MoM's with 1 yo's+...formula to milk process

mamatotwins0812

I don't know why I am so caught up in this and feeling like it is completely overwhelming to me. LO's were given the thumbs up from pedi to start the transition to milk and I feel like such a lost soul. Up until yesterday they were on 4 formula bottles a day (@7:30, 11:30, 4:00, 7:00) with breakfast and dinner and a light lunch/snack in between. Today I am starting to work on the transition and feel lost. For the morning bottle I did 5 oz formula and 2oz milk, gave breakfast as normal. I skipped the 11:30 bottle and gave a meal at 12. My plan was to give them another bottle at 3ish then again at bedtime to get us down to 3 bottles before jumping down to 2 and they seemed hungry to me by 2:30 which made me feel terrible. I gave them the bottle then and am thinking that they should be ok now with dinner at our normal time then bedtime bottle but I am just really struggling with the logistics of this. I know it will work itself out but I am petrified that they aren't getting enough food/nutrition and I don't know if I am doing the right thing by staying with bottles and not formula/milk in sippys. I tried milk in a sippy at lunch and it was a disaster bc they aren't sippy pros yet even with water...I just feel like I am doing this all wrong and would love to hear how it worked for you and what you did with your LO's. TIA!

carrotcake06

W my singleton, I BFed, but I worked so I would nurse AM, then at daycare he'd get two sippies of milk to replace the two bottles of BM he would have normally gotten, then BF before bed. Food didnt change.

It took him about 2 weeks to get the hang of the sippies, but there was then no breaking the bottle habit. We BFed until 20 mo, but if I had FF, I might have initially kept the formula bottles AM and PM to start.

JustcallmeGG2

Mine just turned a year, but we are still on 4 bottles. They eat lots of food and still are starving. You can try to do smaller bottles but keep 4 maybe?

Also mind are not ready to go to the sippy cup full time. What's the rush?

LucyRicardo3

FWIW my girls were on bottles until about 19 months and Miss J learned how to invert the bottle nipple and milk would go everywhere. It became a game to her and after stripping the carseats and wiping out what seemed like the entire van 2x, I put them on sippys cold turkey. I packed up all bottles/anything bottle related while they were sleeping so they wouldn't get distracted.

I don't remember specifics of the milk transition, but I just gradually replaced oz for oz of formula to milk. No other eating/snack routine changed. I was worried about how difficult it might be, but I just jumped in. When it was complete, I was so happy to kick formula to the curb; it was like getting a pay raise!

good luck!

LottaLattes

I started by just feeding first and giving bottles after, which meant they were drinking a ton less after a couple days. I finally just decided to go for it and took away their bottles all day, give water in sippies all day except 4oz of milk in the morning in a sippy and 8oz in a bottle at night before bed. I am not much of a juice person but that would also work during the day.

It seems like they won't possibly get enough but they will! Just make sire the food is healthy and you are good!