Bottle weaning help

Please send suggestions. My 18 month old is having a really hard time letting go of the bottle. She’s having huge meltdowns when she wants one and just cried “bottle, bottle, bottle” repeatedly. She especially wants them for comfort if she wakes up in the middle of the night or during transitions like coming home from daycare or when she’s tired. I’ve tried offering milk in 100 different straw and sippy cups and nipple/bottle conversions and she throws all of them on the floor screaming. She’ll drink water out of anything but only wants milk in her bottle.I feel bad because she just wants ~2oz to comfort herself and then she’s fine. And had my milk production been better I would have still been nursing her until 2 years old. So not sure if I should get rid of bottles completely or let her have them a few times a day and try again closer to 2? I hate hearing her cry and she doesn’t understand why she can’t have the bottle. It breaks my heart to hear her say “bottle” with tears and that little lip.

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My little one is 19 months old and still drinks from a bottle. In my culture, we don’t necessarily wean them, they simply stop wanting them 🤷‍♀️. I was honestly stressing when he turned 1 because his pediatrician insisted on weaning him from it as well as not supporting co-sleeping (which is another cultural thing that I practice). Then cutting out how much milk he drinks and list goes on, now I don’t stress and I do things that feel good/okay/safe. Because as you mentioned, “they don’t understand”, I’m not here to be a dictator to my child, I’m here to guide and comfort him. (My point of view) 💕.

It was really important to me to wean from the bottle (& formula) as soon as I could.I didn’t want to deal w/breaking a bad habit later on in addition to the issues with teeth (I’ve seen what can happen), speech, etc. I basically went cold turkey at 12.5 months & just got rid of the bottles. Of course he’d hold out if he knew he could get one.However, I did use Dr. Brown weighted straw bottles for the morning & night ones since we were using Dr. brown bottles for formula so it was “similar”.They aren’t the best(hard to suck) but it seemed to be a better transition. Naps weren’t an issue bc I did the “wake, eat, play, sleep” routine since newborn so he wasn’t used to having a bottle before nap. Did he like it? No. Absolutely not. He didn’t want anything to do with it. He prob drank 4-6 ounces a day. After 2 months, he finally started to increase and now it’s no problem, he asks for milk and loves all his straw cups. But I didn’t give in, not even once.

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