We just stopped Olivias bottles last month...so at 2 years and 2 months. It was my choice really because she was drinking so much and needing to have the bottle to sleep. I wanted to change the routine around so we could start thinking about tt. She still asks for her bottle and all I say is that shes a big girl now and has to have a cup. Initially it was a nightmare, but we are all good now.
Well, despite swearing the bottles would be long gone by now, DS (26 months) still has one in the evening . TBH, I am so relieved that it's only one, and he loves it so much, I don't have the heart to take it away from him.
However, as a dental nurse, it really freaks me out, and I worry about his teeth. I don't let him have it in bed, or go to sleep on it though. I'd like to think we can get rid of it by 2 and a half, but I said that I'd like it to be gone by 18 months and then 2 and that didn't happen, so I'm not holding my breath.
sophie had one after lunch from about the ages of 16 months to 26 months, one day i put the cleaning brush through the end of the teat and that was the end of a bottle! she was fine!
Flynn broke his (glass) bottle when he was about 28 months. Ollie still has his (at 19 months).
I, on the other hand, had one til I was about 4. Turns out I used to get out of bed when my dad got up early for work and he got into the habit of giving me a bottle while he made his morning coffee. I don't think it ever occurred to him to wean me earlier LOL!
My DS no longer has a bottle at all. His source of fluids is mostly water in a poptop bottle which he tends to retrieve himself and letting us know when he wants it
We stopped around 13 months. He eats enough yoghurt and cheese to not need the milk and both of those are a better source of calcium. Milk takes too much other good stuff to break down IIRC.
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. TBH, I am so relieved that it's only one, and he loves it so much, I don't have the heart to take it away from him.
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