Moving from bottles to only sippy

sambama

I had DS's 1 yr appointment today.  I was concerned he was getting too much milk (35 oz) and having too many bottles (5/day).  Our Ped. thinks we need to stop giving him any bottles and give him milk only in a sippy cup.  Have any of you been told to drop all bottles this early? 

DaisyAdair

The dentist said to stop the bottles by a year and to transition them to straw sippy cups by 18mo.

At a year, the bottles just disappeared.  We had them using sippy cups from about 7mo, but still had formula in the bottles.  At a year, when we got the all clear to stop formula and go to all milk, the bottles went away.

They knew how to use the sippy so they weren't going to thirst.  My middle one seems to miss the night time bottle, but we replaced it with a sippy of milk and she got over it.  

I went cold turkey - and more out of necessity since I didn't really want 2 on bottles at once.

Swannja1

I've heard you should start the transition around a year, and each month afterwards gets twice as hard. DS has been completely off of bottles since around 11 months, the transition is exceptionally easy. I have friends that are transitioning their 18 month old and they are going threw a siggy cup-throwing nightmare -they said it was the biggest mistake to wait to eliminate bottle for so long.

thomas&lynn

Yes, it's actually all I've heard, to aim for weaning to cup/sippy at 12-15 months.

dedear

we went to "sippy-only" phase the week after he turned 1 year old....he has had no problems.  It's been really easy.

pjoann78

At our 9 month apt, our pedi said to be off bottles by 1 yr.  We slowly started phasing out the daytime bottles and by 11 months, DD only got bottles at night and maybe first thing in the morning.  Since 1 year, she has been bottle free