How do I get my 19 month old off the bottle?

Question

Here is the problem that I am having my son wants the bottle all the time. I have 6 month old son that has a bottle and my 19month old will just go and take his bottle. My 19month old son also perfers the formula over cows milk because that is what my other son has in his bottles. So how can I get my 19month old off of the bottle with there still being bottles in the house. I am so frustrated with this I dont know what to do can someone please help. He will drink from a sippy cup and regular cup but when he is mad or tired he will just go and take his brothers bottle. So I need some help please.

The father is around the hardest part is that the father works 60+ hours a week so I am alone with the children most of the time.

Answer 1

There's no reason to wean your 19 month old from the bottle. Best thing to do is make sure both babies (remember, your 19 month old is still a baby) have different bottles. Maybe you can go to the store and get him special "big kid" bottles that are just for him and to use at certain times of the day (morning, before or after nap, and before bed). We didn't have our daughter stop drinking from her bottle until she turned three. She wouldn't have understood why we were taking it away. For a couple of months before her third birthday, we started talking about the bottle fairy. On her third birthday, she left her bottles on the window sill for the bottle fairy who took them in the middle of the night and deliverd them to new babies that needed bottles. She left brand new sippy cups in return.
Oh...and when you give your kids bottles, snuggle with them. If you're holding your six month old when he's drinking his bottle, your other son won't be able to take it away. Before she gave up the bottle, I arranged it so all three of us (my 2yr old at the time and newborn) were able to snuggle together for bottles on my lap. Share the lap vs. compete for it.
Good luck. I know it's tough having 2 so close together.

Answer 2

Just take it away. You tell him that your baby needs the bottles, and that big boys don't have bottles. And if he won't drink milk, heat it up, and put strawberry or chocolate syrup (Mine preferred strawberry) in the milk while warm, and that's what he gets...period. You're going to have a MAD KID on your hands, because I know how that sibling rivalry thing goes, but you just have to do it. He should have probably been off the bottle months ago before the baby got there...but now's the time. Next time, if there is a next time, you know better!! :)

Good luck!

Answer 3

it would of been best to take his bottle before the baby was born , but too late for that now ... you got to be strong and firm . hes not going to give it up until you put it in Ur mind that Ur not going to give it to him any more.
you might have to put up with a couple of days and nights of bawling but that's about it. its got to be done sooner or later anyway , might as well do it now . don't keep the baby's bottle in reach all the time feed the baby and put the bottle up . tell the older child that's for the baby and stick to it . in 2 days from now it can be alot easier on you once hes broke . the baby's about big enough to start giving it a sippy cup too . try altering the bottle and the cup for the baby too it will be easier when the time comes.
remember bottles are for feeding not pacifying .

Answer 4

keep the younger baby bottles away from his reach. Sit the older brother cups lower so he can find and reach them. Even when he gets made just let him get mad and explain that his cup is over there and maybe try mixing the the baby formula with regular milk and add more reg milk as time goes on and remember ur the parent not the child

Answer 5

i would introduce these new sippy cups that they have at walmart they are a soft rubbery tip that helped my son because it wasnt such a change so fast because they even have nipples for them that are some what simular to bottle nipples . and for the taking away of the infants bottles i would have him sit only for a few minutes in time out and let him know that taking bottles from the baby is not nice and also not sanitary. it will be hard but its definetly time to get rid of the bottles at that age because of i believe its called bottle rot were the front teath can get cavitys because of the constant sucking from a bottle. i hope it goes ok for you good luck.

Answer 6

if he drinks from a cup the rest of the time, but the bottle when he's tired or mad, and you give in, you're just letting him have his way! take the bottle away, give it back to the baby, and if he screams, put him in a time out. hopefully, it'll work. does your husband help? after all, two babies coming that soon apart is rough. tell him to take the 19 mth old into a different room.

Answer 7

i might pick which trabsition initially. once you are going to do the mattress first or the bottle. attempt to no longer do the two on the comparable time. The complicated answer is user-friendly yet annoying for human beings to do. you ought to throw the bottles away and forget with reference to the crying. as long because of the fact the youngster gets interest-unfavourable or beneficial they are going to proceed and that they are going to proceed for extremely long classes as long as they recognize ultimately they are going to be rewarded. staying power is a distinctive function and so is understanding that crying isn't an illustration of soreness or suffering to that end, it rather is purely an illustration that the youngster is getting to understand that they are no longer allowed to have what they like. this is a good lesson somewhat. I recomend you examine somewhat approximately extinction and extinction bursts to coach your self. to start, right that's a link

Answer 8

Sounds like he used to be the baby, and now that he's not anymore he wants to be like the baby too.

The best thing is to just reward him for acting like a big boy. Maybe take him to pick out his own sippy cup so he'll be excited to use it. When he asks for formula, tell him "No, that's for babies..here's your big boy milk!"

Answer 9

Stop giving him the bottle and take the bottle AWAY from him when he takes it from the other child. Yes he is going to cry, yes he is going to whine. That's par for the course, you have to be consistent.

Answer 10

Its fine. No reason to take away something that comforts him. It'll just make it so theres one less thing to quiet him.

Babies can go upto 4yrs still drinking out of bottles! thats about as long as I would let it go.