My baby boy is 16 months and I just gave up the bottle tonight.?
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You should never transition a child so drastically. He is too young to understand why he is not getting his bottle. You can do as some people suggested and just let him cry it out--He will eventually adjust, but the transition would be a lot smoother is you replaced his bottles during the day with the sippy cup. Still let him have his early morning bottle and his before bed bottle. Then cut out the early morning bottle after a week. Cut out the before bed bottle another week later.
We are working on that right now with my nephew with the pacifier and bottle. He is finally completely off the bottle at 10.5 months and is only getting the pacifier at night when he goes to bed. It took us 3 months to completely transition him from the bottle because he was not getting enough nutrition from the sippy. Make sure he is still getting 24 oz of milk a day before removing him completely from the bottle. Just take it slow and he will eventually transition. It isn't the end of the world if her is still taking the occasional bottle at 18 months... Every kid is different. Believe me, it will not scar him for life!
Just let the baby cry. He will get over it.
Your baby is 16 months old and you're just now giving up the bottle? You shouldn't drink when you have an infant!
Stick to your guns, he is 16 months. He should be off bottles. Offer him a sippy cup. Don't give in even though it may be hard the first few nights. It will work out better now rather then letting it continue. The older he gets, the harder it will be to stop. He will only be upset for a little while. Comfort him, offer him a sippy cup, but don't go get another bottle.
Try distracting him with a bath if you can. Will he drink milk from a sippy or a cup? It will be easiest to calm him if he isn't hungry or thirsty. Also you could rock or sing to him.
Honestly though, I would let him have the bottle. My son is 17 months and I still let him have a bottle at bed time. One bottle a day never hurt anyone. Good luck.
no dont go back to thr bottle try maybe a cup of milk or water thats what i did with mine and it worked then after a while of that take that away and he should be just fine...good luck
yeah lay down the rules...
Justin
A lot of parents go through the same temptation when giving up the pacifier...just rush down to the store and buy another one. But, it is best to let him cry about it and get over it. Eventually he'll stop crying about it, this is just a stage/transition he has to go through.
You should slower take him off the bottle, like giving him sippy cups during the day & a bottle at night for a couple weeks... don't take him off cold turkey, he doesn't know what's going on.
my son gave up his bottle at the age of 2. You need some tough love. He dont know it, but laying down drinking a bottle very bad for his teeth. It shouldn't take him too long to get over it. It is best to take the bottle away in stages, first the morning, a week later, the nap bottle and a week later the night bottle. That helped a lot and if you did that already, just going to have to let him cry. He is ok just heart broken since no bottle. He will get used to it.
I wish you luck.
I would recommend that you just let him cry. Try offering him a sippy cup in place of the bottle before you lay him down, but don't give in to him. If you give him the bottle because he is crying.. he is going to start doing that with everything. If you give in to him now.. you may never conquer the bottle. I have a 15 month old son and he has been off of the bottle since 12 months. I never gave him whole milk in the bottle.. once I stopped nursing and giving him formula, I stopped the bottle. Just give him a few days and do your best to be strong and it will all work out ok.
I am giving my daughter a sippy cup in place of a bottle. This works for her.
I know how you feel.
This is harder on you then it is on him.
He will figure it out.
He really needs security and ritual right now.
In other words: start with a bath then a book and
start a routine every night.
He will get used to it.
You don't really want him on a bottle because that will
sabotage your next BIG parenting roll
Potty training, which if he is full of liquid he will wet the
bed... so wein him now and prevent future problems.
YOU can do this.
Just be strong.. you will benefit in the end.
Good parenting
Relax this is so normal, your baby has been so used to having the bottle, its like breaking out of a habit, it will take some time for your baby to get used to not relying on the bottle. Try giving your baby warm milk before bed in a sippy cup that should work
I think this shouldn't be cold turkey. I'd try sippy cups then decreasing the amount in them. This way seems mean. If he wants a drink, he should have it.
Don't do it. You made the dissision stick with it. It will only get harder as he gets older. I have a friend who still gives her 2 3/4 year old two bottles during the night as well as 2-3 in the day. He is going to cry and it will be hard. Just go in and reassure him.3 days tops and he will stop asking.
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