Hardships of weaning my kids from bottle..

Just keep up the hard work. They really don't need bottles anymore at that age. My daughter got her last bottle when she was done with formula. I never put her to sleep with a bottle as I knew from my mom when I was young that it caused me to have many ear infections from being put to bed with a bottle of milk. The milk would leak out of my mouth to my ear and cause the infection. Also it is very bad for teeth to put children to bed with milk or juice as it can sit on their teeth and cause problems. I hope that you got rid of the bottles that way it is done, the will adjust but it will be hard for a while. I always fed my daughter a bottle before bed and then put her in her crib. When she no longer needed the night time bottle I offered her one with water the next night I just skipped the bottle all together. I had started her on sippy cups before we were done with the bottle. The only time she would get her bottle is if it was formula. So when we were done with the formula she was used to her sippy cups already and never missed the bottle. Good luck and I hope they get used to no bottles quickly.

You don't have to take the bottle away all at once. You can just have them use a sippy cup during the day and then still let them have their bottle at night. Then once they get really used to drinking out of cups then just offer them a cup before bed, and eventually they will take it. You are doing good though just keep it up it is hard to change a child's behavior sometimes but soon they will love their cups and forget all about the bottle.

At ages 2 and 3 they definitely don't need a bottle anymore. The only advise I can give, because all children are different, is to not give up or give into their cries. I understand it can be difficult to listen to them cry and not give them what they want but it's really for the best. When my son was a baby I didn't have any issues getting him to switch from a bottle to a regular sippy cup and then eventually to a regular cup. I did however have issues getting him to sleep in his crib - when he was a baby he didn't want anything to do with his crib but he'd fall asleep in his little baby rocker or even sitting up in his highchair. After a few nights of letting him cry it out, he eventually got use to the idea of sleeping in his own bed. Good luck with bottle weaning and remember to stick to it once you've started and a little crying never hurt any one! :)

The key to weaning your children from the bottle is that you have to stand firm. We had a very difficult time weaning my daughter because she spent one night a week with her grandparents when she was small and even though the bottle was mostly gone at home, they would always cave in to her. Well, we finally went on a short vacation when she was about two and a half years old and it was during that vacation that we forgot to take the bottle with us and after those three days she never asked for it again.

It is most mothers' nightmare: WEANING. I wish I could relate to the difficulty of weaning but i can't. My son started not to use diaper at night when i told him that he's old enough to do that and he just obeyed me. After which, I told him that he should also stop drinking from the baby bottle and he also obeyed me. I don't know why i could talk to my son like that and make him understand. At the age of 1 he started walking and throws his diaper in the wastebasket by himself when the diaper is full. In the case of my brother's son, he started weaning at the age of 5! And still wears a diaper at night till he was 6!