How did you break the bottle habbit with your child?

I don't have child yet. But I can still remember how my mom weaned my younger brother. He actualy stopped bottle feeding when he was 4 years old. I was tatolly ruining his milk tooth since almost all his teeth were yellow. What my mom did was he placed the bottle in top of the toilet bowl. When my brother saw it, he stopped to pick the bottle. That's how he stopped bottle-feeding.

Cold turkey is the way. You have to just throw it out and not have any bottles in the house. You will have one rough night and then it should be just fine. That is the way the Nannies do it. It worked for me. I used the getting to be a big girl now line. Kids like being big, so if they understand it that way they are willing to do it. I made it my daughters idea and had her throw the bottle in the garbage.

I don't really have any advice for you because my son weaned himself off the bottle when he was 10 months old. He would refuse to take the formula from a bottle so the doctor had me put it in a sippy cup and he would drink it from that. Then before he was 12 months old he refused to drink the formula so the doctor had me start him on whole milk and give him vitamins. So I didn't have a hard time with the bottle and he never took a pacifier but he still sucks his thumb and he's 3 so I guess I'm going to have a hard time getting him to stop sucking his thumb. That will be harder than the bottle. lol At least you can just take the bottle away easily...I can't take the thumb away. :-)

For both of my older girls it was very easy. They were both off the bottle at 11 months. I started at 8 months with a sippy all day or as often as I could get them to take it. For the night time bottle I would put water in the bottle so it would cause bottle tooth decay. It worked well for me. My girls were very easy to break from the bottle. Now I have a 4 month old daughter who I will start weaning off the bottle at around the same age. Dont do it cold turkey because that probably wont work. Just do it slowly and it might work. Good luck.

Please share how to braek the bottle habbit with the child. She is 11months old.When is the right time to do so? Please advice...