How do I get my 22 month old to stop taking a bottle to bed, and how long is too long to let her cry it out?
ByShe only has it at nap time and bed time. She drinks everything but milk in her cup during the day. I tried giving her a sippy cup with milk but she just keeps crying. Should I just let her cry or what? I hate when she cries =(
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February 3rd, 2010 at 4:00 am
i have the same exact problem with my daughter who is almost 19 months. she wouldnt drink milk in a cup only in a bottle and wouldnt go to sleeep without a bottle of milk and would wake up like 3-4 times at night for her bottle of milk. i finally just decided to stop the milk thing because i did not want her teeth to rot out so i have been putting water in a bottle for the last two weeks. she does wake more at night i think because it does not fill her up but or i dont know but she does take the bottle of water, i also worm the water up. and at dinner i started giving her milk in a normal cup with a straw and she takes it that way. good luck
im also letting her ween herself from the night time bottle of water, i see no problem with it since it is only when she sleeps and it is only water in the bottle.
February 3rd, 2010 at 4:41 am
Well, kids aren’t supposed to be in bed with a bottle. I would try giving her a sippy cup right beforehand and then to crib/bed with no cup or bottle. At least you will know she’s not thirsty.
February 3rd, 2010 at 5:23 am
My eldest used to go to sleep with the bottle, and then wake up for it. So I kept it in the fridge. She’d complain about it being too cold, and not drink it all. Eventually (as winter approached!) she stopped waking.
I then asked her to choose – bottle, or her favorite story. She chose the story, and I hid the bottle. The next night I simply asked which story she’d like to read… About a week later she asked for her bottle again and I gave her the “are you simply mad? You’ve NEVER had a bottle look”. She was about 1.5 yrs at the time.
From about 3 months they shouldn’t need any extra feeding at night (my baby book says so, though I never believed it until my second came along and slept through at 2 weeks!), but I’d also try diluting the milk until it was just water, and then adding lemon juice to the plain water. You’ve got to get to the stage where it’s just not worth waking up for!
February 3rd, 2010 at 5:45 am
I have the same problem with my son, he’s almost 18 months old! I can’t let him cry for too long because we live in apartments and i know the man that sleep in the room next to my sons can hear him. If i have heard a phone vibrating coming from the apartment next to my sons room then i know they can hear him screaming and crying at night! Not that im glad but it makes me feel “better” to know other mothers made the “bad choice” of allowing their child to go to bed with a bottle of milk. And you know what?? I have just come to notice that i think it’s gas that wakes him up screaming and crying and it’s just the bottle that comforts him back to bed! I can hear him passing the gas i just can’t believe it took this long to figure that out. I guess because he only gets the gas at night. I gave him gas reliever but he still woke up that same night…
EDIT: I don’t know where to even start because it’s the fact that he lays in bed drinking a bottle that gets him to sleep not drinking milk. So letting him drink the bottle of milk while not in his crib and then putting him in this crib will NOT work! It’ll be to harsh on him so im REALLY lost on how to end this habit!!
February 3rd, 2010 at 5:48 am
i made throw their own bottles in the garbage after explaining to them that they are “big boys now” and that they should use a cup that i similar to the one that mommy is using.and i rewarded them with a movie that they like and/or toy that they been wining for!
February 3rd, 2010 at 6:07 am
Here is what I did:
I got my kids on a schedule and stuck to it as much as possible. 7:00pm was their bed time, 12:00 was their nap time.
Then when it came time to take the bottle away, I just removed it completely and gave them sippy cups. It’s going to be a long hard battle if you let them have it sometimes and not others. They will not understand.
But, since it is their nap time or bed time and they are used to going to sleep at that time so they will be tired and it won’t take them long to go to sleep. They will cry for a while, you just have to walk away. They are not hurt or in danger, they simply want to have their own way.
The biggest mistake mothers make is putting the baby to bed with a bottle instead of giving them a bottle and putting them to bed.