Still using bottles?

DoctorWorm222

Crystal mentioned in another thread that she tossed V's bottles after her first birthday. I'm still giving E a bottle first thing in the morning and at bedtime. Am I the only one? Is it time to toss them and insist that she drink her milk from sippys?

wilsontl19191

We still give P 2-3 bottles a day - especially in the morning and at night.  Just like with everything else (swaddling, crib sleep, paci, etc), I will let him "tell" me when he is ready to do away with the bottle (within reason).  He gets his sippy for all meals and snacks.

cold0009

We replaced all bottles with a meal or a snack.  We dropped the last bottle when all of the formula ran out and my DD did really well with this.

cantalopes24

Maybe try changing just one for a few weeks then the other. I'd probably do the morning one first.

pistolannie

I'm with Wilson... we still do a bottle first thing in the morning and right before bed. He also gets one most days mid-afternoon (only abt. 5 oz or so). He gets sippies of water for every meal and snack and we will try to wean that afternoon bottle soon. I will worry about the other 2 bottles later, probably around 16-18 months.

shediva1

DoctorWorm222:

Crystal mentioned in another thread that she tossed V's bottles after her first birthday. I'm still giving E a bottle first thing in the morning and at bedtime. Am I the only one? Is it time to toss them and insist that she drink her milk from sippys?

We are still giving about 3 bottles a day, buy when the time comes we will probably do what we did with weaning the paci, just take it away and never give it back.  

amyc216

We do one first thing in the morning, before his nap and before bed.  I give him a sippy of water for the rest of the day, but he hardly drinks out of it.

UFCasey

Starting at 11 months we put breastmilk into sippy first, and then when he was done trying (or not trying) that, we put it into a bottle. Within a month he didn't need the bottle anymore. Sippies are so much easier to clean than those darn Dr. Brown bottles, so I was thrilled to pack the bottles away.

I will say - Rocco will only drink water out of a straw sippy and will only drink milk out of a rubber spout sippy. Go figure.

Elsa1984

Gator gets one before bed and one in the middle of the night if she wakes up

Nita2603

We are still doing bottles. A had gotten rid of them during the day himself but now wants a bottle as soon as he sees the baby have one. Oh well. I am ok with that.

karinothing

The only time we give a bottle is if someone else is putting him to bed. So maybe once every few weeks? He goes down for a nap at daycare without a bottle so I guess we could try it at home, but DH hasn't yet (I always nurse before naps/night).

kujayhawkgirl

Abby still gets 4 bottles! LOL .... she's just now beginning to eat a signficiant amount of purees and solids, though. We cut out the 5th bottle (9:30am bottle) about 2 weeks ago and she did great with that. Next, we're going to cut out her 3:30pm bottle. Those two times have turned into little snacks and some water. She gets a bottle first thing in the morning at home (6:30am) and then eats a puree/solids breakfast at daycare about 8ish. She then has a solids/puree lunch at 11:30 and has a small bottle to "top her off" at 12:30. She eats a bottle at 3:30. She has a puree/solids dinner at 5:30 and then gets topped off with a bottle at 6:15.

mamaZbo

cold0009:

We replaced all bottles with a meal or a snack.  We dropped the last bottle when all of the formula ran out and my DD did really well with this.

This exactly. it has been about a month and it didn't phase DD at all.

nittanyllama

We completely got rid of bottles at the same time as the transition to WCM was complete (threw out the formula and packed away the bottles). He gets sippies of water or juice with meals, and milk 3 times a day in a sippy (morning, nap, and bedtime). I was afraid there was no point to keeping bottles if he would take the sippy. And I was afraid if we let him use bottles too long he wouldn't want to give them up. But those were just my thoughts.

RoxRing

We do bottles, but we still do formula.  I'm hoping when we transition to something else, we just cut out the bottles.  He's cranky if he doesn't get the bottles.  My latest issue is I can't even get him to try milk.  Organic or any kind.  He scrunches up his face like he doesn't like it and that's it!

aliciaroset

We are still doing the boob at home and bottle at daycare. SHe drinks water out of a real cup or sippy if I'm being lazy. SHe doesn't want anything to do with cow milk.

aandg

DD drinks milk out of a sippy during the day, but I still give her a bottle right before bed time. She would probably be fine with a sippy then too, but I still like giving her a bottle then. I'll probably get rid of it in the next couple weeks. She was easy to get off the bottle.

DS was a nightmare. He didn't totally get rid of the bottle until he was about 20 months. He would drink water out of a sippy no problem, but he would scream like we were killing him if we tried to give him milk in the sippy. Looking back now we should have just thrown all of the bottles away and he would have eventually gotten over it.

nikki2246

DD drinks a bottle in the morning and then some nights in the middle of the night if she wakes and is hungry. During the day she drinks 2 sippy cups of milk and water in her sippy with meals.

joolz17

G's last bottle is before bed. I guess it's probably time to start transitioning that to a sip cup before bathtime. I just love that last snuggle. Maybe after Christmas when my belly is getting bigger and the snuggling gets tougher.

lkm2006

He still gets 2, sometimes 3, bottles of WCM a day.  He has weaned himself from all the others and has actually started weaning away from another right now. 

Since he is doing it himself, I would prefer to keep it that way and continue following his cues.  

Scramblersmom

I give a bottle to DS first thing in the morning and at bedtime. The rest of the time he is on sippy cups. We will eventually get to sippy cups 100% but I am not pushing it right now.

Sunburn19

I'm so glad you posted this.  I've been wondering just how spoiled Aidan is.  He still loves his bottle and I keep wondering how and if he should be weening.  He likes it when he goes to sleep and at least a couple of times when he's awake, hungry and apparently not satisfied with his big-boy food.  I was beginning to wonder if we've been spoiling him and from what I can tell from the pp's, we are.  Damn.

Ariana2O11

He gets two bottles a day (morning and evening). I'll probably keep it up for a little bit longer.

mrs.lizzieb

E still gets 3 milk bottles/day.  She gets water in a straw sippy at other times, but I haven't yet transitioned the milk to the sippy.  Probably will do so in a month or so. 

Mrs. Mo

I (literally) bought every type of sippy cup I can find & there is only 1 type that she likes (she HATES straws). It looks exactly like a bottle (go figure). I still use an actual bottle for her 1st cup of milk of the day (most of the time she is thirsty but 1/2 asleep) and I try to use the sippy at dinnertime. Before bed, we use another bottle but mostley so that I don't have to wash the 1 sippy we use right away (flame away!) While at DC, she uses a sippy just like that one I use. My kid likes milk. Scratch that, she LOVES milk. She is a very good eater but still wants to have WCM 5-6 times a day. I was a big milk lover when I was young, so I know where she gets it from! She is still in the 15-20% for weight so we are not concerned at the fact that she eats a bunch & still haves that much milk.

CMonkey515

DS gets WCM 3-4 times a day. He also drinks water throughout the day and at meals. We have a straw cup with water available for him at all times. His morning milk is in a sippy, but his milk before naps and bed are in a bottle. He actually didnt take a bottle at all until a few months ago. I found that using a bottle at nap and bed times was easier when we were weaning because I would still hold and snuggle him while he drank the bottle. It was closer to nursing that way. In the next few months I'll start giving his nap milk in sippies too, and transition the before bed bottle last.