Weaning from bottle - help

pixelvixen

We're finally getting around to taking DD off the bottle.  She isn't the greatest eater, so the Ped recommended waiting until she started eating more table food to make sure she gets enough nutrients before weaning.  We're at that point.

So I have no idea what I'm doing.  I thought that moving her from the bottle to a sippy would not be a problem, especially if the sippy has formula in it.  I figured once we got off the bottles entirely, I'd switch to milk and voila - we'd be done.  It's not working.

She barely drinks any of her sippys now and screams when I do give her a sippy with formula in it.  She wants her Ba-ba!!  She's familiar with sippy cups - we give her them with water or juice.  Bedtime and nap times are AWFUL.   

Any suggestions, ideas?  TIA!

mrsmikey

I've been told NOT to offer formula in sippies, and not to offer milk in bottles.  It's supposed to help cut down on confustion when weaning, and that it's easier to drop formula and bottles together.

That said, we are not following my own advice!  We decided to switch to milk first, then switch to sippies.  It just made more sense since we're gradually switching from formula to milk.  So I'm going to wait until he's 100% on milk, and then drop the bottle all at once and only offer sippies of milk.  I don't know if that makes sense to anyone else, but it just seemed to be what would be best for us.

howleyshell

Another "don't put formula in sippy or milk in bottle" recommendation here (from my pedi)

We just went cold turkey.

There were some tears as they both used the bottle to go down for naps but it was short lived.

As for the drinking milk out of a sippy thing...

Take away the bottles and the formula (remove those calories) and you should see a dramatic increase in milk consumption out of a sippy within a couple of days.

Until you remove the formula calories there's not as much motivation (calorically speaking) to eat table foods or drink milk.  Once it's gone they step it up quite a bit.

GL to you!