How old was you child when they stopped the bottle?

[minimatron]

Janie...the nightmare was only for about 4 days. I said to her that mummy is throwing away your bottles coz your a big girl now. She cried for it but I just persisted. See what we were doing was giving her milk in bed to go to sleep and I didnt want her to do it anymore, so it was actually hard to change it around. So I sat her down with a cup after bath, then we went in for a story. Its working fine now. The only thing is this week coz shes been sick, shes asked for the bottle...so definately a comfort thing. I think why it worked quickly was because I was ready to make the change!

[Rach75]

jack was same only used bottle for milk everything else was in acup or sipper

he all of a sudden about 3mths stopped asking we haven't used a bottle since, he has occasional milk drink in a cup now but he just wants water I am one for when they are ready they'll let ya know

[shellbell3]

Ash will be 3 in Sep and we still use bottle at bedtime, I haven't even tried getting rid of it so don't know how she'll be but atm it doesn't bother me her having it. Like you same thing she drinks her milk gives me bottle and then goes to bed, so from that I don't think there is any harm.

[Emma1979]

when my little one was a little over two (so just recently now that i think of it) i got the teats out of the dishwasher and cut them up with scissors, then put them back in..... then when she was watching i made a big deal about 'ohhh look the dishwasher has ruined your bottle tops' etc etc, so she saw that they were ruined.... i then used her bottle with one of those green avent spout thingies, which previously she had refused to drink her milk out of.... but once she knew the other bottle teats were ruined and gone, she then reluctantly drank from the green spout, and now there is no issue....

it was very easy actually, i thought it would be a huge drama.... you just have to give them a valid reason why they aren't having their normal bottle anymore, so that they understand, anyways thats what i think.... did the same with her cot too, said we were giving it to a baby she knew, and she helped dismantle it.... in fact i'll probably use this tactic with everything, it makes a lot more sense than just taking something away that they love and hoping they are okay with it.