Up to our Ears in Bottles

I want to get Bea off of bottles. Badly.

I've tried once, but it seems like an impossible feat due to Olivia having bottles as well. One sight of the bottle and that is all I will hear about from her.

So, I've come up with a plan which I have thought about for over a week now. I'm not sure I like it, hence my hesitation for writing about it or trying it out. The plan and background is this:

We use Dr. Brown's bottles that come in nipple sizes of 1, 2 and 3. Number 1 is for the newborn, slow eaters who need to figure out that sucking furiously will get them something to eat and not overwhelm them with the amount of flow. Number 2 is the middle, where Olivia is at now. Number 3 is where Bea is – the aggressive eater nipple, where if you turn the bottle upside down, it will just kind of pour out.

What if I switched Bea back to a number 1 nipple? But then I offer her a sippy cup with milk, too? Give her the bottle first, which she will most likely refuse, then offer her the cup. If everything plays out like it should, she should realize that the cup offers her more milk upfront and she doesn't have to work for it. She would refuse the bottle and take the cup because those darn bottles should be worthless, right?

She takes everything else from the sippy, but not milk.

I don't think it will work like that at all because I've definitely got a stubborn one that I am working with. It's a weekend project, I'm sure, and one that will be filled with tears and frustration from all parties involved. Do I really want to spend the weekend doing this? No.

In any case, I'm open to other ideas, but one thing to remember is that we will still have bottles openly present because of Olivia, which makes things a little more difficult.