How do I get my toddler to...?

Question

I have a 1 and a half year old toddler to get off a bottle at night? she uses a sippie cup in the day time but goes to bed with a bottle and also she like to take off her diapers when shes wet but won't use the potty...How do I get my daughter to learn to go to the potty and off the bottle at night ???

Answer 1

as for the bottle-you just need to take it away. Throw them all away. Then you wont be tempted to give in. It may result in some temper tantrums and lost sleep but you'll be over it in a few days.
If she is flat out refusing to sit on the potty then she just isnt ready yet. Try putting a onesie on over her diaper so she cant take it off. If she truly hates being wet so much maybe she will decide that she no longer wants to wet her pants.

Hope this helps!!

Answer 2

Getting her off the bottle is easy. Throw all the bottles away. And if you cant afford to throw the bottles away because of planning to have other children, then put them in a really hard place to get to. So you dont just run and go get them. My daughter was 15 months old and on a bottle at night. There was only one bottle left and one night the nipple broke... there was no more bottle. She cried and cried at bed time for about 2 weeks, but eventually she realized the bottle was gone and wasnt coming back, so she adjusted. Also, don't substitute the bottle for a sippie cup at night. You are trying to potty train, she'll never make it thru the night dry if she's drinking 8 ounces of fluid right before bed.
As far as potty training.. I've learned that each child is different. If she takes off the diaper when she's wet, that tells me she is uncomfortable and you should use that to your advantage. Put her in regular clothes. Play clothes of course. Every 30 minutes TELL her to go sit on the potty and try to be a big girl by going pee pee in the potty. Don't ask her, because more than likely she is going to say she doesnt have to go potty or she doesnt want to go potty. She's two, have her sit on the potty for about 2 minutes and then have her get up. On the occasions that she uses the potty or you see her running to the potty to try (whether she makes it in time or not) you should reward her with praise and perhaps a little sticker. Eventually she will learn to recognize when she has to go potty soon enough to get to the potty. Hope this advice helps. Take care

Answer 3

She may be a little young to use the potty. I would worry more about the bottle. 18 months is a little old for that. Get her a nuby sippy cup (with a silicone spout) as a transition. Don't give her the bottle. You can do this cold turkey. Eventually she'll figure out that she isn't getting the bottle back.

Also, you shouldn't be giving her anything but water at bedtime. Kids will hold the liquids in their mouth and it can cause tooth decay.

The potty thing is another story. She may not be ready for it. You can try this method: Spend an entire day at home. Do not go anywhere. Pump her with as many fluids as you possibly can, and make her wear underwear. Every 15 minutes (you have to be consistent with this) have her go to the potty. Praise her everytime she goes. I have been told that this method works wonders. I didn't use it with my son, but I know people who have used it successfully.

Answer 4

i find it harder to let a toddler stay on the bottle at night it is either bottle or no bottle, what i did was take the bottles completely away and just use a sippy cup there will be a few bad nights but it does get better. for potty training i let my son pick underware or pull ups and make it a big deal when he went to the potty. giving a treat or new toy helps big time. make it all about them.

Answer 5

one at a time... taking two things away from her will cause her to need the others so just try one at a time. sticker charts for potty traing work well but make sure she's ready. signs for that are like she squats to go, she holds it until she is ready, finds a private place to go.
the bottle is a harder one to handle. you need to make up some story about giving up the bottle so all the other little boys and girls out there can have some bottle instead. and give her a gift from the magical bottle fairy when she wakes up in the morning after a night without the bottle. she will throw a royal fit when trying to convince her and she sees no bottle in sight but you must stick to your guns!! or else she will know that she can yell and cry and get her way. good luck.

Answer 6

I wouldn't worry about teaching her to use the potty until she's actually interested in it. I take a very hands-off approach to potty learning, and 4 of my 6 kids learned between 2 and 2.5 years with little trouble. One was a bit stubborn (he's like that with EVERYTHING though), and he took until between 3.5 and 4 to get it all figured out, with more hands-on help from me. My youngest is now learning all by herself, very little assistance from me at all, at 33-34 months, almost 3 y/o. She's a little later than the others, too, but the reward of it being all her idea, all her own motivation, is that I have to do very little but remind her every so often if she hasn't gone, and help her wipe & wash her hands.

What I do when a child is taking off their diaper at night is put them in a snap-crotch t-shirt ("onesie") under their jammies. Or one-piece sleeper jammies if the weather is cold like now. That seems to work well.

For the bottle, she is still a baby who likes to suckle to fall asleep. Babies are wired with the need to suckle for at least 2-3 years. This instinct once ensured that they would nurse for at least that long, so they would have a better chance at survival when conditions were harsh and infant mortality was high. There is a risk of developing tooth decay with bottles, though, that isn't there with breastfeeding. Milk drips from the nipple all night and pools around the teeth with bottles, while the breast's nipple goes to the back of the child's palate and no milk comes out unless baby is actively suckling. Any milk that may come out (such as, if mom lets down out of the blue), causes the swallow reflex to kick in immediately. So bottles at bedtime do have that one negative aspect attached to them.

Many mothers have had success by starting to water down the milk little by little, until eventually there is only plain water in the bedtime bottle. Just be patient with it. Don't try to start off with 1/2 and 1/2, you know? Go a little at a time, and wait a few days in between each further dilution. You should have a content baby safely drinking water only from her bedtime bottles within a few weeks!

Best of luck!

Answer 7

May be a little soon for the potty thing...most parenting gurus say 24 mos...but you are close.....and probably on the right track if you have her doing this much already.
she might be ready for pull ups, especially the ones where they "feel" the wet....developmentally she may not be ready for the rewards of big girl undies and prizes...but she will be soon!!! As for the bottle, my son actually threw his in the garbage at 18 mos.....lol.....the little bugger had it and dropped it in the dirt so I said yuck we better throw that away and off it went....at night I reminded him it was in the garbarge...assured him he was such a big boy ...and after only one night (and not long) of fussing we were done...but this was by no means a technique....I think I got lucky....the point is...look for windows of opportunity... how are you getting through nap time? Once my kids got to the 24 mos potty training stage, I stopped drinks at bed just to help them get through the night.....this may just resolve itself as the two come together.... Best of luck

Answer 8

Shes kind of young for potty training yet. I would wait until shes two at least. Buy a sippy cup she can take to bed with her. Then slowly ease her to water instead of milk and soon she wont want it anymore.

Answer 9

from past experience tackle one at a time it will be easier on you both i used to buy my boys the little spouts that you screw on gerber juice bottles i would put that on their bottle that way they got used to a sippy at night but still had the comfort of their bottle then i slowly would try to give them a sippy in the middle of night when they were to tired to realize it

Answer 10

Just take the bottle away, don't give her a sippie at night either. Her teeth are going to rot.