baba breaking

[~RENEE~]

OK well big guy is almost three like next month.

And we are today doing baba breaking.

In other words we are trying to break him of the bottle. And I have a yeller.

 

[marezee]

oh my! you poor thing! I am so glad i am done with that!
i will pray for your sanilty and that your son will quickly move on from the baba!

 

[Picture.Of.Obedience]

Consistency! Dont give in! You can do it!

 

[Neenie1]

My daughter turned 3 in June. She had a dummy/pacifier that she just LOVED.

In the end I told her you are a big girl now and don't need a dummy. I also told her the baby ponies need the dummies (she calls them dumdum lol) It worked because she is a my little pony fan.

Anyway she has asked a few times and we have told her no, the baby ponies need them, or you are a big girl etc. etc. etc.

Is there a favourite character he likes? With ds and his dummy, we told him that it went on holiday with Thomas the Tank. Well dh told him that, I was going to let him have the dummy for a few months but dh said it was going to go and I said well, you can help him get rid of it, but IMO 3 is a great age to get rid of things like dummies/bottles all that kind of thing because it's not very good on their teeth.

As the others have said, you don't go back on it, you stick to it once you have taken it away.

 

[lucypevensie]

I have a friend whose son liked his pacifiers well into toddlerhood. So Mom came up with a plan to encourage her son to give the gift of his pacifiers to a newborn baby who would need them a lot more. They planned well in advance so the kid had plenty of time to prepare. He was pretty excited. So a friend of theirs had a baby and they bagged up all the pacies they had in the house and presented them to the new mom and baby. I think it was a little hard when he realized they were gone forever but he got over it quickly enough, and he had the knowledge that someone else was putting good use to them

 

[jessesgirl]

Ah, I'm so glad J is broken of it! We did it right at 14 months and it was such a relief. He was a screamer, too....so I totally understand! Good luck, momma!

 

[RedTulipMom]

i took Lukes bottle away at 3 1/2 yrs old and it wasnt nearly as hard as i thought it would be. What i did is i found a sippy cup that was similiar to a bottle called NUBY with a soft plastic spout and gave him that instead of the bottle every other time he drank and over like a week i slowly switched him completely over to the NUBY sippy cup. Within a couple weeks i switched him to a regular sippy cup ..now he'll drink from any cup. The hardest was the night time bottle he drank before bed..instead of taking it away i just started giving him the NUBY sippy cup before bed and honestly..he was fine with it...i was surprised. Good luck.

 

[TCat]

I slowly began to get rid of the "baukie" (bottle) my only offering it at nap and night time, then offering a cup of water at nap then finally at bedtime. We did not make a huge deal about it but did not give them at any time other than bed times and slowly those ended as well.
My DS stopped his bottle at 1 yr and pacifier at 2 but DD was a little over 3 before we made a decision to end the bottle. It is so darned convienent!!!LOL

Good luck, IMO keeping it all low key, matter of fact and no big deal makes a huge difference.

 

[marezee]

i took Lukes bottle away at 3 1/2 yrs old and it wasnt nearly as hard as i thought it would be. What i did is i found a sippy cup that was similiar to a bottle called NUBY with a soft plastic spout and gave him that instead of the bottle every other time he drank and over like a week i slowly switched him completely over to the NUBY sippy cup. Within a couple weeks i switched him to a regular sippy cup ..now he'll drink from any cup. The hardest was the night time bottle he drank before bed..instead of taking it away i just started giving him the NUBY sippy cup before bed and honestly..he was fine with it...i was surprised. Good luck.

I used the Nubby cups with my oldest son when i weaned him from the bottle...i agree! the spout is soft and most like a bottle nipple. it is a good transition. but be careful! my son chewed a hole in one! LOL!

 

[TexasSky]

OK well big guy is almost three like next month.

And we are today doing baba breaking.

In other words we are trying to break him of the bottle. And I have a yeller.

I put things mine really liked in sippy cups.
I put things like water in bottles.

I really praised them for being grownup when they drank from cups.
I let them pick out the cups.

I also introduced cups with the same cuddling and holding and quiet time that I used with bottles.

That was the real attraction of the bottle, the "cuddle".

 

[CrystalBrooke]

I started weaning Emily from her bottle at 11 months..it took about a week I think, but she adjusted well. I would give her a soft spout sippy cup first thing in the morning, then I gradually gave it to her more often throughout the day.