How do you get an 18 month old to stop using a bottle?
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My mother in law said she packed up all the feeding bottles one day and decided to introduce the sippy cup.
What Will happen is that your baby will probably refuse the bottle for a couple of days or less after which he will understand that he has no choice.
Just make sure you get the bottles out of sight, if possible out of the house as eighteen months is pretty old and he will be kind of aware of his surrounding.
I wish you the very best and i advise that you remain firm.
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Take it away and suck up the 3 days of crying! :)
replace it with a sippy cup...they have to stop some time. just give her the sippy cup and refuse her the bottle...she will get over it
You just gotta stop giving it to him. He'll cry, or scream for it for a few days, sucky I know, but that will break him of his habit. Before bed give him water from a sippy cup.
give him a sippy cup let him cry your child cry eventually he will have to stopThrow the bottles out! Have her help you throw out the bottles and explain it is time to be a big boy/girl and have a sippy cup handy to show.
My cousin did this with her daughter and it went great!
take the bottles off and endure the crying, as long as it lasts... no bottle means NO BOTTLE. this is how i got my daughter off the bottle. give a sippy cup during the day, give her the bottle at night for about 2 days to get him/her use to the sippy cup. then take the bottle away the baby won't want the bottle any more tell your kid that the sippy cup is for big kids my daughter to the sippy with no problem
A child that age is too young to reason with or convince, because there isn't much logic. You just have to get him to use the sippy cup. If you want to try to make it positive, try taking him to a store and giving him a choice of sippy cups. If he likes the cup then he's more likely to drink from it. Also try getting a picture of him on a sticker and putting his picture on the cup. My friend did that with her child and it worked.
Have him/her help you pack away all the bottles and keep saying "Bottles are bye-bye" so they know what is what and then be prepared for a couple of days and nights of crying but just keep them busy with other things, if they really like their bedtime bottle offer them a snack at that time so they are not hungry when going to bed. Good luckSource(s):
mother of two
What i did with my child, is took the bottle away for a hour and gradually placing 2 hours and 3 hours etc into him not having it. During that time if he was thirsty i would give him a cup, if he didnt want it then it was tough. He would scream and scream. Some mums thinks it cruel but usually their the mums who usually have their child at 5 still asking for 'num-nums'. I told mine that the Easter Bunny needed them to feed his babies. Mine LOVED his bottle so much that he used to carry 2 of them around at all times. He helped me put all of his bottles in a bag, we took them to the post office and mailed them to the Easter Bunny. I didn't replace it with yet another thing I would have to get rid of the next year, that just causes more things to have to take away from your baby. The Easter Bunny sends my son a thank you note every year with pictures of his baby bunnies growing up. My son is 9 and still looks forward to the letters even though he knows I am sending them to him. He actually reminds me to take pictures of bunnies for the next year.
Take the bottle away
Dont justtake it away, THROW it away, have NO bottles in the house, it works with pacifier too !WEIN THEM OFF OF IT, LIKE DURING THE DAY JUST GIVE THEM A SIPPIE CUP AND AT NIGHT GIVE THEM A BOTTLE AND THEN EVENTUALLY GIVE THEM A CUP AT NIGHT. I DID THAT WITH BOTH OF MY GIRLS AND IT WORKED> GOOD LUCK This might sound crazy but it works, If you will look on a bank calender and see what sign it is in, you will be able to take way the bottle and the baby will never know it. I think the best time to do it is in the breast, thighs. My grandmother did it with all of us. Just try it. Good Luck and I hope it works out for you.
I worked at a daycare for a year in the infant room and I think the best way to get a baby off of the bottle is to start by putting their milk in a sippy cup to wing them off of the bottle they might cry for a couple days but make sure to throw all of the bottles away or keep them out of the sight of your baby and most importantly don't give in.
I would just explain to him/her that the bottle is going bye bye because s/he is a big boy/girl now and need to drink out of a cup like Mommy and Daddy. Emphasize how big s/he is getting to be and how proud you are of him/her.When I took my daughter off of the bottle I went to Wal-Mart and bought a soft nipple sippy cup. The brand I bought was Nuby. You can google it and see what it looks like. I put formula in it (at the time she was almost 12 months old) to get her to drink out of it. That is the only way I would give her anything to drink. Absolutely no bottle. It worked after a day or two. She also had a pacifier at the time to that helped her when she needed to go to sleep. But 3 months after she got rid of the bottle I took the pacifier away and I didn't have one night of her crying to sleep. Email me to know how there were no crying nights. dissatisfied812@yahoo.com trade it for a cup with a lid and handles so child can hold it in his/her own but watch out for spills on floors and carpets when the cup is left on its side
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