My daughter will be 3 in Oct. and i really want to get her off the Binky and Bottle (which she only has when she goes to sleep and she won’t drink milk out of a sippy cup at all) she is my hardest child, any tips!!
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When we were ready we packed the bottles & binkies for the new baby. Do you have anyone close having a baby soon? It helped us because she was passing them down to a baby who needed them.
I took my sons binky away and just never gave it back, he had it in his mouth 24/7 too, same with the bottle just thought it was time to be done so never gave it to him again
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I’d take the bottle away before the binky. I’d literally just not give her the bottle. Give her a cup and tell her she can have that or nothing. Once she’s used to thar, take the binky. I wouldn’t do them at the same time.
I never used a pacifier and my son wasn’t attached to a bottle. He helped bag them up and we went to the dumpster and he threw the bag in himself, and never asked for one again
Tell her if she wants milk she has to have a cup. We do only water at bed anyways. My daughter would drink milk so she broke herself of the bottle when we changed from formula to milk. As for the pacifier my daughter kept biting holes in hers and I told her I wasn’t buying anymore. I made her throw each away. She did whine for a couple weeks but got over it.
My 2 year old was like this. We just recently got rid of the bottle. I only did one at a time. I figured the paci wasn’t as big of a deal just yet. I bought a bye bye bottle book about a zebra throwing the bottle away on Amazon. We read it a few times and I just kept telling my daughter the zebra threw her bubas away that way the blame was on the zebra and not me. She was a little crabby the first few times of asking but after the first day she didn’t care. I also bought her some new sippys (Avent ones) and she likes those just for morning mainly. There’s other bye bye books on Amazon that i plan on buying next for the paci😊
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My two year old was still on the bottle. One day I just took it away and kept offering a sippy with yoohoo and ever since then he takes the sippy at bedtime too!
I got rid of the bottle as soon as I could just because of cavities… bottle fairy came and took all of them and left a Thomas the Train set. He still brings it up years later lol.
Only water in the bottle and all other liquid in a cup. If she wants the chocolate milk she uses the cup. Throw the pacifier out. The majority of the time the parents are more attached to the pacifier than the kid is
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I took my son’s pacifier when he had a cold. He couldn’t use it anyway, and by the time he got better he forgot about it
My oldest I tried everything with eventually I had to force him to physically toss his bottles in the garbage to get him to accept they were gone. He cried for about 30 min over his bottle being gone then accepted it and never had another issue. My other child we just took it away one feeding at a time. When he accepted the sippy cup for that feeding without any fuss we would then take his bottle away for the next feeding and so on and so on untill bedtime was the last. After they were nolonger on The bottle the binky was easy to take cold turkey. They do now have a binky stop kit at walmart where the binky or the sucky part just gets smaller and smaller until they stop using it all together.
My oldest and youngest I took bottle and paci away on first birthday, middle sucked her thumb up until she was 10
I just took it away one day and didn’t give it back dealt with a day of fussiness and it was done.
Tips for the night bottle. My daughter just turned three in April and two months before her birthday she was still on the bottle we tried so many cups and she refused. We realized she wouldn’t drink from sippy unless it was a rubber spout because she wanted to chew on it. She did one of those sippy for a couple weeks. And then we switched to an all hard plastic one and she’s been fine ever since.
Once my girls turned 1 everything was thrown out. Bottles. My girls didn’t do binkies. Go cold turkey. Make sure you go thru the toys. One will just pop up. Lol
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My daughter was the same way. We luckily didn’t have to tackle a binky as she never liked them but her comfort item of choice for the longest of time was her bottle/sippy cup with a rubber nipple (nuk brand sippy cup for 12+ months and mimics a bottle). After trying multiple different sippy cups and failing I sat her down one day and said okay here’s the deal- you’re a big girl and we have to say bye bye to your bottles. We sat on Amazon and scrolled through sippy cups of all kinds and I let her pick the ones she liked/wanted to use (ended up being the cheap take and toss princess ones- which was nice for my wallet as well lol) and I told her okay once they get to the house the bottles were gone. The first few days were a challenge but eventually she realized she didn’t need them and she was fine just using her new fancy princess cup instead. As much as it sucks sometimes cutting them out cold Turkey is the only way to do it. As for a binky I’d see if maybe you could trade it for another comfort item of some sort as that’s all they are is comfort items. Or I’ve heard great things about the frida baby pacifier weaning set as well- good luck!
My youngest is 3 in November, she still has a dummy and bottle, she won’t drink from anything other than a bottle or fruit shoot bottle, she will drink from a cup but spills it ALL the time:joy:
and the dummy she’s very attached to, my eldest was also about 3 before she let go of them both, she was out of nappies before she got rid of dummy and bottle
I’m going to be blunt just take both away cold turkey. It won’t traumatize the child neither if people claim that. The binky one I guarantee your little one has binkies hidden around the house so I suggest do a walk thru and just cut the binky nipple top off of them and bottle just take away and say you’re a big girl now no more bottle. Yes she’ll give you quite the fuss and crying etc but she probably knows from the past that you’ve given in before for the fussing and crying/tantrums.
They shouldn’t have pacifiers after they develop front teeth, it’ll cause dental issues. Just take it away. Bottles will do the same thing. Give them a cup, they’ll get thirsty enough and drink it.