would not give in.