Long post!
So my daughter, still a bottle girl who also still has a night feed. We have been working on the sleep situation so I’m a bit late but I feel like I need to work on this bottle situation.
At the moment she still has a bottle before her bath
A bottle in the night
And very occasionally has a early morning one too.
Two things mainly, I need to cut out the bottle and replace it for a sippy cup
And secondly cut out the night feed as I believe from the NHS website which I did get mixed info from, is that they don’t need milk at all at this age or they do and need like 350ml a day? Wether that be in milk or food, however it’s tricky because my daughter is mildly lactose intolerant so we stay away from large amounts of cheese, milk, dairy etc and she has small portions and has oat milk as her main milk drink.
However I think starting with removing the bottle is my first task
I was thinking of potentially maybe putting her milk in her cup for the bed time bottle before bath
And then do that for the night as well next and cut out the morning bottle 🤷🏼♀️
I’m having multiple ideas so I was wondering if anyone had any ideas and advice
Thanks! 😊
We’re dairy free due to my sons allergies. He’s just been moved off prescribed formula onto oat/soy milk. He also wakes about half the week for milk overnight. We started with the bedtime bottle into a draw cup similar to his nursery water bottle. He initially took a bit less but the best day was fine and no problems since. With the overnight bottle it was a few weeks later we swapped it. Just used that bedtime straw cup and replaced it. He hated it the first 2 night but just went back to sleep after getting upset it wasn’t a bottle. We threw our bottles away so we could go back to them in the dead of night for easiness Now he’ll take it if he wakes, a small amount of oat milk but I do too it up with water. His sleep has seen a improvement, unsure if he was using the bottle for comfort but he sleeps through half the week now unsure if it’s a coincidence but definitely worked for us. Expect a tantrum or two if he’s attached to the bottle but stay strong you will be okay.