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@Mrs D: I would just cut it completely, because even though she's decreasing right now, an illness or upset night will make her want the comfort of a bottle again.

We had 1 bottle of milk (hemp milk) that we were still giving until right before LO turned 2. I was determined to cut out all bottles, and LO would sometimes take less but then go back to taking more and wasn't making any signs of dropping it on her own (she never dropped a bottle on her own, at any point). So I just stopped offering it. It was a rough 3-4 nights where she would cry for "big milkie" (I guess in her mind, the straw cups were small milkie, who knows), but I stood firm and she got over it. She did wake up a couple of times overnight asking for big milkie too, and my husband was ready to throw in the towel, but I pushed through and within a week, she stopped asking and forgot all about it.

Now, at 26 months, she doesn't care about baby sister's bottles at all. It's as if she has totally forgotten she ever took bottles. She DID however, totally stop drinking milk, but we give her a supplement, so...oh well.

By that age I would think it was time to cut the bottles, so I would follow her cue. I'm not a huge fan of bottles after 1 personally though, so I switched both my LOs to sippy cups at that age and it didn't affect their sleep. By the sound of it, she is more than ready