Bedtime Bottles

Personally I wouldn't worry about cutting down the amount unless it affects how much he has for dinner. Jack has about 120ml but that is only cause he doesn't ant anymore than that. Plus it is hot at the moment so he could be thirstier than normal.
I don't know much about bottles as neither of the boys had them, is it due to physical development issues (teeth etc) that means you should get rid of the bottle? If not then do what works for you. If you decide to get rid of the bottle then just try and shift to a sipper cup.

My just over 2 year old still has a bottle at night (250mls). I have weighed it all up as plunket suggested I get rid of it but he refuses to drink milk out of a sippy cup but will happily drink water out of it so if I stopped the bottle I would stop his milk intake which is probably not the best idea.

I changed Jakes day bottle to a sippy cup at 14months, and the night one at 18months (I'd read the same books! LOL). He was drinking about 300-330mls just prior to changing to a cup, then about 200mls from the cup. I would just give him a bigger bottle for now and then work on changing it to a cup. (Happy to tell you how I made the change if you're interested?)

I switched Callum's morning milk to a sippy cup at 11m but he still has 250-300ml from a bottle at bed time. He's 14.5m now. I think I've read those books too but IMO C is still a "baby" and he loves his night time milk, it's our time to snuggle up together at the end of the day.

I figure, C dropped all his other milk/bottle feeds on his own up till now. It was really obvious each time what was coming. So I'm going to follow his lead with this one too

My DS is the same... loves his milk. He has 200ml after breakfast, after lunch and before bed. Often he doesn't drink the lot.

I was concerned we should be weaning him from the bottle too after comments from other people. At the 15 month plunket check up, we had one of the plunket nurses I really rate - very down to earth - and it was good talking to her.

She said that at 15 months, they could be having 500-600ml milk a day. Since DS eats yoghurt and cheese, she thought dropping the lunch time bottle would be ok but up to me. (I've left it as DS loves it so much and it's just before his once-a-day nap.)

She also said that Plunket have changed their partyline on bottles and don't care if your child is taking his bottle to school - LOL! - but their concern is having the bottle in bed and their dental hygiene.

So like most things with DS, I'm going to let him decide when he doesn't want the milk anymore.

Oh, and I've tried the sippy cup with milk but I get a screwed up face and he throws it away. So bottle it is!

Ok so brushing teeth then is normally something we do after bath before bottle and bed - and getting him to do that is hard enough.

I feel more relaxed about the bottle thing.

So how on earth do you get them to brush their teeth. DS currently going through that anything you ask me to do, I just don't feel like doing it stage. (i gather this stage is a long one)

I'm so glad to hear that some 'babies' are still on 3 bottles. Ava loves milk and gets grumpy if she doesn't have milk. Lately I have thought about trying to drop the mid morning feed but would rather let her drop it.

At the point where I started dropping b/feeds for Bethany, I introduced warm cows milk in a sippy cup at bedtime. She loved curling up on me with that just as much as she had with her bottle of milk leading up to then. So if you like the snuggles but want to try a cup, don't feel like they'll suddenly be too grown up to keep snuggling you while they have their milk - it all depends on how you decide to do it ;) We now give her her milk after dinner though cuz we worked out that it was giving her a gripey, bloated tummy when we gave it to her just before going to bed. Each to their own I say, cuz in the end it's just about getting the milk into them whatever way works best! (Bethany now tries to insist that any milk during the day is warm too - she never drinks as much when it's cold lol!)