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Bottle or sippy cup? Is there a distinction in this question? We switched to a sippy at 12 months and haven't completely dropped bedtime milk yet at nearly 2.5. We are definitely nearly ready though - he has less and less interest.

We have never done a bedtime bottle. I stopped the nighttime nursing session at 13 months and didn't offer a bottle in it's place. She's just 15 months but basically she gets her last bottle at 5:30 with dinner and she goes to bed at 7. Now I wonder if I should be giving her more before bed!

When we weaned.... around 14 months? She wasn't into cows milk.

8.5/9 months I think? He gets a sippy of milk with dinner, but then nothing after that.

She started refusing her nighttime bottle just before she turned 1. I was a little worried that she wouldn't sleep as long without it but it turned out fine!

@SleepyMonkey: we will be fully weaning soon (13.5 months) & I'm toying with just not replacing her before bed nursing session with anything. She hates cows milk &will sip soy milk but I haven't tried to replace a session with it yet. She loves her sippycup BUT I really don't know if she'll take a replacement at all if it's not in a bottle at least. How did it go for yall? Was it rough?

@Mrs. Sunshine: was a total non event. It went way more smoothly than I expected! We kept the rest of her bedtime routine the same, except no nursing before bed and no replacement with bottle or sippy cup. She went down normally.

She never had a bottle before bed, but I would nurse her. When she weaned at 13.5 months I just never introduced a bottle/sippy cup before bed. We bottle weaned at around the same time, so she gets a sippy cup of milk with dinner and that's it for the night.

He has a straw cup of milk that we keep around for the hour before he goes to bed, and he takes sips here and there, but it's not essential for his bedtime routine. After weaning around 16-17 months he was much more interested in playing before bed than sitting and drinking his milk.

LO last cup of milk is his first sleep cue not his last. So he first gets his bottle of milk, then straight to the bathroom to change diapers and put on PJs, brush teeth etc. Then of to his room for bedtime story etc. So the time between milk and bed is maybe 10 minutes.

With our oldest, gosh, so early I can't remember! With our youngest, around almost 2.5 years old. He still takes a morning sippy right after he wakes up. Otherwise, he won't drink much milk at all during the daytime. I try to add in calcium rich food during the daytime...but it's hard sometimes too! Or have him eat more cheese which he loves.

DD1 cut it on her own around 15 months. DD2 still likes milk before bed and she is almost 2! Why do you need to brush again? I give her some milk while I read bedtime stories and then brush her teeth afterwards. It is just one time...am I missing something?

After he was weaned from bottles at 12 months we never offered a nighttime sippy. If he's really thirsty before bedtime he'll ask for water.

This actually makes me feel like less of a parenting fail. At 23months, DD still has a bedtime bottle:/

Our goal is to somehow wean her and get her to go to bed on her own, in a big girl bed which we don't even have yet, before LO2 gets here in early May. No idea how we're going to do it!

At 13 months I think it is on it's way out. We offer a few oz in a sippy before nap/bed, but most of the time she doesn't really touch it. I do it more for my own peace of mind...I wonder if she'd even notice if we didn't offer!