Refresher Needed on How to Take Away Night Time Bottle Easily!

I found that the most painless way was to make it less enjoyable.

If you're warming it, start by not warming it anymore. If it's milk, cut the amount in half, and start watering it down. 3/4 milk and 1/4 water the first night. The next night...half milk, half water. Etc., etc. When it's 100% water, start offering to her only in a sippy cup. Finally, when she's used to the sippy, start only allowing the cup to be in the kitchen or dining room, because that is where we eat and drink.

Best of luck!

Aww I remember feeling that way with my 3rd baby... I was like 'WHAT AM I DOING?!' ;)

Anyway, for all 3 kids, I flat out threw all the bottles out when they turned a year old. They had all started using zippy cups around 8, 9 months, so it was really easy :) My second baby was a brat about it for one day, and then she got over it.

No good tips here. Our DS self weaned from the breast, and self weaned from the bottle. He pushes it away and clambors for a sippy cup. I think for him, its about not getting enough quickly enough. Maybe you can switch back to newborn nipples to make the night bottle less appealing.

Break the association between bedtime and bottle. Give the bottle, less ounces, like one hour before she goes to sleep. Each night make it less and less and then just take it away for good. Do not get her on a sippy cup because that is the same as the bottle. It causes speech problems and doesn't allow the child to converge their eyes like they do when they drink a regular cup.

Here's a hub (I wrote) that has some good tips on how to wean your child from the bottle - it touches on weaning altogether, but also tips specifically on the nighttime bottle. I hope it helps: http://lilyrose.hubpages.com/hub/how-to-wean-child-toddle...
Best wishes!

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All bottles where gone on our daughters first birthday.. Sippy cups only.
For 2 weeks before her birthday we talked about how big girls do not use bottles.

I took her to pick out a sippy (I purchased 2 in case it got lost) and I picked out one.. The night before I threw all of the bottle stuff away, so we would not fall back on it. Then on the morning of her birthday I asked her, milk or juice?

At nap and at bedtime, I gave her just a bit of milk in the cup, then some water.

We never looked back. no problems.

I weaned my DD pretty slowly...she was nursed, but I'm sure you can do the same thing...

I started off giving her MUCH less. Instead of letting her nurse as long as she wanted, I would cut her off at 5 minutes. (You could make a 1/3 size bottle instead) When she got used to that, I gave her a drink of water instead of nursing her. Then I stopped giving her the water.