How do I get my 2 1/2 year old baby girl OFF HER BOTTLE?!?

Question

She loves her bottle, but It is time to say goodbye to it! I tell her no more bottles and she starts crying and won't stop! I take it away without telling her and she goes crazy! Trust me I tried almost everything. Even big girl cups: Dora, Sponge bob - Nothing works!

Does anybody have any helpful advise?

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Answer 1

Say something like if u drink out of this cup you will be big girl or you will grow.

Answer 2

Try using a sippy cup earlier in the

day.  It's just a cup for toddlers.  They

can be purchased everywhere.

Give her the cup with her favorite

drink.  Let her get use to it.  

Still, give her the bottle,  but

less.  Allow her to drink out

of the cup more.  

Answer 3

my DD was almost 2.5 before i got her off the bottle, she was a nightmare, in the end we had too put up with the crying. gave her stickers if she drank even a small amount off milk from her cup. then she could choose a small present when she drank properly.

it took about two weeks for her to drink milk again. it also helped we had another baby due, and although i breast fed i told her he needed the bottles, it still took a lot of convincing.

Answer 4

Try this book it really helps

http://www.amazon.com/Bye-Bye-Bottle-Mup...

Also here is the "Suppernanny" technique

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWX8GDa1o...

Answer 5

If there is a certain drink she does not like only allow that in her bottle. Tell her that's all that she can have in the bottle and if she gets used to it just do the cold turkey deal. Yeah it's crappy but it's the price we pay for being nice...i should know...my 2 yo wont go to sleep at night without daddy rubbing her back!!! (I warned him)

Answer 6

You're going to hear alot of cries, but cold turkey at her age is gonna have to work. Flat out refuse to give her bottle back. Put whatever she likes to drink in a sippy and leave it where she can reach it. When she gets thirsty enough she will go get it. Just keep showing her where the sippy is and she'll learn. Best luck to you.

Answer 7

Try putting something on the nipple that tastes bad like vinegar.

Answer 8

Well my son is not yet 2 and he does not use a bottle anymore. when i took him off it i went to the soft nippled cups. i dont know the name of them. They have a soft spout for drinking... then once he was chewing on them, I stopped with them and used only the hard nippled ones. he soon learned he was not getting them anymore. it is important that you stick with it. Take her to the store buy them and throw them away. she wont see them and she will stop. offer her the cup and if she refuses to take it walk away and leave her in the room with the cup. She will drink it soon. if she dont drink it... its her choice. i would not worry she will get over it soon when she is thirsty enough!

Be strong and let the others in the house know what is happening. Stop the bottles to bed as well... since she has a cup now... she does not need anything to go to bed. She is old enough to understand that she can not have a cup!

Answer 9

only put water in the bottle and just a small offer her a cup with milk when/if she still wants more

Answer 10

I had to do the same thing when my Daughter was this age. It was hard, but I started by taking one bottle away. I had to listen to the crying and carrying on, but pretty soon she didn't miss it and then I would move on to the hardest bottle last. Her night time bottle was the hardest so I left this for last. It took 2 nights of me being up with her fussing and crying, but once she knew I wasn't gonna give in she stopped. It took awhile to get her use to not saying bottle, but heh it is something that eventually has to be done.

Answer 11

Honestly, and I'm sure you know this already, she should have been weaned off the bottle by 15 months old or so.  At this point, maybe some tough love?  

You can also try only giving her one at night before bed, then gradually reduce the size of the bottle before completely removing it.  Crying won't hurt her, it just makes you feel terrible, and it's a source of control for her in a world that very little is controllable for her right now.

Answer 12

I would just throw all her bottles away, she will eventually get over it.

Answer 13

Basically it is the cold turkey method. Take them all and put them away and do not cave in when she cries for them back.  She will have to get use to no bottles and will eventually start using a cup.

My pediatrician here says no bottles after 1 years old, and to do the cold turkey method, so I would think it would be the same for 2 1/2 years old, just harder since she has had it longer.  

Answer 14

WOW, you should have done that when she was turning a year old.  My daughter is almost 2  (21 months) and has been taking a sippy cup since she was 13 months.  We just stopped giving her her bottle.  She is going to get mad, u just have to deal with it.  But remind her that this is a good/positive thing.  If u take the bottle away and she cries and u give it back, she knows she is going to get her way, so everytime u take it away she is going to cry until she gets it back.  Next time, don't give it back.  Make her something to drink in a sippy cup and let her know if she is thirsty she can drink out of that.  Don't give in or she will be on the bottle until she is 5.  I know it makes u feel bad when she cries, but crying isnt going to kill her.  If she is thirsty enough she will drink from that sippy cup.