This is a plea to those with children who have been weaned from the bottle.
Sometimes (most of the time) Aedyn wakes up in the middle of the night and I just give her a bottle to get her to go back to sleep. Sometimes she falls asleep while eating, sometimes not. Even if she doesn't fall asleep, she is quiet when I put her down.
Last night, we stepped up our efforts to try to get rid of the last bottle that she still gets. That little girl screamed bloody murder for over an hour. After the first 15 minutes I went in and checked her diaper and made sure she was otherwise ok. While I was in there she was fine, as soon as I left the howling started again. I let it go longer then I ever have, and finally caved around 1am and gave her a bottle.
Does anyone have any tips or other advice that helped them in this situation? Tonight I'm going to replace the milk in her bottle with water, so at least we won't have to worry about tooth decay. She seems to handle a tippy cup ok during the day, but at night she doesn't want anything to do with it.
Edited, Jun 19th 2006 at 6:38pm EDT by Wint