https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:48:39 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-rid-of-the-bottle-at-2-years-old#post-2066501 Thu, 12 Feb 2015 12:59:22 +0000 78h2o 2066501@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-rid-of-the-bottle-at-2-years-old#post-2066470 Thu, 12 Feb 2015 12:47:22 +0000 Sophs Mama 2066470@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@78h2o: OH man. I hope she's the same, she is SO GOOD at screaming. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-rid-of-the-bottle-at-2-years-old#post-2065576 Thu, 12 Feb 2015 05:51:59 +0000 78h2o 2065576@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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.</p> <p>We are expecting another LO in May/June, so hopefully she will be fully over them by that point. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-rid-of-the-bottle-at-2-years-old#post-2065574 Thu, 12 Feb 2015 05:34:21 +0000 TheSwissWifeStyle 2065574@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Can you do like, "the bottle fairy" or something? Make her an active part of it? Have her leave her bottles in a box at night, and then when she wakes up in the am, they have been replaced by something special, just for her. Only have this idea bc that's what my mom did with me for bottles and diapers, except it was Christmas Eve. She said it worked! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-rid-of-the-bottle-at-2-years-old#post-2065474 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:15:28 +0000 Sophs Mama 2065474@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks everyone! I can get rid of hers because we use different bottles for the new baby, but she is just so strong willed. I'm afraid of screaming fits at bedtime... Argh! We might have to try soon though.. But I think I'll wait until her molars have come through then axe them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-rid-of-the-bottle-at-2-years-old#post-2062607 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 13:07:59 +0000 2PeasinaPod 2062607@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started with water in a sippy at 12 months and cut the bottle at 18 months. Our issue is that LO always took milk from a bottle, but never would take it from a sippy. Even with taking the bottle away, he won't drink milk from a sippy. He's almost 2.5 now and still won't drink milk. We make up for it with cheese and yogurt. </p> <p>I agree with others though...if she knows where the bottles are, you're never going to be able to break her from them. Either pack them away somewhere that she can't find them or throw them away. It leaves her with no other option. It will be hard at first, but she'll get the hang of it in no time. While we were breaking DS of his binky, I would explain to him that he didn't need it, and he was a big boy now. You might be able to explain to her that she doesn't need her bottles anymore and they were given to a baby who needs them? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-rid-of-the-bottle-at-2-years-old#post-2062599 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 13:03:30 +0000 PurplePeony 2062599@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-rid-of-the-bottle-at-2-years-old#post-2062587 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 12:58:08 +0000 hellobeeboston 2062587@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We still do 1-2 bottles of milk because LO insists (2 years old) and we are planning to just put them away and quit cold turkey. He doesn't get them before bed, only when he's crabby/sad and when he wakes up in the morning (most days).... To quit the bedtime bottle we started putting water in the bottle and he would take that, then it just phased into a sippy cup of water. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-rid-of-the-bottle-at-2-years-old#post-2062557 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 12:48:14 +0000 Mamasig 2062557@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-rid-of-the-bottle-at-2-years-old#post-2062388 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 11:21:33 +0000 glitterboots 2062388@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son is 3 and still takes a bottle before bed. He sits quietly in his chair, drinks a bottle and reads a book, then brushes his teeth and goes to bed. Honestly, I am hoping it's something he grows out of, but I'm not pushing it. I wish I had sooner, but I didn't! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-rid-of-the-bottle-at-2-years-old#post-2062336 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 11:02:57 +0000 Alivoo01 2062336@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-rid-of-the-bottle-at-2-years-old#post-2062221 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 10:14:39 +0000 bunnylove08 2062221@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We weaned DD off the bottle by giving her a bottle only when she would sleep. Then we dropped it at nap time. by 18 months we told her we ran out of milk and she wined but we gave her extra cuddles and she was okay with it and never went back on the bottle. </p> <p>We enticed her by letting her pick out her cups and putting juice and milk in the cups. We started her on a straw cup with water only and when she was 1.5 let her have some water down juice. She loves the color purple and pink so all her cups are that color. We also have character cups for her which she picked out and usually requests them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-rid-of-the-bottle-at-2-years-old#post-2062149 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:40:19 +0000 wonderstruck 2062149@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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.</p> <p>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! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-rid-of-the-bottle-at-2-years-old#post-2062119 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:23:48 +0000 blackbird 2062119@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We dropped the bottle at 12 months but started by offering her the straw cup and eventually just ended up hiding the bottles. She started drinking less milk but she soon figured out that if she wanted milk, it was only going to come one way. </p> <p>I would try it on a Friday night maybe? Just "out of sight, out of mind" and see how it works. If she knows she's going to get a bottle, she'll hold out for it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-rid-of-the-bottle-at-2-years-old#post-2061971 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 08:17:11 +0000 hotchildinthecity 2061971@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-rid-of-the-bottle-at-2-years-old#post-2061959 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 08:06:41 +0000 Sophs Mama 2061959@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No one? Shit, maybe it's just me. :bummed: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-rid-of-the-bottle-at-2-years-old#post-2061168 Mon, 09 Feb 2015 14:50:14 +0000 Sophs Mama 2061168@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 2 year old (2 years 3 months) still drinks a fair bit of milk, and loves her bottles. We've recently purchased her some training cups that fit her bottle nipples (Avent natural), but she is still fighting us on the cup. I'm tempted to just throw away her bottles because if I offer her the cup, even with her bottle nipple, she runs over to the drawer and grabs a bottle and insists on it. </p> <p>I'm afraid that if I switch to the cup cold turkey that she'll freak out and not sleep at bedtime and nap time. </p> <p>Ugh, does anyone have a similar experience? How did you solve this dilemma? </p> <p>I have a 3 month old, and I'm super tired of washing so many bottles and nipples. </p>