Thank you ladies.

I did mean just the bottle, not the milk. He has every other drink in a normal cup (i.e. milk if he asks for it specifically or water mainly but juice in the morning for breakfast) or water bottle. He loves his milk but seems to need the bottle as part of his routine.

Cookiemonster - I agree about the source of calcium being better with other products but DS1 refuses to eat cheese, even though he used to love it. He adores yoghurt and I have had to limit the amount he has in one sitting as I think half a kilo of yoghurt is way to much for his digestion to cope with at once. He just keeps eating and asking for more.

As soon as he has finished his bottle, he will give me the bottle or hop out of bed to put it in the sink if I am not in the room and roll over so he is not sleeping with it and I certainly do not let him suckle it for comfort (sorry, but I used to suck my thumb until I was about 5 and ended up having a fantastic set of bugs bunny teeth so I am very conscious (i.e. paranoid) of not letting my boys have something in their mouth for no reason - thank god for braces!!)

Thanks again!!