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Hi! My son came from Korea 10 weeks ago drinking only out of a bottle and now drinks out of hard top sippy cups. It's totally possible. And yep you have to take away the bottles cold turkey. If they know you have them, they'll wait you out.

My guy didn't really like the avent bottle trainer but we had success with the Nuk with the silicone top. Then we switched to the ones with the hard tops and now we're working on straw cups.

If they know holding out or having a fit will get them a bottle, that's what will keep happening and you'll be stuck in this cycle. We bagged them all up when I was pregnant with LO #2 (DS was about 14 months old) and he had fits, threw it, and refused to drink much, if anything, for about three days - we loaded him up on other dairy like yogurt and cheese during that time. At that point he finally accepted that we really weren't giving him any other choice, and he gave in and started using the sippy cup.

Honestly, it's probably going to be harder/take longer because you can't get the bottles out of sight, out of mind because the baby is still going to be using them. But I would at least move them to a different spot that the toddler can't access. Cold turkey is probably the only way though, you just can't cave!

DS is 18 months and will take the sippy cup/straw cup if we're out and about. At home, ever since he was a baby, we put him in the baby bjorn bouncer chair when he needed milk. So now, he associates that chair with milk in a bottle. If we give him milk in anything else, he refuses and demands a bottle. We're trying to break that association. Great that he goes to that chair when he wants milk, but boo on demanding it be in a bottle.

I did cold turkey at 12 months. Yes, his milk intake decreased for about a week. But after that when he realized milk now comes in sippy cups, he went back to normal. Stay strong! My mom was ready to give him back his bottle after day one since he barely drank milk. I told her a few days of less milk won't kill him.

We stopped bottles at 13 months, but DD still nurses ~4x per day. Daycare got her to drink from sippies and she'll take water from straw cups at home. On weekends, she drinks a little WCM from straw cups but mainly gets her milk from nursing. Still, if she sees a bottle she WANTS IT. A couple new babies just moved from the infant room to the 1-2s room and she had a rough couple days because she saw their bottles and thought she should have them. So "out of sight, out of mind" is really the best way we've found to break the bottle addiction.

@Sophs Mama: I feel your pain. DD started using sippy cups around 12-13 months during the day at daycare, but she still requested them at home first thing in the morning and before bed. She used Avent natural too and likes the Munchkin straw cups from Target best. We finally put the bottles away last week at 2 years 2 months. She did throw a few tantrums and had a few sad crying episodes, "I want the babas...sob...sob," but I was surprised how quickly she moved on. Only 2 days maybe after they were all out of sight.

We are expecting another LO in May/June, so hopefully she will be fully over them by that point.

@Sophs Mama: mine too. When I handed her the milk in a sippy, she would scream, "No, not that one!!!! I want the baba!!!!!" I would try to reason with her...."You're a big girl now, etc.," but my husband just told me to set it on the table and say it's there if you change your mind. Sometimes she'd throw it, but usually she'd go back after 5-10 min of screaming about it and starting drinking it...and that was that. I admit, I didn't like the screaming, so half the time I left her with DH and hid in the bathroom with the fan on to block the noise and played on my phone.