Is there an easier way to get 21 month old off a bottle?

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But honestly theres no "nice" way to do it. Throw them all out except for one or two Give him the bottle when he first gets up and before bed the rest of the day only a sippy cup you know he likes. DONT GIVE IN! If hes really that thiristy he will drink it! Then the following week when he is comfortable with it take the morning one away and then once hes use to that take the night time one away and throw them away. U just have to stick with it once he realizes u mean it and hes not gonna get his way with the bottle he will give up and use the cup. Just hang in there and stick with it Good luck!

Take away one bottle at a time and replace with a sippy cup.

Put water only in a the bottles, and milk in the sippy cups.

Give bottles only with meals, and offer sippy cups the rest of the time.

Give milk in bottles, and offer juice in sippy cups. Once you know he has the hang of the sippy cups, use those for milk to.

You don't have to go cold turkey on it, esp. if you don't know for certain he can drink easily from a sippy cup yet. As a nanny I had to suddenly convert a 16 month old from bottles to sippy cups, and he was trying to pour the sippy cup into an icing dispenser, simply because it looked more like a bottle! I think it was a lot harsher on him then was necessary.

It should have been started sooner, but even now you don't have to just do a cold turkey approach. I would at least still offer water in the bottles, so he isn't suffering from thirst while trying to master the sippy cup.

I offered my twins sippy cups a couple times a week starting at 4 months, then gave juice in it for a bit at 6 months to make sure they mastered it, then replaced one bottle at a time with the sippy cups at a time when they were not likely to be very thirsty. There was very little fussing, and by 8 months they were on sippy cups.

I know it seems cruel but yes let him cry. My nephew is 15 months and we just took the bottle away except for bedtime. (we tried to take it at bed time but he would wake up every 3 hours for a drink)

He still gets an 8 oz of milk 20 minutes before bed in the bottle

At first he wanted nothing to do with the cup but if that is the only option he will drink out of it when thirsty.

You could try to slowly switch the milk (or whatever he is drinking) to like half milk, half water. Then go 1/4 milk to 3/4 water. Finally, when he is getting all water he might lose interest.

A friend of mine would dip the nipple in instant coffee grounds and then give it to her son! I thought that was kind of mean but it worked! He just threw it at her and said yucky.

You also could change nipples on the bottle and since he doesn't get the same comfortable feeling of his old bottle he might give it up.

I hate to say it but much of the time they have to just cry it out. It only take a couple of days but it seems like years to the parents!

Good luck and remember - most everyone has had this problem with their child!

I'd just say that Bottles are for babies and that he's growing up to be a big boy... or you could just say no more bottles and he may well cry and tantrum but it wont be forever.... (they grow so quick lol) and the health implications on teeth at this age and teats isn't good, which I'm sure your aware of. If you decide to handle the tantrums just keep telling yourself your doing the right thing.

My daughter had a dummy (soother) and by the age of two I told her that the dummy fairies were coming to take them for all the babies that had been born. It really helped with the tears. You could gather them all up with him and put them in a special bag (out of reach) and say that the bottle fairy will come and take them for the babies at whatever time of day you choose....:)

I wish you all the best with it anyway x

i think the easiest way is not always the nicest but it has to be done , with my daughter i showed her i was putting them in the bin i told her they were no good anymore and i showed her a new big girls cup which was fine until bedtime when she obviously asked for her bottle , i reminded her they were no good and in the bin , you will get tears alot of them lol but if they are in the bin at least there is no temptation for you to give in either

Unfortunately your gonna have to let him cry it out. Just get rid of them.