I am so desperate! I’m doing the no bottle in the middle of the night because he’s never slept well since newborn because of this bottle situation. He wakes up every 3 hours for it. He’s 13 months. It’s been almost 2 weeks! And he still doesn’t stop crying until we give it to him. He eats solids before bed i don’t know what to do!
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Just take it away and don’t give to him EVER. Shouldn’t have one at this age. Sippy with a drink before bed. That’s it. After a couple nights he won’t care. I took mine off at 10 months. Never gave it back.
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I dont see why its an issue? If he wants it, why cant you give it to him? I gave my daughter a bottle until about 1.5 years. She never had a sippy cup because she hated them and went straight from a bottle to a regular cup.
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Put it in a sippy and that’s that end of story period no bottle ever. He will get use to it. I am not a let a baby cry kind of person sooo I’d put it in a sippy if he wants more every 3 hrs whatever. My 3rd baby didn’t sleep through the night till she was almost 3! I thought I was gonna die if I didn’t get a full nights sleep but I didn’t maybe lost a little bit of my sanity but most of it came back. She’s 14 and sleeps like a normal teen.
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If it’s just to self-soothe leave a bottle with water in the crib. If he sleeps with a bottle of milk or juice it will decay his teeth.
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Unfortunately you’ve answered your own question - he won’t stop crying until we give it to him.
He’s learned he may have to cry longer & harder but he knows you’ll eventually cave.
If you have decided no bottles - your decision no one else’s - at night then that’s it. You can’t give it to him no mater how upset he gets. And he’s gunna cry & cry - maybe all night for a few nights - because you have taught him that if he cries long enough he gets it. You have to teach him there’s a new normal & nothing he does will bring back the night bottle.
If it’s just milk you want to get rid of overnight then give him a bottle of water but if you as the parent want no overnight milk bottles then that’s it. No more. You cannot go back on that otherwise you start the whole process all over again but from even further back because he will cry even longer to test you.
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Sippy cup with water only… you don’t want rotted teeth!
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You’re the parent so parent. You’re letting your children parent you by giving in when he cries. I mean if I could throw a fit and get my way every time l would keep doing it too. Just go cold turkey with him. If he cries he cries. He will eventually go to sleep and after a few nights he won’t even miss it.
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Let him have his bottle at night
Put some water or juice in it
My son kept his bottle until he was about 1.5 then we slowly started watering down the milk until it was just water and he didn’t want it anymore.
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He’s still a baby give him the damn bottle,put water in it
Make the bottle. Take out an oz and replace with water. Do that for a week. Then take out 2 oz and replace with water. Keep going till it’s nothing but water! Worked for me anyway! She still uses a bottle at night but it only has water
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Melissa Bourgeois sippy cup. But put water in the cup. Not a whole lot.
He’s hungry give him some food and you won’t have to give him a bottle or he’s going to keep waking up. He could be using it to self soothe try a pacifier if he wakes up after giving him heavier food. I gave heavy food like sweet potatoes and chicken before bed she never woke up
Put water in the bottle. He will stop asking for it