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This will be another unpopular post! First the part i think everyone agrees with...I think YOU are the best judge of when to stop the bottle. Every child is different, some give up the bottle earlier than others. IN MY OWN EXPERIENCE ONLY, my oldest son gave up his bottles at 2. He was born on Christmas and on his 2nd birthday we put all bottles under the tree for Santa to take. He never took another bottle again. He went right to a regular cup. He is going to be 18 this Christmas and back then I dont recall even knowing what a sippy cup was. My younger son is 13, and autistic. He relied on the bottle because physically he had a hard time with a cup and with change in general. He was almost 3 before he could successfully use a cup. At that time we used a tupperware cup with a lid, kinda like a prehistoric sippy cup!
Now to the unpopular part...
I do not think ANY child should be put to bed with a bottle... period. It should never be used to console or pacify a child. I see my nephew walk around all day with his sippy cup and then go to bed with it too. My SIL says he always took a bottle to bed with him, so she gives him the sippy cup now too in bed. To me, this is rediculous.
Habits are very hard to break and I think if a bottle or sippy cup are used for their intended purpose there will be no traumatizing your child when they need to give them up. I also want to say that consistancy is the key to ANY transition. My famous line is "If it was NO yesterday, its still NO today!"...
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