When did you get rid of bottles?

NerdyMama2

DD still drinks out of a bottle and I'm wondering when we should start to wean her off them. I'm still BFing and she gets BM from the bottle at daycare and sometimes at home. 

Any tips/experiences?

juliane2004

I don't know, in regards to BM. But we did formula, and they recommend 1 year.

We cut bottles at 12 months for #1, 14 months for #2, and 13 months for #3.

Katie829

We cut them cold turkey this week when she was almost 15m. She was only getting them after meals. I still BF. She is doing okay. I know she would prefer the bottle but that's not an option anymore.

MamaVantobe

We stopped right at 12 months.  He was easy and had to problem going to a straw cup.

aeh72

We got rid of daytime bottles shortly after 12 months and got rid of his before bedtime bottle just after he turned 15 months.  Is your LO already drinking water out of a sippy?  If so, I would just try substituting the milk bottle for a sippy. She may resist at first but if you keep trying with each serving, she'll accept it probably more quickly than you think.  Have daycare start doing it too. I think that definitely helped us because DS would see other kids getting their milk out of cups too.

zbeesma86

we stopped a week before DD turned one- handed her a sippy instead of a bottle and she was fine! she mastered the straw at 8 months, and loved to drink out of my water cup with a straw so when I got her a straw sippy she was head over heels!

alake

She weaned herself down at 10 and a half months.  She was getting formula in a straw cup four times a day.  She was getting one bottle at bed time.  At eleven months, she started taking her bedtime feed by cup.  She will continue to get formula until 18 months, or so.

rubber_chicken

My daughter is 15 months and we just switched from bottles to sippy cups today.  Cold turkey. 

It's not going well.  She's been asking for a baba all day, and throwing the cups of milk (breast milk and formula - she can't have any dairy or dairy substitutes).  She'll drink water out of a sippy or straw cup, but every cup we've tried with milk has gotten thrown.

So far we've gotten 2 ounces into her today.  TWO.  She normally drinks 30 oz in a day (too much I know, that's why the pediatrician is having us quit bottles)

On the plus side, she's already eaten 3x the amount of food she normally eats. 

sunnyday016

At about 15m.

CYBURRCHIC

At 12 mos I introduced whole milk in his sippy cups. He wasn't fond of it but took a few sips. We were down to 3 bottles being morning, afternoon and nighttime. After a couple weeks we switched the morning and afternoon with milk in sippy cups. He still has his nighttime bottle, but going to stop that in a few weeks. He is 14 months.

TechieGirl1

A couple weeks short of a year, we gradually increased the amount of sippy cups until he was off the bottles.

kalette

We weaned BM bottles at 16 months when DD wasn't too interested anymore. She never missed them.

StacyJYay

LO still gets his milk in bottles at 21 months.  He started drinking water out of a straw sippy at 12 months.

MamaKoria

We're still using them. DS won't use a sippy for anything.

FabulousMrs.P

She was about 10 or 11 months old when she pretty much weaned herself. We had been giving her a sippy cup with water to practice. She started to prefer that so we just switched over completely. She never once asked for her bottles back.

LEIGHLOVE09

13 mos we went to sippys. We like the munchkin mighty grip sippys for milk. We didn't have much luck with other ones. I've recommended these to friends who were struggling and their kids also liked these.

PhantomPower

We cut him off bottles a couple weeks after his first birthday. We did the "cold turkey" approach and it actually went much better than expected. He does really well with sippy cups and straw cups so we haven't had too many issues. 

blu-eyedwife

He started drinking water from a straw sippy cup around 6-7 months.
At 11 months, we started sending his BM into daycare in one of the same straw cups.  It took about 3 days until he started drinking exclusively from the straw cups.

ALHickok1

We cut the bottle cold turkey. Ethan had his last bottle the day before his 1st birthday. He had a very easy transition.

amarie923

Daughter is 18 months and will get 1-2 bottles (6-7 oz) of whole milk a day.  She was EBF and will drink completely fine out of a sippy or a straw cup at meal time or snacks, she just will take all day to finish one cup. She sips.  Ped said it was fine to give her a bottle or two since she isn't going to bed with one and isn't relying on one to fall asleep or anything. 

harmonicbabe26

Completely off bottles when she was 12m 2w.

vicky7139

We stopped the bottles at right around 1 year. She went to a soft spout sippy and at 16 months we started the transition to an "open-mouth" sippy.  

We got rif of the nightime bottle before we transitioned to the sippy. 

Divallyn

We weaned him from bottles to sippy at 14 months.

Neary2011

DD has been the using sippy cups for 8 months now, so we don't have to worry about getting her off the bottle because has already done that, thank you god!

junebugrbig

We cut out the last bottle at around 15 months.

melody921

We switched from bottle to cup at 10 months with both kids. I thought it was easier to transition to the cup when I wasn't also moving them to cow's milk, so it wasn't too many changes at once.

plus12012

We intro'd DD to a sippy cup at 7months, at 10 months she was drinking water out of her sippy and we were still using bottles for formula. She just turned 1 last week and she now drinks out of a sippy cup all day and we just do one bottle at night. We will probably keep her before bed bottle for awhile just because it's a soothing routine for her.

Grins04

DS was about 10-11 months.  DD refused the sippy until a year, but a month later she is now 100% on sippy cups.  I basically just kept at it, and didn't give in to the bottle.  She fussed a little, and it took her forever to drink a cup (lots of snacking), but by the end of the day she was used to it  My own personal goal (and advice from the pedi) was to have it gone by 14-15 months (I just thought that sounded like a good age...before she got more attached).

Now I just have to work on the pacifier lol