Weaning to WCM and sippys

Wildlandwife

How do I do this?  DD drinks from her sippy, no problem.

I know I'm suppose to wait until she hits a year, but I'm tired of fighting the bottle and formula.  Sometimes she'll take it, but more often than not, she'll take a swig or two and be done.  At bed, it's a struggle to get an oz or two in her.  So I thought about trying the WCM.

But how do I do it?  Offer it at each meal (with her water too)?  Replace it at bottle time? 

I'm a confused FTM!!

theprincessPAT

We didn't have to fight with bottles, but we did the switch slowly around 11 months.  I just switched one ounce of formula out for one ounce of WCM and did another ounce every couple of days until we were fully on WCM.  You could always just try the WCM in a sippy and see if she likes it.  Some kids like it right off the bat and others (like my DD) need the transition.

Sonadora

We switched around 11.5 months. We started cutting her bottles with WCM and offering it to her plain at meals in her sippy. After a weekish we were totally off formula and she loves WCM.

Now...if we could only ditch that last bottle of the night.

amberdaz

DD had soy & diary allergies so pedi recommended a slow transition. We added 1 oz and gradually increased over a month.

DD didn't mind the taste of WCM but she wanted milk in a bottle vs. sippy. She could drink 8oz of water in a sippy but we give her milk and she'd take a few drinks and throw it. DC only allows sippy cups in 1y class but at home she'd still get the bottle since she would only drink 1-2 oz milk during the day. It took us a couple months to wean her from the bottle and now she loves her milk in sippy.

GL!

hopingwaiting

I added an ounce to BM, then two ounces and so on until all milk and no BM.  Took a month and a half.  He did NOT like non mama milk lol.

magdalina.h

We started him on WCM around the same age as your DD. I gave him a sip of it and then checked for any allergies. Once I knew he didn't have an allergy, I dropped a bottle and gave WCM with a meal. We offer him water during the day and keep WCM for meals and snack time.