Getting My Daughter off the Bottle Completely

I broke my son off the baba by just stop giving it to him, at first it was a little hard but in a few days he was just fine with out it. ya when he would see one he wated it but we never gave it to him.

Well what I did with my little ones,everysingle bottle dissapeared. I also heard that if you keep putting their least favorite drink they would rather have what is in the cup. good luck

Whenever we wanted to get any of our 3 children off of something we simply had it disappear. Bottles, pacifiers and diapers (for potty training). We told them that they were big kids now and it was gone. With bottles we made it a big deal and bought them new cups, either with a character they liked or in their favorite color. With pacifiers we added a stuffed animal to their bedtime routine before taking away the pacifier so they had a replacement there. Potty training came with cool new undies. We made it a "right of passage" with our kids. Something fun and exciting.

Not to say that they weren't resistant to the change. The bottle was the hardest on my daughter. She only had it before bedtime as part of her snack, and she was not happy. But we were able to show her that there were no more bottles anywhere in the house (and we seriously had to remove all of them - she's good at finding out hiding places). But we also really enforced the big girl part since she had a brother 19 mo younger than she, and we didn't want a relapse when he started on the bottle. Good luck!

Put all the bottles out of site. Throw them away if you have to and tell her they are "all gone". Use the verbage she will understand the best. If she is only using them once in awhile she shouldn't miss them at all. Just make sure to give her the drink in a cup when she asks for it. Good Luck!!

Because she is 2 just take it away and don't give it back. This worked for my daughter at one.

My daughter only responds to things she sees, so when I put the bottle away & put a cup in front of her, she'd whine a bit but eventually she'd drink from it. If she didn't, I'd give her the bottle after awhile (after all, she needs fluids)... but for the most part, when she didn't SEE the bottle, she didn't want it. It was a gradual transition but before I knew it, it was only the cup for her!

Try letting her put the top of the sippy cup on...This is how I got my 1 year old off the bottle. They obviously can't turn it, but my son really enjoyed just setting the top on the cup. So excited he did the milk dance!

The way I got my son off the bottle is make the ones he uses the least disappear and the one he uses most have the nipple tear. I took sissors and cut the nipple and said,"uh, oh the bottle broke" and he threw it away and it gave him closure by throwing it away on his own. Try this technique- it worked for the bottle and the pacifier.

Now with my son I just gradually took it away first during the day then night except he was younger. I started him at 12mos and had him off by 19mos. Then my youngest child my daughter I actually just took it away at 12mos and they both did fine. i think the older they are the harder it is but mine were younger but I thought I would share what I did.

I just watched a supernanny show with a 3 year old and his bottle adn she had a big throwing away party..SHe put all the bottles in a bag and had him throw them away and once he did a new cup will "magically" appear...Make it a really cool cup ... I hope this works?? Otherwise I just took the bottles away for my son at 10 months old and my daughter was 12 months old..They never cared...
Good luck,
M.

Hi A.,
After our son turned one year old, we got rid of the bottle, but we did it little by little. We got him some sippy cups (with the handles so he can easly handle them), and during the day he will drink his juice from it, or his water. Then at meal times and at bed time, he had his milk in the bottle. Then we started to give him sippy cups of milk in the morning and afternoons, and then at night he would have a bottle of warm milk before going to bed. After a few days of doing that, we eventually had him on the sippy cups only. It was an easy transition since we gradually did it. I hope this helps. :-) G.

This is one where you just have to nip it in the bud. You said she will drink from a cup - so she clearly CAN. You just have to be strong and diligent about tossing out the bottles completely so there is no temptation on your part (or hers) to use them. It's like getting rid of a pacifier...it may be "rough" at first, but after a few days, she will accept the situation, knowing to get drinks, she has to use what is offered to her. She is two, so developmentally, she needs to not use the sucking reflex/muscles from a nipple, or she may delay her speech and oral development.

Hang in there - you're more than half-way there if she will use a cup even occassionaly now!!!

Best of luck!

Since your daughter just turned 2, tell her that she needs to stop drinking from a bottle because she's a big girl now. If she refuses, tell her that you will take away the bottle even if she doesn't want to because she can get tooth decay. The next day, go to your local library and pick out books about baby bottles and tooth decay so that your daughter can look at some pictures and see for herself what her teeth could have looked like if she kept the bottle. It will be a battle but you will come out a winner. Kisses to you daughter.

Good Luck!
I've tried weaning my son off the bottle since he was 9 months and he wouldn't quit until he was 16 months old. It took two hours to quit cold turkey. But then he is 3 and still sucking out of a sippy cup. He refuses the straw cups, juice boxes, and drinking out of a cup. He doesn't mind drinking it from the shower because he knows he's going to get all wet.
His teeth is fine, no cavities.

I have a 8 yr old boy and a 23 month old boy, and I had both my boys off the bottle by 12 months old. About a week before i took the bottles completely away cold turkey, I talked to my kids every day all day long about how sippy cups were the greatest thing ever invented and that they are big boy cups and big boys drink from them. I continued to tell them how much of a big boy they were and that when they get the sippy cup they are going to be so excited to show them off to their friends. I explained the differences between a baby and a big boy. Both my son's took to the sippy cup with no problem. This works for anything that you need your child to adjust to, if you just talk them through the situation/event when it's time they will not resist you in any way, they will still be children, but you have such an easier time getting them adjusted to different situations in life. Good luck I hope this has helped you.

I've worked in daycare with little ones for about 5 years and my daughter was off the bottle at 11.5 months old. I threw every bottle I had in a bag and into storage, and tried different kinds of sippy cups, some with straws and others with stoppers, and she found a couple that she prefered. It didn't happen over night, but within a week she began adjusting beautifully. It will be a challenge for a short time, then your little girl will understand that the bottle is no longer available and start drinking from the only other options you provide... a sippy cup or a regular cup. If she stays on the bottle much longer, her teeth could have long term affects with proper allignment and tooth decay. So, the effort is worth it if you think about how it will affect your check book and your little girls mouth later on. Pacifiers are also something you should try keeping her away from, because of the same affects.

Something I did with my daughter was only put formula in her bottle. that way when it was time to start drinking milk it was easier to just say no we drink milk out of cups and formula out of a bottle. As soon as we finnished the can of formula after she turned one I packed all her bottles up while she was sleeping and she hasn't seen one in our house since except when my friends' babies carry them around. As long as you give her something to replace it with whether it be a sippy cup or just a regular cup she should be fine. Hope this helps!