helpful ways to get my 19 month old off the bottle?

Question

i have already introduced a sippy cup to her, but when she's real fussy, she only wants the bottle, and i try to give her the bottle at nap/bedtime, she's teething now, so she is fussy the majority of the time, and she has not taken up a pacifier, and i wont allow het too either

Answer 1

I weaned my kids by giving them cups with straws. They were able to still suck, which satisfied that need for them, and it was a natural progression then to just drinking from the cup. Since your's is nearly two now, it should be simple enough, except for maybe a bedtime bottle, but that will eventually go, too. Sucking is comfort for babies, and that's what makes it so hard to give up.

Answer 2

i'm a mother of 3 little girls (ages 7,5,and 4)

this is not an easy transistion for anyone and babies vary in ages of when they are ready to be off the bottle....

try getting her the spillproof sippy cups with the soft tips-most babies reject the cup b/c the drinking part is such a hard plastic and they are used to the soft nipple from the bottle. the cup still might get rejected but stick to it-it will eventually be accepted. once the baby is used to the soft sippy cup you can slowly introduce the hard plastic ones-by this time she'll be used to the whole "cup" concept and the transition should be an easy one.

gerber also makes a sippy cup type attachment that you can put onto the top of her bottle to get her used to the cup-it worked wonders for my youngest b/c she was a pacifier baby until age 2. i had her off the bottle by 9 months but the binkie was much harder to give up!!

also start off with the small 9oz cups WITH handles-i found that the normal sippy cups w/out handles are too hard for little hands to grip and they get dropped alot which can frustrate her enough to turn her off to the cup completely.

she will cry for the first few weeks of not being able to have the bottle at naptime but consistancy is best and she'll soon learn that if she's thirsty-the cup is all she is going to get and she'll accept it.

Answer 3

I introduced sippy cups to my daughter about 12 months. I had one for milk and one for juice -- for some reason the juice sippy cup was a hit. When she tried milk from a sippy cup she gave me this look like " what in the world...." So, she is now 20 months and still takes her milk in the bottle. About 2 wks ago she weaned herself off her pacifier (hallelujah!) so im thinking i should introduce the milk in a sippy cup again and see how that goes. At this stage in her life, i only want her to go throught one major change at a time so it is not too stressful for her. So perhaps you should try juice or water in a sippy cup first and she how your baby does. Driking from a sippy cup takes some getting used to also, so dont get frustrated. If your baby spends time with other children, especially older ones that dont use bottles, he or she might get motivated to drop the bottle and be like the bigger kids - - try that .... and good luck!

Answer 4

We had the same problem. I first started to make the holes in my daughters nipples a little bigger until one day oooppps the bottle was "broken" and she went and threw the bottle in the garbage. She asked for it for a few days and I just told her it ws in the garbage remmeber...and her reply ws "broken". She had the power to do it herself I think that's what made it easier. She has a 6 month old brother now who has the bottle and she is 22 months old. Eveerynow and then she still says her bottle is in the garbage it's broken. Don't get into the trap of supplementing the bottle with a sippy cup though. Thta's what happened her e so we are going throughthee whole thing again. Instead of runnign around with the bottle in her mouth she has one cup she loves and won't drink from anyhting else. Good Luck

Answer 5

I know it is a little unpopular, but babies should be on the bottle until they are two. They need the comfort of sucking. Especially yours, it seems like she needs to have it a little longer. If you are worried about her teeth, wean her down to water only.

If you absolutely need her off the bottle now, gather them all up and put them in a pretty bag. Tell her that the bottle fairy will leave her a toy and take the bottles to babies who need them. Say that she doesn't anymore because she is not a baby.
My mother pretended to mail mine to the zoo for the baby lions. I bought it, never needed a bottle after that. I was 2 though.

Answer 6

WooW! I would throw them out after he goes to bed and start him in the morning with a sippy cup! Throw away all bottles and pacifiers! He should have been on a cup @ 6-8 months old.

Answer 7

Get a cup with a lid, a sippy cup. Thicken the milk with a smidge of rice cereal at first. The hole in a sippy cup are large and numerous, so in the beginning he may take a big suck, and choke on the milk. Take away all bottles out of sight, or give him/her empty bottles only. Soon they will learn to get their drinks/milk for the sippy cup. Teach them also to eat finger foods, and get a circle spoon so they can learn to feed themselves. This takes awhile and is messy !

Good luck.

Answer 8

WOW, throw it away or have them throw it away and give them super big praise and let them go pick out a toy for reward when they get rid of it. I saw a 4yr old in the park the other day with a bottle and the mother was holding him like a baby, she was trying to cover him up cause she was embarrased.
NIP it in the bud! =) both of my babies were on straw cups by 8 months old and the bottle was gone

Answer 9

A few days before my daughter turned one I bought her the Nubby sipper cups. It has a soft silicone thing that they drink out of. She had no problem changing. I stuck to those for about 4 months until I transitioned her into the plastic ones. You can get the nubby sippers at K-mart or Wal-mart. They are sold individually for about $1.50 each.

Answer 10

let sipy cups on tables and regular cups (kids are naturly curious) when s/he gets useto the sipy cup just dont give him/her a bottle its either drink out of the sippy cup or be thirsty the child will soon change his/her mind