My son just turned one and I'd like to get him weaned off of the bottle. It would be easy if he didn't need it to fall asleep. I've tried switching to a pacifier while he was sleeping but he noticed the difference and immediately woke up wanting it back. Please help!
2006-07-14 08:42:59 · 25 answers · asked by pixiedustplease 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
Let him cry himself to sleep. It may seem cruel, but they have to learn to sleep without it. I've babysat children many a time and had put them to sleep without a bottle. They cry for a little while but they eventually fall fast asleep.
2006-07-14 08:46:03 · answer #1 · answered by youdontknowme 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I weaned my son off the bottle I started with the ones he had during the day. I started putting water in them instead of milk or juice, and started putting his milk and juice in sippy cups. Once he realized where the good stuff was, he threw down the bottle. Once he was fully weaned from the day bottles, I moved on to the one in the middle of the night... the same thing.. I put water in it instead. 2 nights and he stopped waking up for it. He's now down to one bottle a night, right before bed... and we're actually starting the water thing with that one tonight. It's worked beautifully so far!! Good luck!
2006-07-14 09:11:42 · answer #2 · answered by rocknrobin21 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Letting children fall asleep with bottles is dangerous--it can make their teeth rot before they are even in their mouths, and can cause problems with their adult teeth, too. The best thing to do is to change his routine now so he doesn't ever have a bottle before bed. (This will also make potty training and staying dry through the night easier when you get to that stage.)
Try sippy cups. You can get some that have the latex sipper that's more like a bottle. They have awesome ones that don't spill and stuff. Buy several kinds, let him pick them out if he's capable (my niece loved picking them out at 12 months...she would hold them until the checkstand), and then see which ones he likes.
2006-07-14 08:46:48 · answer #3 · answered by Amber E 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take away the bottle. Throw it away. Don't replace it with a pacifier. Be a parent. Help your son fall asleep with exercise, a story and a hug. My son started using a cup at 7 months. And I mean a real cup.
2006-07-14 10:42:14 · answer #4 · answered by Deborah 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My son was 6 months when i started him with the tippy cup and they really take to it you just have to get him a good one that he can drink out of that is spill proof from like walmart and throw away or hide all ur bottles in the house and just start to give him the tippy cup and before u know it he wont even look at a bottle
2006-07-14 09:20:32 · answer #5 · answered by cutietraci87 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My daughters doctor told me to have my daughter off the bottle by 18 months. At 15 months I had her completely off. I kept giving her a sippy cup with every meal. I kept the bottle out of sight while she had her sippy. When she started to do a great job with the sippy I just packed up all her bottles and put them in storage. As simple as that. I just quit giving them to her. Yes, she seemed a fussy some times. As if she wanted a bottle, but she learned or eventually forgot about them. It's really up to you to be strong, and not give in when he wants it. You may have to put up with some crying for awhile, but he will forget about the bottle with time.
2006-07-14 09:20:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
take the bottle and hide it and give him one of them sippy cup that the spuot is made of the same stuff as a baby nipple it works really good. thats what i did with my son when he was 7 months. but i only gave him a bottle at night for bed a few times before he only wanted his cuppy till my other son was born and now we are trying to get him back off of it so thats the best way i know of to do it and the cup only costs about 2$ at walmart thay sell them sepritly
2006-07-14 08:48:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think for you... Althou I weened my little guy from his pacifier at 6 months. I examine someplace that between 6-9 months is the perfect hollow in age to ween them with little fuss from the pacifier... i don't know. It worked for me. notwithstanding the bottle replaced right into a diverse tale. i'll inform you what I did (which isn't likely with the help of the e book) notwithstanding it worked. first of all... I went to Walmart. in the juice isle there'll be those juice bottles with Pooh heads, Curious George, Buzz Lightyear. it will be a %. of three for like $6.00 or so... purchase them. After the juice is lengthy gone they are reusable. start up introducing this to him vs a bottle such as his milk. it is genuinely a sippy cup nossle with a bottles shap and a personality on correct ;) he will like them...:) start up tossing or packing his bottles away some an afternoon till there is in common words one left on your cupboard (on your sanity) provide him his 'new' sippy bottle even even as he sleeps. he will finally over a week or 2 not want a nipple in his mouth do to the very incontrovertible actuality that it really is a 'sippy' nipple and it calls for further artwork that a bottle nipple to get his milk out... Like I suggested... not with the help of the e book... notwithstanding it worked like a appeal... good success!!
2016-11-02 01:47:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try a sippy cup like the Nuby. It has a really soft spout almost like a nipple on a bottle. It might help the transition a bit if he doesn't notice too much of a difference.
2006-07-14 09:42:08 · answer #9 · answered by g*love 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just take the bottle and pacifier away at first your baby will cry for it, it will take about 5-15 days for him to forget about it. Its going to be hard but after that you wont regret it . I have 4 kids!
2006-07-14 08:47:04 · answer #10 · answered by Marie R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋