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Bottles of milk at bedtime?

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When would you draw the line?

When is it time to stop the bedtime bottle?
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  • Nicki
    Nicki Posts: 8,166 Forumite
    The bottle or the milk?

    My two stopped using a bottle at around 12 months, but had a drink of milk in a cup with a lid. In fact my DS who is 8 still has a drink of milk at bedtime (his choice) though obviously not in either a bottle or a sippycup any more!
  • I still like a bottle some nights before bed and I'm 31, (wine though :rotfl: ). I stopped giving DD a bottle when she was about 18 months and then she just got a cup of warm milk. I stopped that when she was about 2 and 1/2 when I was trying to get her to sleep without a nappy as I didn't want many accidents.
    :j little fire cracker born 5th November 2012 :j
  • My dd 4 still has a night time bottle of milk. Not every night just when she feels like it, I think its just her bit of comfort sometimes and tbh I think she will grow out of it herself.
  • Krystaltips
    Krystaltips Posts: 9,220 Forumite
    The thing to watch with bottles is they can lead to tooth decay. Much better to swap to a cup...
    A very proud Mummy to 3 beautiful girls... I do pity my husband though, he's the one to suffer the hormones...
    Krystal is so smart and funny and wonderful I am struck dumb in awe in her presence.

  • My little bear is 22 months and still has a morning bottle and an evening bottle. He seems to wake up really needing something, and in the evening he seems to really enjoy it.

    I don't leave him with the bottle, which may be part of the problem, I hold him and the bottle and feed him. So he is getting a cuddle as well as food. Because I don't leave him just sucking a bottle I hope that this minimises the chance of tooth decay. I don't want to stop it too early, as I don't want him to have that, whatever did they used to call it, where people felt it necessary to smoke and put things in their mouths.

    I will be trying to get him off the bottles in the New Year, but I am happy to let it go at his pace. I don't see any point in rushing things.
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  • jackomdj
    jackomdj Posts: 3,073 Forumite
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    I replaced DD's bottle with a sippy cup at 12 months but she still often has milk in the morning or evening. I agree with the tooth decay thing - that is why we stopped the bottle.

    Nicky
  • Becles
    Becles Posts: 13,184 Forumite
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    My daughter is 17 months. She's had a sippy cup rather than a bottle from a year old.

    She has her bath on a night and has a cup of milk before she goes to bed. Mornings are a bit manic, so I get her up and give her a cup of milk and she toddles off and watches CBeebies, while I make the boys packed lunches and her breakfast.
    Here I go again on my own....
  • when they stop asking for it. but I would say definitely by about the age of 24 months
    Time is the best teacher
    Shame it kills all the students
    :p
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  • lauren_1
    lauren_1 Posts: 2,067 Forumite
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    ok thanks, my ds is 27 months and has a bottle of milk 1-2 times a week, not so much in the summer but as its getting colder he wants it more.

    r.e the tooth decay, that does worry me slightly but he wolfs it down in a matter of seconds but then almost everything can contribute to decay f you think about it.
  • lauren_1 wrote: »
    r.e the tooth decay, that does worry me slightly but he wolfs it down in a matter of seconds but then almost everything can contribute to decay f you think about it.

    I think tooth decay is more of an issue when it is juice in a bottle, rather than milk
    Time is the best teacher
    Shame it kills all the students
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