What age did you stop your toddler from having a bottle...

[TaRhLi.]

I'm wanting to get an idea as to when I should stop giving my 22 month old DD a bottle.

She only has 2 bottles a day, in the morning when she wakes up and in the evening before bed. She has sippy cups and drink bottles of water during the day but she associates the bottle with waking up and going to sleep.

I didn't want to stop giving her a bottle when her brothers were born as I didn't want her to see them having bottles and associate that they had "taken" them from her but now she has no problems with seeing them using bottles.

Sometimes during the day when she is overtired, cranky or having teething symptoms she will ask for a bottle and I tell her that only babies have bottles during the day and offer her water instead and when she goes to bed in the evening she will have a bottle of milk and then we have to put her drink bottle of water in the cot with her so when she wakes in the night for a drink it is close enough for her to get.

At the moment I'm still happy for her to have the bottle for comfort but at what age should I look to give her a cup of milk instead of a bottle of milk.

[loulabelle]

I think its totally up to you. both my kids still have milk in a bottle. Ds just at bed time and dd in the morning also. I know people probably think my 3 year old shouldn't have one still, but I dont mind because it calms him before bed and its our chance to have a cuddle.

Do what feels right for you. in the long run I really dont think it matters.

Hth xxx

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[skybie]

DD2 still has one at nap times its her cue that it's bed time. It works for us

[starangelk]

We got rid of DD's at 12 months and she was the same as your DD, just having them twice a day and otherwise from a sippy cup. Our reasoning was that we didn't want 2 having bottles at the same time. It was seriously so easy and not a big deal at all, we just gave her a sippy cup of milk instead. She didn't even seem to notice since she already was used to the sippy cup and in fact, I think she liked it more because she was able to drink the milk faster.

[Olive]

its only a problem if YOU think its a problem!

[Tinks]

We got rid of the bottle at 12 mths with all 3 kids. I started giving them their milk in sippy cups instead.

[Beach Mama]

What Olive said.... We recently got rid of the night bottle and he is 34 mths and still has one for his nap, it is somewhat an association for sleep but now he is a bit older it's easier to negotiate a Milo cup before bed instead. Dont do it because you think you have to, do it when she's ready. Xox

[Now we're 3]

Is it the milk you are wanting to stop or the fact that she has her milk in a bottle? I am assuming it is the bottle? Reason I ask as you could find that it is the milk she associates with waking and sleeping and not what she has it in ITMS? My DS who is just a few weeks older than your DD has 3 "milks" a day in the morning, after lunch before his nap and at night before he goes to bed. He has this in what ever I grab - sippy cup or straw cup and its definitely the milk that he wants rather than what he drinks it out of so like Starangelk said you could change to sippy cup and she mightn't even notice.

Either way IMO its not a problem how she drinks it. Don't know if she is using a open cup yet but you could introduce that for water during the day as well as her sippy cup.

HTH