Almost 2yr old son drinks bottles, how to get him to stop?

Transition him into sippy cups with soft spouts (we liked the Nuby). At night, give him a sippy cup with water. You can slowly reduce the amount of water until he no longer takes a cup to bed *(which will be helpful when it comes time to potty train). This will be difficult, but it is so much better for him in the long run.

My health visitor told me to reduce the amount in the bottle by an ounce every night. (I was breast feeding but she told me to make this one feed a bottle.) It’s worth waking up for 8oz, but when the milk slowly goes down to 5oz or less the baby becomes less dependent on the milk and begins to learn to sleep through. It takes a while to learn the lesson (as said above) but this idea makes it easier than just stopping.

Stop giving it to him when he wakes up. Go in to his room and tell him that he will not be getting a bottle and to go back to sleep, you’ll see him in the morning. He will cry, but do not give in or you will be giving him a bottle when he’s 3 in the middle of the night. It will be hard, but remember it is for the best.

Hide all the bottles and offer a sippy cup with his favorite character on it when he cries for a bottle. He will cry but don’t give up, he will eventually give in.

um try putting milk or formula (whatever you use) and introduce it in a sippy cup, to see how he likes it, then just slowly stop giving him the bottle… I work at a day care and thats what were doing with these two babies and it seems to work…

Don’t give them to him anymore. Itis okay to let them cry…when he stops getting the reward than he will stop crying in the middle of the night.