when to stop using a bottle?

I kept up with Ella's bottles with teats until she decided she didn't want them anymore. I think she was about 18 months or so.
She was only having one bottle at night by that stage but it never occurred to me to change it to a sipper!
I don't think there's any 'right' way to do it, so if she's happy swapping between teats and sippers I wouldn't worry about changing.

Andrew stopped at about 18 months old. At that age he was only having a bottle at preschool and one at night. Preschool started by taking away the bottle first and then I did at night. He was fine with it.

I have never thought of when to get rid of the bottle.
Tyrell is only having a bottle at bed time now. (with a teat) Maybe I will try a sippy cup and see what happens.......

ummmm jack still has a bottle at night in bed and he's almost 3
i figure he'll let me know when he's ready to quit....or am i just deluding myself?

Lockie still has three bottles a day, he's not that interested in his afternoon bottle these days and only drinks half of it, so think I will look at cutting that one out very shortly.

You know I will not worry about the bottle at this stage at all. Babies and toddlers still have a need to suck. Just as long as they will take some stuff from a sippy cup I wouldnt worry at all. McKayla still has boob and never really took to a bottle or a dummy. But at a year she started wanting her hot chock at night in a bottle. She takes everything else from a sippy cup. (I got her onto a cup from the word go). If the bottle is not in the cupboard for her milk at night she goes for the sippy cup.

Cailin is over 2 and she still has her bottle with teat once or twice a day. There is something about teeth that they recommed not to use a teat when the can use a cup..but I can't think for the life of me why so I have kept up with Cailin using a bottle

busymum wrote: I know they don't like juice in a bottle on account of sugar on the teeth...

same goes with milk or anything really cause the sucking action activates saliva which is what does the damage.. that applies to going to sleep with it anyway, or even constantly sucking on it. i know the dental nurse didnt like that toby went to bed with a sippy cup of milk.

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james wrote: jack_&_charli wrote: ummmm jack still has a bottle at night in bed and he's almost 3 i figure he'll let me know when he's ready to quit....or am i just deluding myself? i,m in the same boat james isnt giving up the bottle for anyone right now

We just stopped giving Kayla a bottle at night about 2 months ago, she would ask and we just said "nah you dont need one, would you like a cuddle" she would run off not wanting a cuddle and forgot she had asked for a bottle, in the mornings she has started asking for a coffee lol So she has a milky milo in her cup, this just started cause dad had time off work and made her a "coffee" every morning.

I would stop giving them bottles and try and distract them so you dont get a melt down, just try it and see, we thought noooo Kayla still loves her night time bottles, but it turned out she wasnt that fussed at all, just too used to having one!

Ok I must be a bad mummy or maybe just lazy, my older girls both had bottles until they turned 4!!!! When I finally told them that big girls don't need bottles and we put then in the bin together and they were fine with that.( I had warned them before their b'day that this would happen) Neither of them even asked again. By then they were only having one bottle in the evening anyway and it really didn't bother me much.
Oh and both girls teeth were fine. They had the bottle then brushed and went to bed. They have only ever had water in any type of drink bottle/sipper cup from then on and juice only out of a glass (when they got older).
The dental nurse said it is sipper bottles with juice that are the problem with the front tooth decay as they suck the juice through the front teeth and the constant intake of sugar during the day not just in one hit.