help!! i cant get rid of the bottle?

I have a 22 mo. old. I took her off the bottle on her 1st b-day. I pretty much weaned her off of them. She had a couple rough days (maybe 2 or 3) and then like with anything she got over it. Basically, my advice is stick to your guns. Take them away. Even if they get cranky…distract them. Be strong. A positive note is that they have both taken to sippy cups during the day so you know they can use them. Most children have a hard time weaning the bottle especially @ nap time and night time. That is their comfort thing.

Btw, 3 years old is WAY too old to still be using a bottle.

You really have to be tough on this one. I know it’s hard, but you have to understand that a couple of days of whining is less harmful than what you will be punished with later. The sucking on the bottle can change the way the teeth are growing so she will need braces later on. Not fun for her and expensive for you. Her teeth can also get destroyed from whatever you have in that bottle, especially the one you give her at bed time. If you don’t take her up to brush her teeth afterwards and she has something with sugar in the bottle, she will have that sugar on her teeth for 10 hours. Sugar gives cavities, it will hurt her when she needs fillings in her teeth and it will again be a high bill for you to pay. Some kids even need crowns on their baby teeth because they drink juices in their bottles or sippy cups! If the kids are thirsty they should get water! Let them only drink milk or juices when they are sitting at the table and out of a cup as early as possible. (Sippy cups are not much better than bottles if you put something else than water in them.)

There is a trick to quick get rid of pacifiers or bottles. You can get a product called “Stop n’ bite” in the pharmacy or grocery store which you normally put on the fingernails to stop biting on them. Well, it works on the pacifier or bottle as well. You paint the liquid on the part she will put in her mouth (put it on all her bottles and pacifiers, because she will test them all!) and when she takes it in her mouth, it’s tastes really bad. I did it for my oldest daughter and she quit her pacifiers within five minutes and never wanted them again. I just told her that when a kid is too old for them they start to taste bad.

Good luck and just think about that you do them a big favor for what you are doing. It’s hard, but it’s only hard for a couple of days. Get rid of those sippy cups also after a while, they are really not much better. Or at least, only put water in them.

well, you just may have to quit it cold turkey, Especially with the 3 year old. She is way to old to be having a bottle. It will effect her teeth if you don’t .

Just take it away for both. Tho with the one year old i would let her give it up on her own. MY daughter stopped taking the bottle around 18 months. Had she still been on it, i would have taken it away cold turkey when she turns 2.

But it may be hard letting the one still have it and not the other. So you just may have to take away from both cold turkey.

It usually takes about 3 days and they will forget it. But it’s going to be a long and tough 3 days, you just have to have patience and tolerate it. But don’t back down, or you’ll never get them off of it.

We just switched from bottle to sippy cup. The kids were pretty upset but when we showed them the cupboard, there were no bottles. So we set a sippy cup out and said whenever you want it, take it. It took a couple days, but they eventually wanted their juice and milk…

We waited until our youngest was one and a half and she got sippy cups from then on…

Be firm… don’t give in… and the kids will get over it.

best way to do it is to throw them away, you wont use them if you don’t have them, for the baby i would find a soft top sippy cup, for the three year old, take her to wal mart let her pick out her own big girl cup and get her off the sippy cup, give her a cup of her drink before nap or bed time, its gona be hard to get into a new routine, but you can do it

just suck it up, and take them away. my son didn’t want a sippy cup either, so i threw all the bottles away, and if he was thirsty he had to take the cup, it was hard with the screaming and crying but you have to do it. also when my son turned 2 i took him off of going to bed with a cup, that took about 5 days of screaming at night, but i didn’t give in, and after about a month he quit asking for it altogether. good luck

Source(s): mother of 2 yr old and 2 month old boys

My son stopped using a bottle right after he turned one. Bascially you just have to take it away. Eventually they will just get over it. A 3 year old on a bottle is not good at all. It will ruin her teeth and the longer you wait the harder it’s going to be to get her off of it.

Source(s): Mommy of 1 TTC #2

I had issues with my daughter getting off the bottle I asked my doctor and she said out of sight out of mind so I tried it. I would not give her a bottle at bedtime and OMG it was horrible she cried and cried but I just ignored her like the doctor said and didn’t give in and a week later she wasn’t using the bottle. That was the hardest week ever!!! but at least the bottle went away so it was worth it.

Source(s): mother of two

My mom took my sisters bottle away and it was horrible. She told her the cat took it and she finally got over it. My sister would fuss at the cat when she saw her telling her he took her bottle away. My also told another sister she threw the bottle out the window of the car. They soon got over it!

I agree with the others to quit cold turkey. The child will get over it in a couple days. But if you are having trouble enforcing, then you need to box them up and donate them to goodwill or something. Once they are out of the house the problem will take care of itself.