bottles to cup

christyandnate

How did you transition off of bottles, gradually or all at once?  He has been getting a sippy/straw with water or pumped milk for about 3 months and he does fine with them but it seems like he just sips off of it rather than finish them like a bottle  I guess I am concerned that he will not drink enough through the day.   He takes 5 bottles right now of pumped milk (since he quit nursing at 10 months).  I was thinking at a year to send him with only cups of milk and then keeping the night time bottle for a while, or should I just get rid of them all at once or gradually?  Sorry, I just realized this is a ramble but I am in denial he will be 1 soon

KYmama9286

We are just now working on transitioning him from bottles to his straw cups. Currently he gets bottles of formula still (for dietary reasons) but we would like him to do those "bottles" from a straw cup instead. Right now he does like your LO does where he will sip on the straw cups throughout the day but doesnt really drink from them if that makes any sense. We would like to be done w/ bottles by the end of the month if possible so to answer your question I guess we are gradually weaning. We might still keep the nighttime bottle indefinitely since its really no big deal and I know hes not 100% dependent on it to go to bed since he occasionally doesn't have it. HTH!

linzpinz14

I put the formula in a sippy (she never got the hang of the lift and tilt, so we used the nuby with a straw and it worked a lot better.)  After 10 or 11 months I fed her solids with a sippy before we did a bottle.  So whatever she didn't drink from the sippy, I put in the bottle. And I gradually weaned the bottles too.  I got rid of the lunch one, then the dinner bottle.  Right before she turned 1, she was drinking enough from the sippy and eating enough food, that I didn't even need the breakfast bottle anymore.  It actually went surprisingly easy, but I still cried the first day I realized I wasn't going to be giving my baby a bottle anymore!