I want to take the bottle from my daughter before her 2nd birthday in january I have sippy cups and try to use them even bye the expensive ones with her favorite cartoon "sponge bob square pants" she uses them but just for a minute. what can I do to wing her off the bottle before her birthday? Or is it best to just throw all the bottles in the house away? Please help Im a single 1st time mom with know one to turn to!!! Thanks.
2006-11-22 07:16:25 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
When my daughter was that age we had the same dilemma.
we managed to get her to part with all the bottles & dummies by telling her that if she allowed mummy & daddy to give them all to the Fairies, the Fairies would give them all to the Fairy babies who needed them much more than she did and they would leave her a present for being so good and kind.
It worked! She left them all on the dining room table one night as agreed and when she woke up in the morning, the bottles had all gone and "The Fairies" had left her her very own see-saw! She was amazed and delighted and not once did she complain about not having those bottles!
We still talk about that even now some 11 years later! It was a lovely memory.
Good luck
2006-11-22 07:29:17 · answer #1 · answered by LadyTraveller 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The easiest way to take a sippie cup from a little girl is to show her that the bottle is not made for her. Tell her that big girls use sippie cups and not bottles. Does she go to pre-school? Usually if she sees other kids her age don't have bottles she will want to be like them and be "grown-up" My daughter is 2 and has been off the bottle since she was 11 months old. But that was because I taught her that the bottle was for babies and sippie cups were for big girls. And now she is going from sippie cup to a regular cup. You will have to get rid of all the bottles and give her the sippie cup. She will cry and fuss, but that is called a tantrum. You need to learn to ignore those ( if you haven't already learned.) Give her the sippie cup or sit it where she can get to it, and when she gets thirsty and realizes that is all she can have she will take it. It will take some time, but she will learn to drink from it and not want a bottle anymore.
2006-11-22 08:24:39 · answer #2 · answered by angels_killed_me 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
eeek... our doctor said try to get it away before 15 months... so we did at 12 months. They said it is very hard after 15 months because they become more and more attached. It took us 3 days, a weekend, but we did it... let her cry... she will be thirsty enough to want the sippy cup after a while. I always had my son on my lap when he had the bottle.... so when I used the sippy cup instead, I had him on my lap... he cried a little at first... but I just sat there with him... he did eventually take the cup! It took a good 15 min of us just sitting there though. He would cry each time for the first 3 days, but it became less and less- not the 15 min. it was the first time... and then finally, he took it without a cry at all. I took all the bottles away- put them in storage when I did this, that way there was NO way, he would get one...and so I wouldn't give in.
GOodluck!
2006-11-22 07:22:55 · answer #3 · answered by m930 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
throw them away. I did this when my daughter was 11months old. I gave her a sippy cup and made sure that it dripped so she'd get the idea to suck on it to get milk and it took about 3 days. because she was so young i kept a bottle just in case she was having a hard time with it, i didn't want her to go thirsty but sense your daughter is 2 years old i'd throw them all away and tell her its either a sippy cup or a real cup. by this age they can handle a real cup. it may be messy for a week or two and she'll soak a few shirts but she'll get it. explain to her that she outgrew a bottle a long time ago and that she is a big girl and needs to use a cup.
2006-11-22 11:28:56 · answer #4 · answered by Lena 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First off, you're about a year behind. Bottles should be gone by age 1. To do this you need to get rid of every bottle and only offer the option of the sippy cup. When she is thirsty and realizes there are no more bottles, she'll drink out of the cup. But this will be much harder for you since you gave her 2 whole years to get used to the bottle.
You're only doing her teeth damage by allowing her to continue use of this.
2006-11-22 07:44:01 · answer #5 · answered by camoprincess32 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Integrate the sippy cups in more. When she asks for milk, put it in a sippy cup. I weaned my daughter off the bottle at 19 months. She was already taking sippy cups fine, but I was giving her bottles for nap time and bed time only. One night we went out, and I had forgotten the bottle. So, I gave her milk in a cup, and she took it and went to sleep. When we got home that night, I just hid all the bottles. It worked great. Best bet would to try that method. It's harder for some parents than it is for others. Good luck!!!
2006-11-22 07:29:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try using the bottle only for water and reserve the "good" stuff (milk, juice, etc.) for the sippy cup. She only gets the good stuff if she drinks out of the sippy cup. This way she gets to make a decision and have a little ownership over the process. If she's anything like my son, she is not going to want to drink water exclusively and will "decide" to use the sippy cup.
2006-11-22 07:25:49 · answer #7 · answered by Angela 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok what we did with my niece (I watch her all the time so basicly have rasied her the past 6 months.) was we got her the soft tip sippy cups and only gave her bottles at night time or if she was too fussy in the morning. Then we took away the bottles and only gave her the soft tip sippy cups in the night and mornings. Now she just takes the normal sippy cups. It worked for us maybe it could work for you. It was alot of crying for awhile but she now doesn't even remember the bottles. Shes 15 months by the way. We took the bottle completely away at 13 months.
2006-11-22 07:23:56 · answer #8 · answered by Kimi is 31 weeks 1/7 w/#2! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try letting her drink from a real cup by mouth or using a straw, she may find it fun. I was lucky that my 21 month old son took the sippy cup transition very good at 10-11 months. Introduce these cups in a different way. Share your cup with her, only let her drink from a sippy during meal times. Maybe she will be willing to make this work for the both of you by then.
Make sure you keep those bibs handy or just let her get dirty doing it.
2006-11-22 08:01:12 · answer #9 · answered by yu247365 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My daughter is 15 months..and we are right now at the point of getting rid of the bottles. I started her off by switching her to a sippy with the nipple like top. They sell them at wal-mart in an entire kit. It comes with the nipple, sippy top, and even a sportster top (kind of like a straw). So that way the cup stays the same, it's just the top that changes. kind of easier to get used to when it's not the entire thing thats changing but just a part of it. My daughter is doing really well with that. I've done the same thing with all 3 of my kids and it's worked pretty well. I mean they all were upset about it at first..but then they realized that was their only option and eventually took to it. I think the longest one held out was 3 days.
2006-11-22 07:37:13 · answer #10 · answered by mandy b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋