my 19 month old will NOT put down the bottle! attached to the baba????help?

Answer 1

This is easy for me since I'm going through it right now. It's been 1 week and my 19 month old has been completely off the bottle. We bought a nuby sippy cup at walmart, the ones with the silicone, soft lids. IT is a lot like a bottle. He gets to have that during the day, but at night. Nothing. Cold turkey. It was the best way to do it. He hasn't quite stopped putting up his fights at night when it's time to go to sleep just yet. But, the huge difference is he's sleeping through the night, not waking up for a bottle. It was more a comfort that a feeding thing. I try to have him have some milk before bed, but he doesn't seem interested. Our routine now does consist of him crying himself to sleep but I know that will pass too. It is so much better not to have the bottle to deal with, and with the sippy cup, we'll phase that out when the time comes too. Good luck to you. Muster up the courage and just do it. You will be glad you did. Remember you are the parent, and you are doing what's best for them.

Answer 2

I replaced her baba with a sippy cup that uses a valve (Playtex). It also helps if they see other kids using the cups, too. She was also quite attached to he bottle. It is a long process that doesn't go away over night (at least it didn't for me). Try substituting the sippy cup once a day and titrate up until she is at a bottle before bedtime only. Then slowy take the bottle away (stop offering or use the sippy cup instead)

Answer 3

Take it away from the child, 19 months is way too long to have a bottle.

They'll cry, they'll scream, they'll refuse to drink anything for awhile .... then they'll get over it and go on with sippy cups. Don't go for a bottle-like sippy cup, get that child drinking from a cup for goodness sakes!

BTW you will be the only one emotionally scarred by having the bottle taken away. Your child will be fine in about a week :)

Answer 4

Put water in the bottle and milk or juice in the cup, they will want to use the cup to get the milk. I used to let my dtr have a small bottle at night with water in it, until I saw these cups called Nubby's at WAlmart. They are clear in an hour glassed shape with a nipple on top but it's shaped like a sippie cup top, they worked great for a few weeks then she was done with both!

Answer 5

this is how I got my daughter off the bottle:

I started giving her fluids in a cup during the day pretty much as soon as she was sitting up on her own and able to hold the cup herself, which she did fine with but for some reason she had to have a bottle to go to bed, the only time she refused the cup was at bedtime

so when I was ready to completely get her off the bottle I gave her a bottle full of water and a cup full of milk at bedtime and let her decide . . . the 1st night she drank 3 8-oz bottles of water, cried after finishing each and asked for milk but would not drink it out of the cup so she cried herself to sleep . . . over the next few days she would drink all the water and some milk out of the cup . . . until by the end of the week I just gave her a cup of milk for bedtime and she was done with the bottle!

she still needs a cup of milk at bedtime but I'll worry about that later when I get to potty training

so I suggest you try that, give yours nothing but water in the bottle and all other milk, juice, anything tasty in the cup, tell her/him that (s)he gets to decide what (s)he drinks out of but not what goes in it : )

good luck, have patience, I know it's hard to listen to your little one cry, you just want to give in to stop the sobs but the sooner the better, you don't want to mess up those cute little teeth : )

Answer 6

some say that the rice cereal will make the toddler greater finished and sleep longer. i've got heard that could be a delusion. I in no way positioned cereal in my toddler's bottle ever. additionally, at 2 months, the toddler's digestive gadget isn't waiting for the rest to boot breastmilk or formulation. i began out spoon-feeding my daughter rice cereal at 5 months which grow to be incredibly watered down and slowly have been given thicker each and each week consistent with the pediatrician's suggestion whilst my daughter confirmed signs and indicators of now not being content cloth with purely breastmilk. have confidence your instincts and constantly be at liberty to ask the wellbeing practitioner any questions.

Answer 7

I just took the bottle away from my 15month old daughter yesterday. I took her to the store and let her choose which one she wanted, so far she cries like mad when she wants her baba, but right now shes fast asleep and no tears so will see how it goes tomorrow, my best advice I KNOW its hard but dont give in give a cup and dont look back

Answer 8

take him to a shop where they sell non spill cups,beakers, ask him which he likes so he gets to pick the colour and size etc,, make a big thing about it saying hes a big boy ,,it normally works,, maybe even get hiom a new drink and say it can only go in hte new cup ,, ? if hes not ready yet then is it really such a big thing?if he won`t use it now leave the cup on the side where he can see it and try and sneekily give him it,,he may not realise,, does he see other little ones that age with cups it may help ,,pictures ,,maybe show him a pic on the net of anew cup and be excited like wow....

Answer 9

my best advice to you is this...just take the bottle away completey throw them all away he/she will cry but it won't last longer than three days...my son was 20 months old he cried himself to sleep two nights in a row the third night he was fine and all day he cried when he wanted a bottle i just gave him a sippy cup he eventually drank it cause he was thristy and had nothing else and now i have a seven month old daughter and he pays no attention to the bottle just try it, it takes patience and its hard to see your baby crying like that but it should not take more than three days i read this in the what to expect the first years and it worked

Answer 10

Just take them away and give a sippy cup