Michelle asked:
I was wondering how do i break my daughter from her sippy cup when she goes to bed? When she takes a nap or goes to bed at night she always gets a sippy cup with milk. She is getting older now (19 months) and wets her diaper more at night which sometimes leaves me to changing her bed sheets a few times a week. I was told to give her water in it and not give her milk like she wants and eventually she wont want it since water isnt good. Im trying to break her to start potty training her. Thank you!
I was wondering how do i break my daughter from her sippy cup when she goes to bed? When she takes a nap or goes to bed at night she always gets a sippy cup with milk. She is getting older now (19 months) and wets her diaper more at night which sometimes leaves me to changing her bed sheets a few times a week. I was told to give her water in it and not give her milk like she wants and eventually she wont want it since water isnt good. Im trying to break her to start potty training her. Thank you!
Yeah you should switch to water. Not only to help break her sippy cup habbit, but because drinking milk in bed at night will rot her teeth. I suggest buying her a cute special big girl cup and suprize her with it one day at breakfast. Maybe get a few with fun patterns on them. Make a big deal about her special cups at meal time and sooner or later she will prefer to use her special big girl cups all the time and forget about the sippy cup
It dose not sound like your little one is ready to give it up. I would not push her to do anything that would bother her sleeping pattern. She will let it go when she is ready it’s her safety. Be patient.
Well, if she was potty trained you could give her a cup of milk say on the couch before bed, then have her *** and brush her teeth. . .
Since she’s not, I don’t know. I do know that having milk or juice before bed and not brushing can damage teeth. Other than just taking it away and saying no to her, I’m out of ideas. I don’t think she should be getting the idea that water isn’t good though, water is important.
Good Luck
Really, you can just stop — just take the sippy cup away. She’ll be upset for awhile, but the earlier you break the habit, the better, she’ll just forget about it. My daughter had a juice sippy cup she tried to keep with her all the time, and after a while of having her try regular plastic cups (which she loved because they were big girl cups) some of the time, we just put the sippy cups away. Then if she woke up thirsty, she’d have to get up and grab a cup of water from the dresser.
By the way, kids shouldn’t have milk or juice (or anything but water) in bed with them while they sleep. It’ll rot their teeth out and damage their gums.
I agree with both the first two answers. It does sound like she is too young to start potty training and if she isn’t quite ready it will be frustrating for the both of you. I would also switch to water so it’s not so bad on her teeth. We still let our 3 year old take his sippy to bed (with water only) up until about a month ago. He has been potty trained for over 6 months and the only reason why we took it away was because we got tired of him getting up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom…he would only use the bathroom in our room at night and then he would try to sneek into our bed.
Just to forwarn you, it might be a rough couple of days or a week (depending on your daughter) if you decide to switch to water since she is so used to having milk. Hope things work out for you.
For one thing she may not even be ready to potty train. Kids who are ready to potty train should be able to hold it for at least 2 hours and show signs of interest in going on the potty. Stop giving her liquids before bedtime and see if she can stay dry; is she able to do it during the day as well? If not, she’s not ready, as she’ll just continue to wet herself even if she’ll go potty when you send her, since she doesn’t have control of those muscles yet.
As for the sippy cup routine, stop doing it right before bed. About 30 minutes before, give her the last drink for the night. It doesn’t have to be milk or water for that matter, or it can be. As long as she’s done with it 30-45 minutes before. That should give her enough time to go and you can change her right before tucking her in.
the best thing i found was….out of sight, out of mind…..we told our kids they could keep them until they lost them, and once they lost them, they would no longer get one…..with my 2 middle children, i waited until they werent looking and i hid the sippy in a really really good hiding spot, through the day i would give them big kid cups, and at night they would ask for their sippy and i would tell them i didnt know where it was, i would let them look for it for a few minutes and then i would say, ‘oopps looks like u lost it, i guess u dont get it anymore maybe if u find it tomorrow, u can have it back and eventually after like a week, they didnt want the sippy anymore, they wanted to be a big kid….with my oldest, i didnt actually have to take it cause she really lost hers, but with the other 2, they held onto them darn things always, i had to have dad distract them so i could hide them,lol…may not sound right but it worked perfectly…did the same with the binkys….