Need advice on toddlers

[OLIVIA_KARHIS]

I would do cold turkey, I know its going to be hard.... if you don't want to do that, maybe you can talk to your dr about it..and he/she can give you another way of braking him from it.... But I would brake him soon , bc the food setting in his mouth at night, is not good for his teeth. Good luck and let us know how it goes

[tjdmom]

I think it will be hard at 16 months but the longer it goes the harder it will be. It sounds like he just needs a little something for comfort. Maybe you could try to replace it with something else, maybe music? When my youngest was little, we had a winnie the poo that played music for about 10 minutes and it really helped him to get to sleep. Of course, he had a binky too and it was really hard for him to give that up and I kinda hated taking it away because I knew it was his security. Eventually, he just kinda outgrew it. It had a hole and he didn't like that and it was pretty easy but he was almost 3.

[TootiesMom]

I have to agree, cold turkey is the best way for him... you probably wont think it is for you but at his age he will never remember it....
what we did was offer my daughter something else that she loved, everytime she cried for the "noonie".... (Santa took it for the baby elves)... eventually she got to where she would ask for her favorite toy of the time....
it wont last long, really....
good luck! This is always a hard part....
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[Suzy]

I agree that cold turkey is the best way, even though it will be difficult. I nannied for a few families in college, and one thing that helped some of my charges was when their pacifiers (or the infant feeder in your son's case) "went" somewhere... One little boy named Jack lost his because the family dog got one of his pacifiers, and he was SO upset, but he understood that Bear (the dog) ate it. His parents threw out all the other pacifiers in the house, and Jack was just done with it.

Another thing I have heard of doing (don't remember where, maybe even on here?) is throwing a sort of "ceremony" to rid of the security item...the story I heard was that a little girl needed to give up her pacifier, so they hung them all on the tree in the front yard at night. Then, a "pacifier fairy" would come down and gather all the pacifiers, and give them to the new babies! Sometimes, in exchange for the pacifiers, the fairy would leave a present thanking the child for the pacifer...could be small or large

Either way, it's still cold turkey, but it might help him understand at least WHY the feeder's not coming back. Good luck!

[LoveMyJake]

Unfortunately, cold turkey is the best way to go when you take their bottle away. All three of my kids cried the first couple nights, but after that they were fine. Some cry longer than others. I hated taking the bottle away when mine were babies, but I knew it was for the best. I don't know anything about the cereal bottles. I always just fed mine with a spoon because I thought it was fun!