Anyone know a good way to help a toddler get rid of the bottle??

Question

I have a 19 month old son who will not lose the bottle and I want to try to get him off of it before he turns 2. I have tried just taking it away, lets just say that was not working. Any Ideas??

Answer 1

ok i have 2 ideas first as one of the other answers said the nuby cups are really good and they work well for a while but seeing your son has teeth he will probably do as my son did and bite holes in them and then well they are no longer spill proof so I would suggest the soft top sippys from Gerber we switch to those and he could bite them and the plug held the milk in till he learned how to blow out the plug then it was time for the hard ones. This is a great transistion cup.

Also I seen this done where you get your son to put all his bottles in a bag tie it up in a tree and say that the bottle fairy will bring him a present if he give the bottles to her. Then put him to bed then run out cut it down throw them away and replace with a wraped gift so when he gets up he will have a present and hopefully give up on the bottle and take the new sippys good luck hope it works for you!

Answer 2

You have to make the alternative look better. Buy one of those real neat sucky cups with the snap on lid. Some are a dual plastic with water inbetween with little fishes swiming or some other fancy eye catching accents.
Show the baby that you are pouring his milk from the bottle to the cup. Ask him to try it. Only let him see this special cup when he is drinking from it. Do not let him have the bottle plus the cup. Show him you are substituting the cup for the bottle and tell him he is all grown up now. Praise him when he takes the cup without crying for the bottle. If you can find any photos of kids with a sippy cup show him (magazines or books or on the product). Tell him only little babies use bottles but he is grown up. Kids always want you to treat them older than they are.

If this does not work for you. You can put a tiny bit of hot sauce (tobasco) on the nipple. It will not hurt him and if he gets the taste of it and crys he will still be fine (as it is a food and will not harm him just tastes bad to him). You need to keep doing it everytime he grabs the bottle have a dash of tobasco on the nipple. It wont take long before he associates the bad taste to the bottle. Each time have a sippy cup with his favorite drink.

good luck

Answer 3

He should already be off the bottle. Find some cute sippy cups and give him his milk in it first thing in the morning (don't make a big deal about it - don't say anything - just hand it over). When he complains, ask him, "don't you want some milk?". When he fusses, tell him "you're growing up, cups are for growing boys". Do NOT give in and give him a bottle under any circumstances. If he is unhappy with the sippy cup, offer him (sitting down at the table) a regular child size cup with no lid. He might like that even better. It will be harder for you this time than last, since he already believes that not cooperating will earn him his bottle rights. Learn to be deaf. This is only the first lesson (for you) in being the final decision maker. He will continue to test you in every way you can imagine. Be confident that you are doing what is right and he will learn what is acceptable and what is not. If you waffle, he will learn to throw tantrums or whine incessantly for years. You are the adult. When he goes to bed tonight, wash all his bottles and put them away in a bag out of sight. Don't take the bag back out until he is happy and well adjusted to his alternate drinking cups. Then, you can tell him you have a surprise ... let him give the bag to Goodwill (to an actual person there who will take it from his hands) for other "babies" to use and you will then take him to the store part to choose a new "kid" toy for him. You can do something similar with pacifiers too, if you use them. We got rid of those on my daughter's 2nd birthday. She put them all in a ziploc bag, went to the grocery store (I called ahead) and gave them all to the lady in the bakery. Then, she chose an item/toy (cake topper toys) to receive in return. My daughter was so PROUD of what SHE had done. Only one time did she ask about her paci's again, and I told her she had given them away and if she wanted them back she'd have to go ask and take back the toy she had traded for them. She decided she was happier with her Dora see-saw toy. Good luck!

Answer 4

ok I have been there twice and will prob at least once more in the future. This is not easy and the fact he is 19 months will make it harder babies are suppose to lose the bottle at 1 year due to teeth development. Get some nice sippy cups ( let them pick them out) ditch all bottles . For 3 days you will go through hell but I promise he /she will take the sippy cups nite time will be the worse but they will change over.

Answer 5

There is a sippycup by Nube that has a silicone nipple. It is shaped like a sippycup but feels like a bottle to the kids. I have used it on all three of my kids to help them make the transition. We used those cups for about three months and then went to regular sippycups. If this doesn't work for your son then you may need to do it the cold turkey way. For most kids the bottle is a comfort thing, so if there is anything going on that might be upsetting his normal routine wait abit until that is taken care of. And find something else he can use for comfort, a teddy bear or other stuffed animal.

Answer 6

There is a Nuby Sippy/Bottle it has a Nipple/Mouth piece. It is a silicone (nipple) mouth piece that resembles a straw. I think that it is ideal for the transition from bottle to sippy cup. It is completely removable like a bottle nipple. I would use this one for Milk to start and then just make it dissappear as soon as he has the hang of the sippy sup with a soft tip. Then buy the sippy with a more firm tip.

Nuby 12oz No Spill Sport Sipper with Soft Silicone Sipper

http://www.babybungalow.com/nu12oznospsp.html


This one I would use for juice, water,
http://www.babybungalow.com/nunosp8ozcup.html

Answer 7

I took my daughters bottle away from her at the same age, it was just a couple weeks ago. I just let her be mad, and ignored it. I told her she was a big girl, and gave her a sippy cup. Its gonna be harder on you than them, so just do your best to not baby him. If you respond to tantrums and whining, you are teaching them they can keep doing it to get their way. Throw away ALL his bottles, so you cant give in. It might be hard for a while, but he will forget, and you will live

Answer 8

My mom told me the pigs took it. I truely believed her and I was 3. But we had a farm.
You might want to take him to the zoo and while your gone have someone else get rid of all the bottles at your house. Only take one bottle with you to the zoo. While he's looking at the animals at the zoo, sneak his bottle away from him and throw it away. Have a sippy cup with his favorite beverage on hand to replace the bottle. Just tell him whatever animal was the last one he looked at was the one who took it.

Answer 9

When your at home take it away and give him a sipper cup
and if he start crying give him his bottle, but cut the tip of the nipple so there will be a bigger hole. Hopefully he'll get nauseated
and toss it away. and when he does clap your hands and give him a healthy treat. When your out and about take him his cup
plus some munchies to keep him satisfied. My grand-daughter
used to cry with my daughter and myself (Grandma) because
we would take her bottle away, but with her dad it was a different story, he told her if she wanted a treat she had to throw her
bottle away and she did. We couldn't see why she didn't listen
to us when we said the same thing. But try it and see what happen. Remember just keep finger foods around for him so he
can get full and little by little he forget about his bottle thats when you throw it away. Let him cry himself to sleep, sounds mean
but it works, he'll get used to it.

Answer 10

Seriously, jsut take it away, Throw all of his bottle away and deal with the screaming, etc. It will only last a few days and that will be that. That is what I did with my kids and it took them 2 days and they forgot about the bottle after that.