How do I get my baby to stop bed time feeding?

this is a pro-bottle post!

I am a keen advocate for bottles lol! I breat fed my first for 9 months and my second for 2 months, and both of them had bottles until they were quite a bit older, but with babies bottles are often a comfort and I believe, personally, that withdrawing that comfort from one so young may be traumatic.

the whole teeth issue is tosh too, obviously if you put juice of coke in the bottle it’s gunna rot their teeth, but not water of diluited milk. and my boys teeth are all completely straight, my friends little one had his bottle taken of him quite young and he started sucking his thumb, he now has really pushed out front teeth from thumb sucking and will need a brace. so bottle is better than thumb!

also, if you’re still breastfeeding, then put breast milk in it? if you’re really keen to get her off, then wean her off, dilute her milk with boiled water a little bit every other day. she won’t notice the change that much, and if she does then it’s never to early to teach them that whats there, is there and thats it.

and reply to dawnathen, my littleist one remembers being inhospital when he was a baby and being left to cry in the cubicle, and no hates doctors hospitals - anything medically related (which is a pain since I am a nurse and am eitherina hospital or a GP surgery lol!)

but it has been proven that a huge majority of peoples memorys from baby life are actually real and not imprinted from stories or pictures. a different side of the brain is used for implemented memory and real memory, so when my boys remember their childhood, I want them to remember something un-traumatic. and they are both happy, stable - straight teethed little boys…well ones going into puberty, but that a whole other story lol!