my 1 yr old son to bed with a bottle?

Question

UGH i feel like im failing as a mom when i put my son to bed with a bottle. I know its bad for his teeth and im just stuck!> He wont take a sippy cup for anything!!! but he will drink out of a straw a few sips.. but then hes done with it. Im a first time mom and ive got stuck putting my son to bed with a bottle and now im in rut!! How do i quit this?! Just wait till hes dead tired and falls asleep on his own then put him in his crib. Me and my hubby are staying with his mom to help her and i hate to let him scream for an hour and wake everyone up!? has anyone else ever had this problem? or am i the only one!. If your gonna call me a bad person dont bother answering.

he wont take a bottle of water either.

Answer 1

Either throw out the bottles and let him cry for a few nights, or feed him before he goes into the crib--in a rocking chair or something in the dark, brush his teeth, and stick him in the crib with a sippy of water. Get the soft spout sippy cups. He won't take the cup because he knows you'll cave in and give him the bottle. Don't give him the bottle all day and give him only a sippy. It'll be a battle of wills at first--make sure he gets plenty of fruit to eat because he needs the liquid. Slowly water down the milk in his bottle until he doesn't like the taste anymore and he may give it up on his own. He should only have a total of 8-16 oz of milk throughout the entire day.

Answer 2

You're not a bad mom! This is minor on the scale of things to worry about. I would try this...today or tomorrow, start implementing a routine for bedtime. Say, take a bath, read a book, rock for a minute, in the crib with a bottle. Keep repeating this and gradually reduce the amount of milk in the bottle. And make the room nice and dim in the book and rocking stage and talk about going to sleep. As you are weaning down the bottle, you are getting him used to the routine of sleep, so when you take the bottle entirely, he will still have that routine in place to signal that it is bedtime. And then, you will just have to cut the bottle out entirely when he is only getting a bit of milk in it. And he might have a little issue right at that time, but I would not think it would last long with the routine being established. And rest assured that plenty of other mom's get into this rut as well :)

Answer 3

Sweetie, we've all been there! I work in early intervention and the speech pathologists always told me no bottles after 12 months, but for both, I didn't get rid of the night bottle until about 15 months. They both still like a little drink before bed, but it comes from a straw, and before story time.

It just feels so good to get them to sleep peacefully, doesn't it?? With both my kiddoes, I found that I just had to finally get rid of the bottles entirely, because if they shunned the other types of cups, I would go straight back to the bottle and then they learned that I was unsure - therefore they would take the familiar bottle over the unfamiliar cup. Try just doing a straw during the day and letting him have his bottle at night for a little bit - then one day, just bring that straw cup to bedtime and see what happens.

You are not a bad mom - you just have a sweet little guy who knows what he likes!

Answer 4

I asked a query some days in the past approximately whilst is a good age to eliminate the bottle and each of the solutions i've got been given back have been at a million yrs of age. I do trust this.. Your son would not could desire to drink 3 bottles for the period of the night besides the reality that i understand its greater handy to furnish him a bottle so he is going back to sleep yet what i think of could be taking place is not greater bottles!!! Sippy cups are great and in case you introduce them in a chuffed exciting way then 9 circumstances out of 10 it makes the baby sense all grown up and excited. there is no reason your son could now stay wakeful for the period of the night in case you place the attempt in and positioned some regulations into play. the final analysis is endurance. If he wakes up and gets off the mattress you in ordinary terms positioned him immediately back.. the 1st week is the toughest yet you would be shocked at how briskly he will learn. you will additionally earnings from having a astounding uninterupted sleep. good luck

Answer 5

You're not a bad person, the whole sleeping thing is really hard on us parents. You're right about it being bad for the teeth to put a baby to bed with a bottle. Best case scenario, and what I tell all the parents I work with, is to give the baby their last bottle, then brush their teeth, then put them to bed awake, but sleepy. If he cries, rub his back, sing to him, do whatever but dont pick him up. Leave the room and go in every few minutes as long as he cries, extending the time, 2 min, 5 min, 10 min, etc... until he's asleep.

Answer 6

Let's see I nursed it took me two months to ween my son my best friend had a botte/pacifier baby. She just took the bottle away a little before her first bday. She gave her a sippy cup of warmed water-milk and it worked. I gave my son wattered down juice in a sippy cup at night but I worked with him all day with it. I didn't spring it on him at the last minute. The experts do say having anything to bed is not a good idea but you have to start with something and ween them. I eventually got him to drink ice water in a sippy cup then now its ice water in a regular kid cup. My childs teeth are fine. He has had ear infections but his Dr. said that they weren't from me nursing him or from the sippy cups. Just work with him with the sippy cup.....I started of with the soft tops then move to hard ones. You could also during the day make the sippy cup more desirable with his favorite beverage and his bottle with ice water. At a year he probably still likes warmed drinks and now he can drink whole milk.

Answer 7

I'm with Danny on this one. My daughter is 17 months & still takes a bottle to bed. She drinks her milk then throws it to the side when gone. I do always check though that she doesn't sleep with it sitting in her mouth. My son did this til he was 2. I just make sure to brush her teeth as soon as she wakes up. Btw, my son has beautiful, straight, white teeth. I honestly wouldn't worry too much about this, he won't drink it forever, imo 12 mos is still a baby & should still get a bottle if they want it. He'll give it up eventually. And don't worry what others think, I sure don't.

Answer 8

they have sippy cups out there that are shaped like bottles and have different size nipples so that you can change them, they are really good for transitioning to sippy cups because the tops are silicon and the bottoms are still shaped like bottles, but the silicon tops are really sippy cup tops just soft like a bottle top, i never had to use them as my son didn't care what he got his formula or juice out of as long as he got it lol... but you could try that.. my best friend got a few for her son and loves them, and whenever your ready you can change the nipple to a higher stage... my son is 15 months and takes a sippy cup to bed with him, and i'm trying to break him of that because its not just bottles that can hurt their teeth, its the sippies too... some babies will keep the juice or formula in their mouth while sleeping and it causes bad teeth... i haven't taken it completly away because i think its a security thing for him, but i have started putting less juice in there to try and wean him off, i use to fill it all the up now i fill it only one quarter or half way depending on what size the cup is and he has a secuirty blanket to that way when he's done with his sippy he has something to cuddle with... (just some ideas for when your ready to get rid of the sippy cup too)... but for now try using the transition bottle/sippy its really working for my friend because the baby thought it was a bottle at first, and it's given him plenty of time to get use to it, you could also try only giving him a sippy during the day when no one is asleep and not offering a bottle at all... when he's thirsty he'll eventually drink out of the sippy cup and get use to it... the regular sippy cups with silicon tops are also good when switching too... i know what its like to want to leave the baby crying in the middle of the night when living with other people and its tough lol... good luck

Answer 9

Hi,
If your son needs a bottle to sleep then let him have it.

There is too much of this "No Dummy by * age" & "Out of Nappies at * age" or "Walking by * age" etc.

He will give it up eventually, I assume that he only has a bottle at night?
Some parents still give a bottle to their children during the day at nearly 2 years.

At the end of the day, it's up to you as a parent to decide, follow your instinct.

If you want to start to wean him off, try giving him a half size bottle (if you haven't already).

Another thing you can try is to use a slower flow (smaller hole) teat,
if it's hard work, he'll probably give it up sooner.

Hope that helps

Danny