Bottle, or no bottle?

My daughter will be 1 in 1 week exactly. She drinks from a sippy cup full time..except for at night. right before she goes to bed, she has always always had a bottle. (I do not put her to bed with it though). Should I let this continue? I know babies "should be" broken from the bottle by the time they are 1...but this nighttime bottle thing is going to be a hard habit to break. Should I continue with it? If so, until what age? And how could I go about stopping this part of her bedtime routine?

Keep in mind, she now gets a bedtime snack as well...its not much...usually a bowl of yogurt or some crackers...

I let my daughter have her nighttime bottle until 14 months (she's 15 now). She slept better with a full tummy. She just kind of weaned herself off of it and became more interested in "real" food.

Quoting angelwingz22:“ My daughter will be 1 in 1 week exactly. She drinks from a sippy cup full time..except for at night. ... [snip!] ... routine? Keep in mind, she now gets a bedtime snack as well...its not much...usually a bowl of yogurt or some crackers...”

I'm really proud of you for not laying her down with a bottle! Good for you... and HER!

they have those rubbery sippy cups.. it might be easier for the transition...

Quoting Kathleen S:“ I'm really proud of you for not laying her down with a bottle! Good for you... and HER!”

Thanks! I refuse to...I never have and I never will. There are nights when I want to...because a bottle seems to calm her and help her sleep better...but I won't.

Quoting egyptiangodss:“ they have those rubbery sippy cups.. it might be easier for the transition...”

Thats what she uses for during the day. She doesn't know how to use the hard spout sippies yet...she has a soft sippy and a straw sippy. And that is fine with me. a sippy is a sippy, right? I just wondered when I should cut out the bottle, and just give her more of a bedtime snack instead?

Quoting angelwingz22:“ Thats what she uses for during the day. She doesn't know how to use the hard spout sippies yet...she ... [snip!] ... a sippy is a sippy, right? I just wondered when I should cut out the bottle, and just give her more of a bedtime snack instead?”

you might try to transition to the sippy instead of the bottle.. then just cut it out.. it might be easier for her.. it might take a little longer but it should be easier..

At 11 months I took away Hailey's last bottle (bedtime) and tried a sippy cup..that worked for a couple of days.. then she started refusing it.

So I offered NO bottle, NO sippy cup.. Just the paci and rocked her to sleep like always..

On May 28th I opened my last can of formula and used one scoop out of it . She was bottle/formula broke by 11 1/2 months.