At my LOs 18 mon appt. her ped. told me to start transitioning off the bottle. I was worried at first too but she did it no problem.
My son will be 2 in july and he gets a bottles when hes sleeping we plan on having him off by the time he is 2
19 months also he just stopped. he eats enough throughout the day so at night he wouldn’t take the bottle & i didn’t force it. This was a few months ago.
I stopped it cold Turkey at 18 months. He’s now 20 months and goes to sleep just fine
I read they should be off the bottle by 18 months and I think our pediatrician said to start transitioning off starting at a year soooooo, we stopped the bottles cold turkey a couple of days after her 18 month birthday. She did fine. Never did take to sippy cups but uses straw cups just fine and is about 50/50 total success versus total failure with an open cup.
Mine LO uses a bottle only for when she first gets up in the morning, going down for nap time, and bedtime. Any other time she uses a sippy cup