How old was LO when you weaned him/her from bottle?

Jacques715

We are having a really difficult time. Any suggestions appreciated- thanks!

pam1005

12 months.  We only allowed a night time bottle at that time and then we just stopped cold turkey and offered the milk in the sippy about an hour before bed.  We have yet to do the paci yet, and I really worried about that.

Jacques715

DD never used a paci- always hated them. I wish we would have done away with the bottle at 12 months. She seems to have become really attached to it within the past two months. She is moving over to the toddler side on daycare and transitioning from 2 naps to 1. The transition has been tough on her and I don't know if taking the bottle away at this time is the best idea but I just keep hearing from everyone the longer I wait, the worse it is going to be.

pintpo

12 months.  I thought it was going to be rough because she seemed so attached to it.  For us it just took finding the right sippy cup that she could actually use (and one that did not leak like crazy).

Mrslove78

18 months...  i wouldn't worry about weaning.  I just slowed it down, at the end we only had a night time bottle, then on his good days we'd just skip that bottle untill he didn't have a bottle anymore.  It doesn't hurt to have LO on a bottle for a few years IMO.

robynlesley

15 months. Cold turkey.

DS still isn't good at taking milk from his sippy but I keep offering it and today he drank around 2-3 oz.  I upped his yogurt and other sources of dairy because he used to love his milk (warmed) in the bottle with me holding it. 

Aprilynn0206

we started at 12m and she was off it by 13m

Jacques715

pintpo:

12 months.  I thought it was going to be rough because she seemed so attached to it.  For us it just took finding the right sippy cup that she could actually use (and one that did not leak like crazy).

She uses a sippy cup for water, has since nine months, just flat out refuses to drink milk from a sippy cup. If we put milk in a sippy cup instead of a bottle she will throw it to the floor and yell.

robynlesley

Jacques715:

She uses a sippy cup for water, has since nine months, just flat out refuses to drink milk from a sippy cup. If we put milk in a sippy cup instead of a bottle she will throw it to the floor and yell.

This was my DS?with the yelling. He refused to drink milk from a sippy cup (and I tried at least 5 different kinds). So I just stopped giving him milk (with my pedi's OK) in bottles.  For a few days I didn't even offer it in a cup. But I've been offering him milk in his favorite type of cup and he's starting to drink it.

emberlee3

11 1/2 months (he started weaning himself from breast/bottle at 10 months, though, so we were lucky!)

Jacques715

robynlesley:

15 months. Cold turkey.

DS still isn't good at taking milk from his sippy but I keep offering it and today he drank around 2-3 oz.  I upped his yogurt and other sources of dairy because he used to love his milk (warmed) in the bottle with me holding it. 

So when you say cold turkey, one morning you just decided not to give him a bottle anymore and just stopped, right? How did he handle this? I feel like my DD will have a massive melt down. She intakes about 28 ounces a day and walks around saying bottle bottle bottle at every meal time which is when she usually has a bottle.

Did you speak with your pedi about it? I am planning to at her 15 mth app. next week.

Jacques715

robynlesley:

Jacques715:

She uses a sippy cup for water, has since nine months, just flat out refuses to drink milk from a sippy cup. If we put milk in a sippy cup instead of a bottle she will throw it to the floor and yell.

This was my DS?with the yelling. He refused to drink milk from a sippy cup (and I tried at least 5 different kinds). So I just stopped giving him milk (with my pedi's OK) in bottles.  For a few days I didn't even offer it in a cup. But I've been offering him milk in his favorite type of cup and he's starting to drink it.

This sounds promising- thanks!!!

Was the transition off of milk entirely so difficult at first?

MrsBatty

I still allow DD her bottle twice a day (10 oz at a time)  b/c we have the same problem with her flat out refusing to take milk from her sippy.

I will continue to give her those bottles until she will take a sippy, because she recently dipped into the 5% for weight at her 15 mo. check-up.

I try not to let it bug me.  At least I know this way she's getting the calcium/calories/fat she needs. 

 

katlizabeth

I bf'd a lot, so when I was home, it was just me, so ds only had bottles 2-3 times a day when I wasn't home.  We switched one of those to a sippy and I realized by 13 months when I was home with him for a week that we hadn't used a bottle at all during the day (and no nursing, just at the am and pm) so I told my aunt (who watches ds) that we were done with bottles.  It was easy for us, but I think that's because he only had a few a day. 

robynlesley

In my prev. post I meant to write WITHOUT the yelling.  And to reply to the question about cold turkey?yes, with my pedi's OK.

My pediatrician said DS didn't need the milk per se, he just needed the vitamins and nutrients from it and that he could get it from his multivitamin and other dairy products?such as yogurt and cheese.

My son also took in about 12 oz of whole milk before I stopped giving it to him.  Though by the time I went "cold turkey" he was only taking 1 or 2 bottles per day, so perhaps it wasn't so traumatic.

If your DD is taking 28 oz, perhaps drop bottles one at a time?  (My pedi said no more than 16 oz per day... but I guess every one is different.) I couldn't imagine going cold turkey with that many bottles, so I can see your dilemma. 

Amymichelle925

On his first birthday, cold turkey and we never looked back.  I'm dreading giving up the binky (it's a nap/bedtime thing only).  Giving up that will be hard, and I need to get him off of it soon, I'm scared.

Lucky428

robynlesley:

Jacques715:

She uses a sippy cup for water, has since nine months, just flat out refuses to drink milk from a sippy cup. If we put milk in a sippy cup instead of a bottle she will throw it to the floor and yell.

This was my DS?with the yelling. He refused to drink milk from a sippy cup (and I tried at least 5 different kinds). So I just stopped giving him milk (with my pedi's OK) in bottles.  For a few days I didn't even offer it in a cup. But I've been offering him milk in his favorite type of cup and he's starting to drink it.

Does he drink from the sippy that's in your siggy?  We have that one, but he refuses to suck.  He only chews on the straw.

macchiatto

They were 12.5m. I decided to go for it after transitioning to milk because I read that if you wait much past 12m it becomes more of an attachment thing and can be more difficult to wean. We made sure they could drink pretty well from straw sippies and then just dropped bottles cold-turkey. Alex handled the transition great. Will resisted for 2 days but then was fine.

Jacques715

MrsBatty:

I still allow DD her bottle twice a day (10 oz at a time)  b/c we have the same problem with her flat out refusing to take milk from her sippy.

I will continue to give her those bottles until she will take a sippy, because she recently dipped into the 5% for weight at her 15 mo. check-up.

I try not to let it bug me.  At least I know this way she's getting the calcium/calories/fat she needs. 

 

Hey!!! How are you??

Yup, my DD is really small too which is why I am hesitant to give up the bottle as well.

AfterAll

just before he turned 1 year.  I just took them away and he never looked for them or seemed to notice. 

easyBreezie

10 months. But I pumped so he just took it from a sippy. I introduced the sippy at 4 months so by then he was drinking from it regularly.

lewis514

17 months - she needed to be off the bottle to move up to the next room in daycare. I was planning on doing it around that time anyway. I went cold turkey with the bottles and had to try 2-3 sippys different than her water sippy to work. What finally worked for us was to go to a sippy that uses a regular straw versus a sippy spout.

katekirschner

15 months cold turkey. We were only on a bedtime bottle by then anyway. Didn't even phase her the next night.

Jacques715

Mrs. VanKirk:

10 months. But I pumped so he just took it from a sippy. I introduced the sippy at 4 months so by then he was drinking from it regularly.

Have not tried a sippy with a straw, I'll try that. Thanks!!

Cheekie4

She weaned at 12 months (cold turkey).  This wasn't exactly the plan we had, but it's what happened.  We started a horrible habit of a baba right before bedtime & naps.  One day, she refused her morning nap baba & was fiesty.  She missed her afternoon & bedtime babas b/c we were at a family gathering & she fell asleep in the car.  I figured if we were okay with one day, then we'd be good. 

It hasn't been super easy, but it hasn't been hard.  The worst for her is at daycare.  She's still in the baby room & sees a LOT of bottles.  She asks for them verbally (babaaa) & signs for them at DC.  At home, she's happy w/ her sippies.

JLW10

Around 12 months

janice74

This is totally my DS. He has never taken a paci, but he LOVES his bottle.  He points to the bottles and says "ba-ba" over and over when it's time (he gets 4 a day) and gets angry when I give milk to him in a cup.  I tried offering cups through the day, along with bottles, but it just isn't working.  Tonight we told him we were packing up all the bottles as his Christmas gift to the baby and he is only getting cups during the day.  We will continue to just give him one bottle at bedtime for awhile.  

I'm going to see how it goes this week.  He is on the thin side, so I like him to get his calories, plus I feel really bad taking away something he loves so much, but I don't want it to get worse later on.

mechanicsgirl

14 months.  I had my son right before she turned 12 months so I wasn't too worried about it.  I wouldn't really have been worried otherwise, either.  We eliminated daytime bottles, then the bedtime, then last, the first thing in the morning bottle.

kiwi443

9 months. He really like his sippy.

julieb00lie

Around 10.5-11 months.

nmr79

  We did it right around 12.5-13ish months.  Still, the only cups that she will take milk from are either the Born Free or the NUK learner cups.  She'll drink water from any cup, the the other two are only for milk.  She only drinks about 14 oz. daily, though (first thing in the AM and right before her bath at night).

Quiksilver620

right at 12 months we quit all bottle cold turkey except for the 1 right before bed. That took about 2 weeks to get rid of

jcsntms06

We started weaning DD from the bottle at 12 months. Was successful with sippy at daycare, but had some issues (more or less DH and I weren't ready) so at 14 months should is completely weaned from bottle. It's wonderful.

kabarbanel

12 months. For about 2 weeks we started cutting them back and switching to sippy. He was down to 2 bottles and then one day I decided we would just be done, and that was that. He took to the sippy much better once that was his only option.