Almost 2 Year Old off the Bottle

Try offering him a sippy cup (a really fun one with bright colors or a cartoon character he likes) and call it a "big boy cup" at one of his usual bottle times. If that goes well, expand to another meal, and so on. Probably this will get him easily to just bedtime and/or naptime comfort bottles which you can phase out in a similar way. Take it slow with lots of positive reinforcement when he reaches a milestone, no negative if he balks for a while.
Good luck!

He is probably old enough to do a one-time trade of bottles for something fun, like a toy, or for the "bottle fairy" to come and leave a toy in place of a sack of bottles. Of course, once the trade is complete, the bottles disappear.... In addition to the toy, you might get him to go with you to the store and choose a few new exciting sippies that he can use instead of "boring" bottles! Good luck!

The day after my son turned 2 (thought it wasn't a very nice birthday present to do on is b-day) we had him and some of his cousins gather up all the bottles and throw them in the trash. He did really well with it. My husband actually saved a couple for a few days thinking it wouldn't work, but my son never looked back after that. He was, I think, down to just a morning bottle by that point. Maybe morning and night, but I think just morning. He really looked up to his cousins and thought it was fun to do with them.

I am cutting and pasting my exact response a few minutes ago to another poster with, basically your same question. My son was just like yours, he LOVED his bottle too and one day...poof, he was done with it!!

I just let my son wean himself and it was easy as pie! He was two and one day just gave it up and went straight to a big boy cup with out a lid. We never had an issue with him. I believe kids will tell you when their bodies are ready for change and if you try to force it on them, then you will only be giving yourself a difficult time! I'm one of the few, that doesn't think the magical age to get rid of the bottle is at one. I've never seen a kindergartener with a bottle still, have you?! :)

Give him the big boy talk, let HIM throw all his bottles away and take him to pick out his sipper cups. I would keep a bottle hidden in case you absolutely need one to the rescue.

My kids never took a bottle, but I did have to wean them off the breast. It was very difficult week when we did that!

Take him to the store and let him pick out a sippy cup. Then that night, (or a time of his choosing), box up all the bottles and leave them for the bottle fairy. Let him know the bottle fairy will give them to babies that do not have bottles. Or, if you do not want to be that sneaky, have him box them up and take him to donate to a women's center or children's home.
The bottle fairy should leave something for him if you go that route.

Good Luck!

Take him to the store so he can pick out his own new big boy cup. Make it a big deal, like a graduation from being a baby! I like the idea of him throwing away his bottles too. Don't make it serious, make it fun. Good luck!

Hi J., I have T. children and I took their bottle away at 13 months of age from one day to the next. Both children were fine and never complain. I also had sippy cups for them so they felt like big kids and that transition worked perfectly.

Just take them away, let him know that it is time to start drinking like a big boy. He may refuse milk in a sippy at first to try to get you to bring back the bottle, but just stand firm, keep a sippy of milk on hand for him, and increase the amounts of other dairy (yogurt and cheese ect..) to make up the difference until he starts taking milk from the cup.

well how about a bye bye time for bottle . Maybe make a big deal about going to get new big boy cups and actually have him wave and say bye bye to the bottle. My son wanted to pretend to be a baby at the end of my second pregnancy. Being big and pregnant, this was killing my back. We ended up telling him that we were going to "be the baby" one more time and then tell the baby "bye, bye" He loved it! I held him, gave him his sippy as if it were a bottle and then we all said "bye,bye baby!" It worked awesome, and if he ever said he wanted to be the baby again, we would just say "oh remember, we said bye bye to the baby" So maybe if you do that and he asks for a bottle, you just tell him that you said bye bye to the bottle. It worked for us, good luck!

Just throw them away. Tell your son that he's no longer a baby, that he's your big boy and big boys use cups. Start him off with a Tupperware sippy cup because when he's old enough to get rid of sippys, you can just give the seals to someone else and use the cups as regular cups. Then, have him help you throw them away. They will damage his teeth if he doesn't get off that bottle soon; I had a family friend who's child used a bottle until she was four and her front teeth were horrible! Good luck!

He wont be in the 6th grade with a bottle...My dd self-weaned at about 14-15 months. I had a REALLY RUDE woman come to my house for a play date and "comment" on her bottle usage and her age....you know what? Screw them!!! I ABSOLUTELY cant stand for "mothers" to "pick" on one another.
Your kiddo still likes the bottle? Give it to him....dont make a big deal..I gaurentee, he will quit when he quits... 2? you will all too remember 2...when he's 14!!!