ok cold turkey seems to be the way

thanx to all of you

we used bribery. we got our kids to leave their bottles in the bin (preferably not at home so they cant get them out!) and father christmas would come and get them to make them a new bike(or whatever toy they want for xmas) from the crushed down bottles. it worked for 3 of our kids but the trick is is they have to make the desicion to do it themselves.

bottles definately delay toilet training and increase bed wetting.

With both of my children, I just picked a weekend and we went cold turkey. My son was VERY attached to his bottle and we thought it would be rough. We honestly went through one rough afternoon and then it was all ok. I would advise to keep them out of sight and just stay consistant....if you keep saying no, after a day or so, I would imagine she'd stop asking for them.

At 2 years old, your daughter can understand a lot. Why not explain that bottles are for babies and may be get her a grown up toy to symbolize that she is now a big girl.  Or, you can just get put away the bottles for good and get sippy cups. She will throw a tantrum for sure, but what can she do if the choice is to have milk using a sippy cup or no milk at all. You may want to do this on a weekend when you have time to deal with tantrums though. And don't give in! Once you take the bottles away, do not take them out again.

My son started using a sippy cup at 10 months old. He had a bottle at night, and sippy cup during the day. Then at 12 months old, I just decided to stop using the bottle all together and he was just fine (lucky me!).