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Hi there
What I have to say may or may not be useful....I'm certainly no expert. I'm a new adoptive mom myself.
My son came to us at 3 yrs old and was still drinking out of a bottle (only milk). Everything else he'd drink out of a cup. I assumed that since he was fully able to drink out of a cup, he had no need for the bottles.
However.....I soon came to realize that his bottle was one of his few "security" items, and that NO, he didn't NEED it, he just wanted it! To this day he refuses to drink milk out of a cup, without throwing a tantrum.
My advice would be to TRY reasoning with your child.....make a deal that she can only have say 1 or 2 bottles a day, and make it her choice when she has it. Eventually I'm sure she'll feel secure enough to give it up.
HTH
Tam
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