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My son is 17 months, I live with My fiance' and his Dad. We are saving up money and should be out by summer, but until then, my son should be off of the bottle i know! But his dad is kinda mean when it comes to sleeping at night. Were expected to fall asleep or at least be quiet at 9:30/10:00. If he hears my son cry he gets mad and says he'll kick us out. I would live with my family but living arrangements for them are kinda crowded right now because my grandparents had to move in with them. How do i get him off the bottle when this is going on because I know my son is going to be upset for a little while, atleast a week. How do i get through these nights without upseting either. I want my son to be off of it. Hes a good baby, but he just loves his bottle in the middle of the night!

He sleeps through the night, and only has a nap once at like 2:00 pm. He just wakes, wants a bottle and goes back to sleep.

Answer 1

Well a few things here. As much as I am an advocate for getting children off the bottle as early as possible this is one of those different cases.
I would first of all sit down and talk to the dad. Explain to him your side talking nice as adult. Ask him how he would deal with it. How he wants you to handle it. And see if you can find common ground.
If not then I say keep the baby on the bottle until you are out on your own. Do not give it to him during the day or at naps. But at night when you absolutely have to keep him quiet and have no other choice then do it. I know it will make things tougher when it is time to get him off. But at the same time you do not want to expose him to negative feelings in the house, or change his environment etc.
I know its not easy but you have to do what you have to do.

Answer 2

Talk to him about it! Ask his advice, say you appreciate his help, and value his wisdom, what should you do? Maybe the old dragon will get a heart!

Can you not go away for a week? Take a holiday!

Failing that, a little while on the bottle only at night is not so bad. Good luck though! I lived with my in laws for a short while, couln't wait to get out!

Answer 3

I weaned each of my children at 9-10 months. Yes, it was hard, but harder on me than on them.

I just started buying sippy cups. (Walmart has them really inexpensive)I put milk/juice in the sippy cups and water in the bottles. If the baby wanted milk, he or she had to use the sippy cup. I gave them water at bedtime, and milk during the day. I had 4 children. After 3 days, I threw the bottles away. The key is to be CONSISTENT! Good luck!!

Your baby is old enough to drink from a straw, right? If not, get a shake-or other THICK drink- and take a sip of it yourself, just to get it started. Your baby will taste the drink, and figure out how to sip it through a straw.

Answer 4

all you need to do is sit down with the dad and tell him what you want to do and make him go tell his dad its gonna be hard in the circumstances but just take it a way slowly just put less milk inevery night until it is empty and that should work out for the both of them if not i am not sure cause i really had to worry about getting kidded out for a baby crying the man needs to understand that the baby is gonna cry at night and some times you cant make them stop

Answer 5

if hes not already on baby cereal then try it.. expecially at night. give him some in his bottle before bed n it should give him enough to sleep through the night with out wanting to wake up for a bottle n if he does try a pacifer or sumthing through the nite so u can get him quite faster then waiting for a bottle to warm n stuff...


good luck..

Answer 6

try to cut out naps during the day