Bottle free? I think we are home free!
Posted By pamelamyers on June 15, 2011
I am so sick of using bottles for Sam! The bottles I have are fine, they are the ones she has had since infancy (Avent, they are awesome), but seriously, she is almost 21 months old and I am over it. Besides the fact that I haven’t bought her any new nipples since she was maybe 9 months old and they are getting old and leaking and I just refuse to buy new ones. So, this weekend, Mark and I decided to try yet again to get her to stop using bottles and switch to sippy cups exclusively.
After her 12 month appointment, when our pediatrician ever so helpfully told us to cold turkey her and stop using them entirely (yeah, that was going to happen), we have tried a few times with no success. We did quickly get her to the point where she only gets 2 bottles a day, one for her nap and one for bedtime and that was a big improvement. But we couldn’t get her off the things. Sam was addicted! She would scream and cry and refuse to go to sleep without her bottle. As you can imagine, we aborted our efforts and gave in and gave her a bottle. But as I said, I am so over it. We started giving her a sippy cup full of milk before sleep and she has done great! No fits, no crying, just sleep. She doesn’t drink as much milk out of her cup as she did her bottle, but that is ok. We will just make sure to offer her milk during the day now instead of just water or juice (she doesn’t drink a lot of juice either, mostly water, which I am happy about).
Wish us luck! So far so good – she is handling the change like a real trooper and I think the bottles are gone for good!
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