How to get your two year old off of bottles

mine still does a bottle before bed 😥 we do bath, bottle, books, brush teeth and then bed. i’m scared to take it away too but i know it must be done asap

I’d just tell him he’s too big and have him help you throw them away, that way there’s no going back on it for either of you 🤷🏻‍♀️ If he wants milk, he’ll drink from a cup, if not they don’t need milk as long as they’re getting other sources of dairy at this age

We took all of my daughter’s bottles away at about a year old. She was too young to talk and protest so it was easier that way. I’ve found that when getting rid of things like that, cold turkey is the best way. It helps them adjust much faster. You could mess the nipple of the bottle up a little bit and then show him and say “uh ohhh your last bottle broke! We don’t have anymore now, we have to use a sippy instead” or something like that.

My 2 year old loved his bottle before bed i got him to stop like 2 months ago! I just brought a sippy cup instead for bed he’ll take a few sips then lay for bed sometimes he would be fussy without the bottle but theyre going to be fussy you just gotta power through😅

I took away milk and juice and told my then around 2 year old that if he wanted milk or juice he needed to take the sippy cup. I’d give him his bottle with water in it which he hates plain water.

My first was the same. I let him have a bottle until 2.5 or so because I had a kiddo 18 months after he was born and knew it would be hard cutting him off when the baby still got bottles. I ended up cutting them both off cold turkey and it was awful for a couple days. But honestly it was best in the long run. I suggest just stopping and putting them away so they dont see them readily available and just offering sippy cups or water bottles. Its not fun for a day or two, but doesnt drag it on for days/weeks.

Ohhhhh man, I just got lucky, lol One day, he asked for his bottle, I gave him his sippy cup, he handed it back and asked for his bottle. I told him that's his big boy bottle, and he just accepted it without complaint and never went back to a baby bottle again. Pure. Luck.

We actually lost our bottle on holiday when he was 2.1yrs old. Literally couldn’t have it and had to have milk in an open cup! So we stuck to it!!! Now he has a few sips with a straw but asks for water. Don’t overthink just take it away. He has been drinking from an open cup since he was 1 - just at night we had the bottle fit comfort/routine until 2ish.

I threw them all out a little after my daughter’s first birthday to remove temptation for me and her. It’s a hard adjustment at first but it will get better. Stick it out. My daughter is on regular open cups now. I would throw them away asap.