Are you still using a bottle or nursing as part of your bed time routine?

Question

My daughter doesn’t fall asleep to the bottle but it’s the part of her bedtime routine before books and singing. We are trying to eliminate it but so far it’s not going well. Any advice?

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I’m still nursing my son until he falls asleep 😬.  I never should have started that habit but it was so easy at the time and I kept planning on stopping but now here he is 14 months and I’m still doing it... ugh.  It’s going to be a rough for all of us when I stop.

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I don’t see it as a problem... I like to know my son is fully hydrated and a bottle does the trick. He’ll out grow it when he’s ready.

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I only nurse my son after meals. His bedtime routine is beginning pretty much at dinner. He will then nurse. Has a bath and put on his pyjamas. Then we read a story and have quiet playtime and cuddles with his stuffed animals.
I guess it is still part of the routine but at least it's early in the routine and he's not depending on it to get sleepy.
I was nursing him to sleep previously but it was getting more and more difficult to get him to sleep and he also wasn't staying asleep.
So we stopped feeding close to bedtime and moved him to his own room. He started sleeping through the night again and gets 12-14 hours at night and then a 2-3hr nap in the day. Which is a huge improvement thats happened in about 2 weeks.

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No I try to keep the last sippy 30 minutes before bed but he can have drinks of water I have to make sure he gets his teeth brushed before he falls asleep and after his last sip of milk ... but he’s used to it now and just passes out on his own (as long as he’s in bed with us )

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My daughter stopped taking bottles a few weeks before her 1st bday. Just didn’t want it anymore. Of course I was halfway through a $20 thing of formula at the time. Lol

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Our lo is getting all 4 molars right now, so there's no way she's going to wean or give up her bottles. We'll work on that once her teeth are in.

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I tried weaning before but he could cry for hours so I gave up. I tried a few weeks later and it just seems he was ready. It was really hard only sleeping two hours at a time so I had no choice but to quit cold turkey. He would cry for a while and then would finally pass out only after about 15 minutes, now we don’t cry at all during bed time

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I’m actually planning to nip this habit. Our first priority right now is getting our son off the bottle. It’s his comfort item right now and I just had a new baby 3 weeks ago so we decided to wait since that was a huge adjustment. But I recently bought two new sips cups in different colors. Starting tomorrow (since we’ll be home all day) I’m going to just stop giving him a bottle and use the cups. Blue for water and green for milk. For night time I’m planning to ween him. Right now he has 4 oz before bed. I’ll just start decreasing the oz he gets before bed until he doesn’t get any or switch to water (at his 12m apt his pediatrician said water was fine before bed as it’s not bad for their teeth). Goodluck!! I know it’s not going to be easy.

Are you still using a bottle or nursing as part of your bed time routine?

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