How Do I Get 15 Month Twins off Bottle?

I agree that if you are ready to get rid of the bottles, the best way is to get rid of them all, but I would add this: put all the bottles in a low cabinet and show the children, then show them all going into a bag to be gotten rid of. I would then let them "help" toss all the new sippy cups into the same cabinet and give them the choice to pick their own when it is time to get a drink. It will give them a little control in a big change. Good luck!

K.

Hi - I also have a 15 mo old who refuses to drink milk from a sippy (but loves to drink water from his sippy). I went through this with my daughter (now 3 yo) as well and she eventually gave in. We always presented her sippys with milk at meals and eventually she started drinking milk from the sippy - we continued to do her morning and nighttime milk in bottles. Eventually, she was down to only a bottle at bedtime and then we eventually cut it out as well. I am currently working on this with my son - but he's still not wanting milk from a sippy.
I also found that my daughter would only drink milk from the Take and Toss sippys but would drink water from all others. My son is currently drinking water well out of the Take and Toss ones and we also use these to give him milk in.
Good luck - but don't stress about it. I think my daughter was about 20 months before she gave up the bottle totally and I have friends who's kids wouldn't give up their nighttime milk bottle until well after 2.

start by throwing away the bottles...make a big production about them being big b/g and giving bottles to babies that need them
then only offer the cups - i use the ones that are spill proof but have a straw, they love being big kids and using a straw
eventually they will get that this is their only choice - just be strong and let them know this is their only choice. when my youngest throws a temper tantrum, i just set it on the counter and walk away. he eventually calms down and gets it off the counter (or something their height)

I have a 16 month old and am going through the same thing. I took her to the pediatrician last week and he gave me an idea. Put the milk in a sippy cup and you can continue to give her the bottle but only put water in it. She prefers milk and it will eventually win. It may take a couple of days of her wanting milk in the bottle and fussing, but she can still have her bottle with water. And she won't get dehydrated. She will take a drink from the sippy cup but not drink it down like she did with the bottle. Last night was the first time that she drank the whole sippy cup in a couple of minutes. Makes sense to me. I wasn't one for the cold turkey- cut all bottles out. Maybe you could give it a try.

Try warming the milk up for about 15 seconds. Good luck!

Just get rid of the bottles. Throw them all out. You can tell them or not tell them just make sure when they ask for them you say "There are no more bottles" Be consistent they will give up with a few days.
DO NOT GO OUT AND BUY MORE. if you do that they will know you can and you will have a harder time if you try again later. Just throw them out and stop offering them.
If they stop drinking milk for a few days or a while it's ok just offer yogurt or other dairy products.

Hello!

I went through the exact same trouble with my own twins!! What worked for us is that since they liked to drink orange juice (with calcium and vitamin D) in the sippy cup, I started to mix half milk and half juice and gradually reduced the amount of juice. Now they drink their milk very well. Hope it works for you too! Good luck! A quick trick to get rid of the bottles, put a nipple number 1 on it, it is harder to drink and not satisfying. Keep offering this bottle along with the sippy cup... soon they will go for cup.

have you tried the sippy cup that is shaped kind of a like a sports bottle? it has a round flat nipple in the center? perhaps the nupple would be similar to comfort them, but they would get used to the look of a sippy cup.

T.,
I have twin boys, of course now 7 years old. Not sure if this will help you but maybe some ideas will help. DO they LOVE milk? If so, if they want it bad enough they'll drink from the cup. My twins I did away with the hardest bottle, which for us it was the bed time one. The only bottle they got was in the morning, after that it was cups. They enjoyed that bottle so much i knew they got their milk intake to start the day. May I suggest not to make a lot of changes with cups, as they may sense, she will give us the bottle eventually, she doesn't have a standard cup for us to use consistently yet.... Good luck.
M.

I just last week switched my 14-month old off all bottles except the morning one she likes the most (she drinks about 6 ounces in the morning). She wouldn't drink milk out of a cup for about 4 to 6 days, so I gave her yogurt and cottage cheese to make sure she got her milk protein/calcium. Now she has no problem drinking it out of a cup! Next challenge - drop the morning bottle, but I think it will be easier now. Good luck!

I like the ideas so far. I just like to chime in and tell people not to sweat the small stuff. You have a full plate - raising twins is hard. They will eventually stop drinking bottles. Don't worry if it takes a while, they won't take them to kindergarden.