both my kids are born in august, just one year apart.. 1 & 2 years old... before i had my son i was in the process of getting my daughter off the bottle, she got off the pacifier fast, but the bottle is harder because everytime he has a bottle, she wants one.. now im trying to get both of them off the bottle but they wont drink anything other than water in a sippie cup...they will only drink milk in a bottle. i cant even get my son off the pacifier, if he doesnt have it, he cries like somethings trying to eat him, i swear....
2007-01-03 10:36:48 · 8 answers · asked by thick_shakes 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
It's time for the Pacifier Fairy to pay your kids a visit! Make it into a huge game, telling them that the Fairy is coming for their bottles and pacifiers to give it to the new little babies and that they are big kids now. The Fairy will leave them a present when she comes to collect their bottles. Get them all excited and revved up for this, just as you would for Christmas with Santa.
In the evening, take them into the garden or wherever you hang the Christmas stockings and let them lay all their bottles and pacifiers out for the Fairy and take them to bed. In the morning, take them back to the same spot where you will have left 'big kid' sippy cups as well as a nice treat.
Don't bring out the bottles or pacifiers again. They're gone now and if your children cry for them, remind them that the little babies are using them now and they're big kids. Make them seem all wonderful for giving the bottle to the babies.
This is what worked well for getting my then two-year-old cousin off her pacifier when it looked like nothing would work. You do have to remain firm and not give those bottles back though. If there's whining, get some stickers and distract them by decorating their new sippy cups.
2007-01-03 10:43:17 · answer #1 · answered by starchilde5 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first of all you should have taken the 2 year old off the bottle before you decided to get both off. Sometimes they still need it, it's okay to let them stay on the bottle or even a pacifier at one year, it's just a different pace that each child individually adapts without it. One is young to be trying to get off the bottle, and bringing a new baby into the process of getting the other off the bottle is almost impossible, it's not a smart thing. Bringing the new baby in makes the other sibling feel neglected and less special because if they can't use it than they think the baby shouldn't either so it will make it 10x harder now because of the neglected feeling in the begining.
2007-01-03 18:41:58 · answer #2 · answered by Lexis 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Put it this way if you give your child milk in a sippy he's gonna cry until you give him the bottle and I know its easy to give in and just give him the bottle but then your never going to get that bottle away from him. You should just give them the sippy cups with a half a cup of milk say to them if you drink all of your milk from the sippy then I will give you some water or juice leave it at that if they start crying then too bad. If they are thirsty they will drink out of it. Be patient they will get the hang of it.
2007-01-03 19:35:07 · answer #3 · answered by BabyDolll128 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i weaned my son (at the time 15 months old) down to one bottle a day, bedtime, and then a week later took it away
he cried like a dickens, but i didnt give in and he accepted the sippy cup because there was nothing else.
to help with the giving in thing, throw all the bottles away! that way you seriously dont have anything to give them and you wont give in. if you feel like a bad mother for letting them cry, i asure you that you are not a bad mother, but a very good one for helping them adapt and tolerate change.
2007-01-07 17:55:34 · answer #4 · answered by Darleen W 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, but you have to do it cold turkey. Weaning at this point won't work, it only confuses them as to why is a bottle ok at this time of day, but not at another. Take all bottles and pacifiers away NOW. Be prepared for crying and fit throwing. Stay calm and in control. Comfort them, but do NOT give in. I swear, if you stick to your guns, they won't even remember these things in three days. (They will be long days though)
2007-01-03 18:46:38 · answer #5 · answered by Jewlgrl 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
leave the bottle until hes 3 not 4 3 because the first 3 years are for growing the bone whit milk in a bottle and the when hes 3 give him a closed cup
2007-01-03 20:53:31 · answer #6 · answered by ashley s 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'd try a NUBE cup. They have soft silicon tops, like a bottle. They are a great transition.
2007-01-03 18:53:42 · answer #7 · answered by Melissa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do it "Nanny 911" style- cold turkey!
2007-01-03 18:40:36 · answer #8 · answered by Honesty given here! 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋