My husband wants the binky to go. I've been told the bottle should be gone around a year. What's a parent to do?
Is it okay to pull them both away at once, or should we time it? Which one first? How far apart?
2007-03-04 10:18:23 · 6 answers · asked by ? 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
He's still taking formula, just out of a sippy cup.
2007-03-04 10:58:26 · update #1
i personally wouldn't do them at once. both of these things are familiar and provide security to the child and to take them away cold turkey is a little tough.
i would do the binky cold turkey first. it is important to take it away now because if you wait it becomes purely a habit and very hard to break. i know from experience!
the binky will be forgotten within a couple days. night time will be the hardest but just don't have them around so you don't have the option of caving and giving it to him.
another good thing is that he will have the bottle to comfort him if he gets upset still. the same sucking action.
i would wait a few months, around 14 months to start weaning the bottle. we just started using a cup during the day - not having the bottle around at all in sight helped us out. we still let him have a bottle at night before he went to bed. it was comforting and he was definitely full before he went down. he slept better.
after the daytime bottle is fully gone let him having a drink in his cup. you could also offer water in the bottle and milk in the cup and see which he chooses.
he'll be fine. it is only a couple days of torture. :) good luck. SD
2007-03-04 13:52:20 · answer #1 · answered by SD 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My daughter would not use a binky, and she was breastfeed (and went right to a sippy cup at about 10 months), so I did not have this problem... BUT, some of the women at Gymboree told me some of them broke the binky habit by cutting the tip off of it. With the bottle they slowly introduced a training sippy cup... The cup took some time (about 2 months), but from what I understood the binky problem was solved pretty quickly.
Good luck.
EDIT.......... I just saw another persons question about giving up a pacifier, I thought you would be interested in the answer...
"Take her pacifier and snip a tiny bit of the end off, every couple days, more & more, until the suction is gone. She will no longer want it & it'll be a thing of the past. It really does work".
2007-03-04 11:06:53 · answer #2 · answered by jordansmom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take The Bottle Away Completely And Slowly Wing Off The Binky. Use It Just For Nap And Night Time.
2007-03-04 10:22:44 · answer #3 · answered by Candace w 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You absolutely do not want to pull both away at once. That's too much for a child, and too much for you! I'd move away from the bottle after the first birthday. We let our son have binky any time up to a year-and-a-half. Then reduced to naps and bedtime. At two we let him have at bedtime. Then at three we tried to ween from the binky. When he was two, the dentist said it would do more harm to take the binky away before he was ready because he would resort to sucking his fingers. That would cause real trouble, so we took the dentist's advice and waited until he was three. He's a well-adjusted six-year-old now that goes to sleep on his own and has beautiful teeth! By the way, he never sucked his fingers.
2007-03-04 10:40:40 · answer #4 · answered by heel75 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was told a child should be off the bottle by the time theyre 15 months. My child is 19 months and she still needs her bottle just at night sometimes to go to sleep. I just fill it with water so she doesnt get tooth decay from the milk sitting on her teeth overnight. She still has her bink too. My mom has 3 kids-my older sister got the bottle taken away when she was 1 and my mom regrets it. She cried and cried for so long but my dad was determined to keep her off the bottle. My younger brother and I had a bottle until we were 2 and we gave it up a lot easier than my sister did. And my friends son had his bink until he was 2. They told him that when he turned 2, he wouldnt be able to have his bink anymore and he said ok. They put it away on his second birthday thinking he was going to cry and want it back but he never even noticed it was gone. If you can get your child to break both habits before s/he is 2 great. But I think letting them keep it until theyre that age is ok.
2007-03-04 10:38:53 · answer #5 · answered by Amanda 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You could do them both at once but you might end up with an insecure child.
one year old seems a little young to take away the bottle. But if you want to you might want to do one then the other.
good luck
2007-03-04 10:22:21 · answer #6 · answered by Brittney U 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋