Weaning a Toddler off of a Bottle

This may sound strange but what I did was put water in both a sippy cup and a bottle. For about a week I gave her both the cup and the bottle when she went to bed. Then after the week I asked her to pick one and she picked the cup. The trick for me was to put water in the bottle also. She had liked the milk in the bottle but when I replaced it with water she didn't like the bottle anymore, therefor she wanted the cup. I got this trick from a parenting class and it worked. Good Luck! =)

Just take it away. Throw them all out! He'll adjust!

Our babies grow so fast whats the rush, Believe me right when you get the baby off the bottle then you have the new baby in the house be prepared to start all over with your toddler. Eventually your toddler will stop using the bottle they all do just be patient. Keep doing what your doing with the sippy cup. You're doing a good job! Don't give up, this is just the beginning of many challenges you'll have being a mommy. good luck :)

My first daughter never would take a bottle or sippy cup. We went staright to a straw cup at a very early age. Once she figured out how to control the flow it was great. I tried for months with a sippy cup thinking eventually she would get it.

My daughter is now 3, but one night I just packed them away ( I forget if she was 1 1/2 or older) and told her tomorrow we will just be using the sippy cups and big girl cups. Once they were packed away I couldn't give in. I told her she could have the sippy cup or nothing and gave her the choice to decide. Of course she chose the sippy cup. :) Now I need to get her off the sippy cups at night and in the morning. You can do it. :)

It took a few trials and errors regarding cup style for our now 13 month old son to begin using a cup with fluids. As a few other mother's have said, perhaps trying some different cups and see if your lil' one has a preference and greater ease with one style vs. another. You could also try the 50/50 of water and milk with gradually increasing the milk in the cup. We weaned the breast and bottle first at lunch and during the day fluids. The breakfast and bedtime breast/bottle was the last to go. And to be quite frank, happened sooner rather than later and with greater ease than I had anticipated. You appear to be on the right track and well, for some children it just takes longer for transitions which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I would next try and rid the morning bottle and try the 50/50 method and see what happens; if this works, then try the same with the bedtime bottle. All you can do is keep trying. At 13 months, we are now using cups for all 3 meals and snacks. We rid the bedtime milk just before he turned one. I thought this would be tough because of 'routine', but nope, he was a trooper and doesn't miss a bedtime bottle or breast : ) I just gauge his milk intake during the day. I generally give a 6 oz. cup of whole milk at breakfast and dinner, with a 5 oz. at lunch, and then water thru out the day. So far, working for us. Hang in there and you will find a method that works for your family...again, it's a matter of trial and error and yep, patience : ) Best wishes!

When my son was almost 2 we moved to a new house and my husband insisted that the bottles were not coming with us. So one week before the move I packed all the bottles up and put them away were he couldn't see them. When he asked for a bottle the next day I showed him that there were no more bottles since he was a big boy now and no longer a baby. It was definitely hard for the first two days... he cried all day long the first day and a few times the second day, but by the third day he was completely on the sippy cup and didn't even ask for the bottle any longer. It was actually easier then I thought it would be.

Try the same idea they have with the pacifier fairy. Package up the bottle to send to the bottle fairy and put in the mailbox. Then the next day have a present come back from the fairy. Just be sure once you send them away you never give them back.