Mum teaching bad habits to bub!

[Lil X-men]

Help!
I am a naughty mum, that has introduced a bottle to my son's cot for want of a couple of hours extra sleep in the morning.
Now it has escalated to him having to have his bottle in bed every nap time to settle.
I know it can be bad for their oral health, having a bottle sitting in their mouth for an extended period of time. But in saying that he does drink the whole bottle before going to sleep.
Is this ok or should I be trying to get him out of the habit now? He's 8months old.
He won't let me feed him anymore so it's hard to give him a bottle myself before he goes to bed.
I have just now tried to put him down after trying to feed him some of his bottle and he wents nuts, for over ten mins. So I gave in and put his bottle in his cot and now he is sound asleep!
I cant believe I taught him this habit, after saying I'd never do it!!

[Chickadee]

Julie,
My DD had a naptime and bedtime bottle till around 20 months. If it gets them to sleep I don't see the problem with it. But, for the sake of his current and future teeth it would be better if had the bottle out of bed. He can feed it himself, but the idea (I think) is to not have him fall asleep on it and make sure that he swallows all of the last milk in his mouth. The few moments of transferring him from wherever he has his bottle into bed should help that happen. This is what we always did. DD had her bottle cuddled up with me, then change of nappy and into bed awake or dozey.

[joshiesmum]

Hi Julie
I have done a similar thing always tried to do the feed play sleep untill a month ago where i found just by chance that my catnapper slept for two hours if i fed him before sleep! Heaven! What i now do is use a little fold out sofa (kids type) Let him have his bottle on that himself then when hes done i move him into the cot. I do this in his darkened room and just sit quietly next to him wilst he finishes it. Dont know if this helps good luck!
oh and Joshua is almost nine months

[bubbybub_vanna]

to everyone merry xmas....

my 4 months old bubby kody has a really bad habit now.... my sister in-law was like... pillow feed him.. meaning let him feed by himself with the pillow underneath the bottle.... i know this is really bad but now he is sooo used of it....
now when i put him down he will start cryin like hell... he gets upset then i get upset :mad: even when i just put him to down for him to play he starts crying... its soooo crazy.... i have to hold him 24/7 and i dont know what to do... :(

when i first had him it was ok, i had a routine and everything, then we moved into our new home and for the past 6weeks ive been so stressd.... he's having all these habits and im not liking it... i feel like a really bad mummy and i dont know what to do.... i was thinking of controlled crying... like leaving them to cry... but theres some skeptics out there that so disagree and says it will hurt them emotionally in the later years.... plus its xmas now the beginnin of 2006 and where i am atm in adelaide, itsss soooo hot and my house is soooo hot..... so dats why i dnt want to do controlled crying.

im a 19years old mummy and in crisis of help of teaching my bubby how to sleep by himself and not cry whenever i put him down.... kody is a happy boy though when he wants to be.. he laughs all the time (dats when im holding him) he always wants to play..... the middle of the nite he'll wake up & wanna start playing... laughing then crying....

oooooohhhh.... someone please help me or give me some advice... is there some kinda routine out there for a 4-5months old baby boyy.....