What is a good age for little kids to let go of their pacifiers and bottles? My two used a pacifier for just 3-4 months, but the bottle business for my 2 year old isn’t over yet. I am working on it but not with much discipline. Her doctor said 18-24 months, but she is 26 months now. I think a couple of months more should do it, eh?
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Get her fancy glass/cups/mugs with fancy straws and then hide the bottle i guess...lol
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That's what I need to do Lusi. I guess I'll get a fancy Dora sippy cup! She's totally into that these days.
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My son's pediatrician wanted him off the bottle before his first birthday.
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Sajal, I guess they all have different views. Did you manage to do that?
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^Niksik, I havn't even tried. Wese bhi some of us tend to get a little easy with the second child. :-)
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Yeah. I was pretty easy with my first one as well. I hear mixed views. Some people see Choti with her bottle and comment that she is very late and all that while some people don't really care. I think there are advantages of weaning early but not major harm done they continue a bit longer.
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niksik, i have the same dilemma, she loves her bottle. how to get her off!
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hmmmm interesting i was virtually dying for my son to take the bottle but he never did
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my niece is 2 yrs old and my sis is planning to take her off her paci in a week or two but she's more concerned about abt her hubby coz he can't see his little girl crying and that's what is going to happen so my sis is preparing him first. :D
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1st b-day… personally I think it looks odd for a kid thats walking to hold a bottle or suck on a pacifier.
niksik…my sisters starting “weaning” their kids off the bottle/breast by supplementing some milk in a sippy cup (or for older kids a cup with a straw/sports bottle) at about 10 months. gradually they put less milk in the bottle/or less breast time..and increased the amount given in the bottle. By age 1 they stopped using the bottle altogether. The earlier you wean them off the easier/quicker the transition because they wont be as attached to it..the older they are the more attached they get.
You may have to go cold turkey with your daughter since she is older. 
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How do you get them to stop taking bottle? What is the procedure. My son will eat regular food and drink from a cup when he wants, but he MUST have a bottle of milk before he sleeps. My pediatrician advised against giving him milk before bed, but I dunno how to change that. He could eat n be full, but he still wants the bottle.
How do you get them to stop taking bottle? What is the procedure. My son will eat regular food and drink from a cup when he wants, but he MUST have a bottle of milk before he sleeps. My pediatrician advised against giving him milk before bed, but I dunno how to change that. He could eat n be full, but he still wants the bottle.
how old is he?
gradually decrease the amount you give him at night. Also dont put him to bed immediately after the bottle...he might start associating the bottle with sleep if he hasnt altready.
p.s I'm not a mom so you mothers dont have to pay any attention to me since im not so credible :D
just basing my suggestions on what ive seen my sisters do.
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I was off the bottle around 9 months... and no, they don't make this model no more.
Thank you
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Why a parent can't wean their kids off something is usually more about the parent's own ease rather than the kids not willing to learn.... and this is pretty normal.. we all do it sometimes.
All three of my kiddos went off bottle by their first birthday.... no biggie and NO it's not really hard to wean them off at any age. Age doesn't really matter but you being PERSISTENT and RIGID about it, is the key:
Get your girl a sippy cup... I always preferred a straw cup over the spout ones.... or you can directly advance to an open cup since she is a little older now... up to you.
Start working on the weaning part on a Friday night... you and your husband can take turns and can compensate a couple of hours of missed sleep the following two days.
Prepare her: Giver her that last drink in her bottle and TELL her that her bottle will go bye bye after this drink.. show her the sippy cup and tell her that since she is a 'big' girl now she will only be using the cup from now on.
Take her to the trash can and throw/let her throw all the bottles in the trash right in front of her eyes (cruel??? not really, she will get the idea that bottles are leaving with the trash tonight:))
End of story.
she knows that bottles are not going to come back and YOU know that those are not going to come back... she sure will cry for her bottle when she will have an urge for it (pretty normal) BUT you will not run to the kitchen to bring her bottle back if she starts to have a tantrum about it... because you know that it doesn't exist anymore!:)
again, be prepared to sacrifice a couple of hours of sleep and let her cry it out on her own.. it will take her three days, to a week maximum, to get over with 'mourning over the departure of her bottles' part, but it all will worth in the end.
this method worked for all three of my kids, it worked for my hubby's niece (then 3 yrs old), and i highly recommend this method to any parent who is having a difficult time weaning their kid off the bottle.
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^the above method can be applied to the kids as young as 10-months old, except that the younger kids will have no idea why his/her mommy is babbling in front of a trash can... but i think what matters most in this method is that the PARENT should know that the bottles are gone for ever, more than the kids themselves.
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apart from me (coz i'm the eldest), all five of my siblings were off the bottle by the age of 1. i can't remember the exact months my mum started changing the bottle for sippy cups during the day though, they took to it pretty naturally to be honest. it was no big deal.
as for me, i remember my mum had enough of me wandering around with the bottle all day (i was about 2 and a half), so she took it away and said she had thrown it out. i remember looking everywhere for it!
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CG.....reminds me of something my cousin did with her daughter....
they took a vacation and my cousin promised herself that when they fly back home that will be the end of the bottle for her 2 yr old..cold turkey! Once they got home she told her daughter that she left the bottle on the plane and now it went 'bye bye'.
Her daughter of course had a concerned look on her face but understood everything her mother told her. At that point she started to give her a cup with a straw and lid and told her she now has to drink out this cup since the bottle is on the plane. Her daughter drank out of the cup....she wasnt drinking as much as she was in the bottle but eventually with a little bit of consistency and patience her daughter now (2.5 yrs) drinks plenty of milk. She often asks and STILL remembers about her bottle...she asks often for confirmation..."bottle jahaz pe..bye bye??"...with a sad look.
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I know CG, and others, it's more a mommy comfort thing. It's hard for us to make them feel upset. But I guess the ideas you all have suggested are excellent.
Will start soon.
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is it true if babies use pacifiers…it effects their hearing??? 