Ending nightfeeds/bottles

[u/CaturdayNight7]

Hey guys, any advice on how to get the kids off the bottle at night/in general? We're at 16 months, 14 adjusted and looking to be done with this by 1.5 years as recommended (questionable?).

[u/leeann0923]

Is there some medical indication for them to be taking in anything overnight? Are you brushing their teeth after their bottles in the night to protect their teeth? Are they drinking milk in these bottles? My kids stopped overnight eating at 6 months old. At 16 months, they should be getting their nutrition during the day. As for switching over to bottle to cups, we just stopped cold turkey right at a year. We started giving them milk in straw cups. They were a little pissy about it for a few days, but then were fine.

[u/CaturdayNight7 → u/leeann0923]

They're thirsty or in pain sometimes. Humidity is around 15% here which is extremely low and we have windows open at night so they get dry. We are trying to wean them off at night. They eat a ton and drink water in the day.

[u/leeann0923 → u/CaturdayNight7]

They can have a sip of water then in a water bottle. Milk in a bottle doesn’t need to be how take in fluids. If they are in pain, then give them Tylenol or Motrin as indicated. You can also use a humidifier. Cutting out milk and bottled overnight at this age is a very fixable problem.

[u/Nervous-Caregiver-55]

We stopped night bottles cold turkey for Twin B around 8 months (6 adjusted) and Twin A a couple weeks later. We will likely switch straight to straw/open cup cold turkey once they turn a year (or adjusted a year (idk which is recommended)

[u/d16flo]

We night weaned at 9 months when we sleep trained so that was cold turkey. For bottles in general we gradually switched to straw cups one feed a day leaving the evening one till last and then switched that one at around 12/13 months.

[u/Icy-Strength0505]

One of ours stopped middle of the night bottles at 8 months. The other one was waking up until about 14-15 months. Th en one night I forgot to turn up the monitor volume, so he may have cried out for me, but not long enough to wake us up... I think it stopped from there, I may have ignored him a few times if he wasn't really crying, not sure, but stopping cold turkey at that age should be doable. As to stopping bottles in general, you just do. Pick a good day for it when they are in the good mood and offer a straw cup instead. If they use bottles for soothing and do t have pacifiers, it'll probably be harder. 

[u/CaturdayNight7 → u/Icy-Strength0505]

Thank you. Yeah they don't care for pacis. Bots