Day number 2, no bottle.. Here's the obstacle

[LovingMyJaybird]

So my son is two, and still takes a WATER bottle at bed time and nap time, to sleep with. I know this is bad, and I have no excuse for not breaking him except, I as his mother did not thinkhe was ready, since he did not have anything else he liked to sleep with. Now he does, so I'm weening him off the bottle. Last night at bedtime, I gave him his bottle, while I read to him in the living room. Then I put him to bed without it.. He cried on and off for an hour and then went to sleep.

This afternoon, I gave him a CUP of water while I read him a story, put him in his bed without it and he went to sleep after 10 minutes of fussing.

I'm working tonight and my mother is baby sitting. I have explained to her importance of giving him a cup with a story before bed, then to bed with nothing. and to let him cry it out... I'm just scared she will give in to him.. She always gives into him. I'm off tomorrow, so I'll do both bed time and nap time, then on Tuesday I won't even be home for nap time or bed time because of work, but on  Wednesday and Thursday I'm off of work.. So I'm thinking if she helps me and sticks to it, then by Friday, I can throw away his bottle.. (he only has one left, we've been tossing them for a while now)

[ff-princess]

I dunno, I tossed all of mine that way there was NO way anyone else was going to give her a bottle.  we did it cold turkey, and she never even peeped about it.  good luck!

[MommyOfFive2010]

Good Job! I don't see anything wrong with sending them to bed with a sippy cup of water though. Keep it up and stress how important it is to you that he be off the bottle entirely to your mother. hopefully she'll stick with it too. Just let her know about his progress so far.

[countrygirlkat]

Good luck!  I bet you are right that if she sticks to it he will be off of it in no time.  I would throw the last bottle away now though, just me.  That way she really can't give into it and since you know he is capable of sleeping without it then I would get rid of it.  Just my thought though.

[AlyssaRob1416]

I would throw it away now. There is no reason to keep it. BTW, where did you make your siggy?

[KayB48]

I told my daughter, at two years also, a story about the paci-bottle fairy.  she is the fairy who will bring a chosen toy to the child  in exchange for all the bottles or pacifiers in the house.    Together we put all those items in her little chair before she went to bed, the next morning she woke up, those items had diappeared being replaced by the toy she had requested from the fairy.   Worked here.

[asistartomosh]

i like the siggy too.

Quoting AlyssaRob1416:

I would throw it away now. There is no reason to keep it. BTW, where did you make your siggy?

[jillbailey26]

Just throw the bottle in the garbage now, take that bag of garbage out to the outside trash can/dumpster (whatever you have) and make it completely inaccessible.  If it's not in the house, they can't be given to him. 

Either that or take the bottle with you to work.  That way she can't give it to him.

[kk_bella]

When I was breaking bottles, I had to have my mom watch my son. I had a midterm and had no choice, no other option for child care. I didn't see him with a bottle at her house but I know she gave it to him. It added an extra day but within 4-5 days, he was completely off the bottle.

Just one suggestion, throw away all of your bottles in the house.