Can you tell me what you did and how your experience was...

LSzwaya

taking a bottle away? DS Is 15 months so I would like to take the nap and bedtime bottles away. I know its probably best just to rip the bandaid off but I would like to know what your experience was and what worked for all of you moms. Thanks!

nillian10

we just slowly cut out bottles for sippy cups. we still give a bottle in morning and night time. and eventually we'll cut out the sippy cups. and bottles thereafter. i think it depends on your and your LO, but for us, it's better to have a weaning process than just do it all at once. GL!

kcisthebombdotcom

It was really easy. One day last week, we put his milk in a sippy cup instead of a bottle. It was like he never knew it was gone.

hersheykiss

We did it cold turkey the day after she turned 1. We just stopped giving her bottles and replaced them with sippy cups. We also switched from formula to whole milk at the same time. I didn't want her thinking she had choices as to how she got milk or formula. She did fine and never complained.

slmcronelaw

we started letting her use sippy cups very early, so she was used to them by the time she was a year old.  We just started giving her formula in her sippy around 11 months to get her used to having formula without the bottle, first just in the morning and still a bottle at night.  When we decided to cut out the night bottle, I put her formula in a sippy and held her like I always did giving her the bottle and she took right to it...completely on sippy cups by the time she was 1. Good luck!

vmm0016

We did cold turkey and after 3 days she was totally fine. 

chels0120

We would give DS a sippy with milk before we would put him down to nap. We really didn't have a hard time with it. I'm much more terrified of getting rid of the stupid binkie

ANJ410

I would try putting his milk in a cup and if he drinks it willingly, then just take away the bottles cold turkey. If he puts up a little resistance, then phase one out at a time.  

I did the same thing with both of my LO's:  I cut out one bottle at a time and replaced it with a cup of milk and a snack. I dropped one bottle a week until we phased out bottles completely. I never gave whole milk in a bottle though, always in a sippy from day one, so my kids never even knew there was an option to drink milk from a bottle. The both did really well with giving up the bottle.

I can tell you that it is harder when they are used to drinking a bottle before naps and bed.  My son had a really hard time falling asleep without sucking on the bottle first.  We had to do some CIO when we first transitioned him off of the bottle. DD never needed the bottle to fall asleep, so it was easier with her.