I need some ideas of how to break my daughter from a bottle. This is my 2nd child but she's nothing like my son was when it come to taking her bottle. He let go with no problems, but she absouletly will not take anything from her cup.Does anyone have any ideas on how I could break her from this. Thank you!!
2006-09-04 16:28:38 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
Alot of bottles now have "sipper" style nipples that you can buy. Try switching to those and eventually switching out to a sipper cup.
2006-09-04 16:50:46 · answer #1 · answered by C K Platypus 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just simply take a bottle and show your daughter that the bottle is going to go in the trash now. No more bottles. then put all the bottle away and never bring them out again. Eventually she will drink from a sippy cup if she wants something. This is what I done with my son. And he forgot about it within 3 days.
2006-09-04 16:48:06 · answer #2 · answered by tricksy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take one bottle away each week until there are none left. Start with the ones that she really can do without (ex: morning and lunch). Put a cup out and do not offer her a bottle. When she is thirsty she will drink it, just keep offering it to her throughout the day. Also, try putting juices or flavored milk in the cup and see what happens.
2006-09-04 16:38:24 · answer #3 · answered by country girl 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If she is older than a year, fill about 5 cups up with different things to drink. Throw away all of the bottles, because believe me, the temptation WILL BE to great if they are there. Place the cups everywhere she is, then don't notice if she tries to drink from them unless she wants you to. Even though you made the rules for this game, let her play her way, within the rules. Bedtime is a killer, but three days of consistency, and I PROMISE everything will be peachy. She won't dehydrate herself with all the cups sitting around. Unfortunately, if she gets sick, health comes first and you'll have to make sure she is getting enough to drink at all costs, even if you have to start from scratch once she is all better. Good luck and God bless.
2006-09-04 17:08:18 · answer #4 · answered by MommyBekah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't tell us how old she is. If she is under a year, don't bother, she just isn't ready yet, If she is between 1 year and 18 months, just put a sippy cup of a drink she especially likes down where she can reach it while playing, if she is over 2, just take the bottle away except at nap times and tell her that bottles are only for bed.Big girls drink from a sippy cup. She will cry and fuss, but ingore her, YOU are the boss, not her
2006-09-04 16:37:15 · answer #5 · answered by judy_r8 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Give her a day. Like in one week. Count down each day on the calander with her and mark it off until the day when the bottles go away. Have her throw them away, make up a story that you are going to give them to babies that need them or something. What ever it is, make them dissapear for good. Do not bring another one into your home. You can try substituting them for something, like a really neat doll or something.
When my son was 9 months old i just threw them away. The next morning I gave him a "Nuby" sippy cup with milk (he only had water and juice in them before) and he wouldn't take it. I had to hold him down and pinch a little of the milk into his mouth so he would know what was in it, he didn't like that, but after he got a tast of what it was, he took it just fine and that was the end of that.
Nuby sippy cups can be bought at Walmart. They are like $1.50 each and the "sippy" part of it is latex like a nipple, but shapped like a sippy cup, this helped I think to transition him.
2006-09-04 17:04:48 · answer #6 · answered by Ask me anything! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i wager that everybody had there own opinion in this. I took my daughter off of the bottle even as she replaced into between 8 and 9 months previous and positioned her on a sippy cup. Pacifier, replaced into out about 11 months. She nevertheless beverages out of a sippy cup, yet on condition that we are in the motor vehicle. I dont imagine that taking this stuff faraway from a baby is going to lead them to have undesirable conduct.
2016-12-06 10:23:37 · answer #7 · answered by latourette 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was a breeze for me. my son went off the bottle on his own at 4 and a half yrs old. i guess he just grow out of it. but the bad thing is he refused to drink his milk now. but he will drink milk (choc of strawberry flavour) which comes in small boxes or packets. There's less nutrients in those. the milk he should be drinking are the ones with AHA n DHA (things which makes kids smart, so i've been told). i'm sure she'll grow out of it on her own. give her some time.
2006-09-04 18:13:43 · answer #8 · answered by Silver Tortoise 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
throw all the bottles away dont buy any more then you cant give them to her and she will eventually get thirsty and have no choice but to drink from a cup then you praise her for being a bi girl and buy her a cup that she picks out
2006-09-04 16:36:06 · answer #9 · answered by aarika 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
throw them all away and say the trash man took them you gotta stop cold turkey do not let her have her bottle if she is thirsty she will drink out of sippy sounds cruel but you gotta stop one day right
2006-09-04 17:04:21 · answer #10 · answered by Moo moo I'm a chicken 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋