What age did you get rid of baby's bottle? or Plan to?

pinkysun · June 2011

No flames if I am the last one with a 19 month old to even start thinking about getting rid of the bottle. The doctors in our group are pretty cool about it. Half say get them off at 18 months or earlier and the other half say 2 years. Just curious what the general age everyone is getting rid of bottles at.

Serinn · June 2011

I started around his first birthday and was down to just at night the next month, then I think another month or so after that he was done all together. But he was just as eager as me to be done, especially during the day. He really loves his cups.

benkari · June 2011

Daytime bottles were gone at 10 months and bedtime one was done at 11 months. I couldn't wait to be done bottles!

liza0828 · June 2011

She still takes 3 bottles a day, but we're going to work on weaning off them this summer.

pinkysun · June 2011

Impressive Ladies!

I have a few friends who got rid of them at 12 months and then 18 months. My little one was low weight and had a horrible gag reflex that is still going on. So I hated to give up the bottle as it was his main source of nutrition. Now he loves his cup but still loves the bottle so we are taking baby steps!

VTFutureMrs · June 2011

We got rid of bottles before he turned one. We had already been giving him water from a sippy cup and we just used the same ones for milk. I don't think he missed the bottles at all.

C-Charm · June 2011

At 13 months--when I stopped pumping. She only took bottles (of EBM) at daycare. I was too nervous to send the liquid gold in sippy cups 'cause I thought she may spill it.

She did sippy cups for a short while then we went cold turkey--water from regular cups and momma milk straight from the tap.

g8trkim · June 2011

We were down to just the night bottle at 11 1/2 months. We ditched the last one right after a year.

livinreality · June 2011

My doctors recommend starting at 12 months and like to have them off by 18 months. LO has weight issues so at his 18 month appt we decided the nutrition was more important than cup vs bottle. She said she would like him off by his 2 year old check up.

The next week we bought an Elmo cup and the bottles were history. I am glad we waited on LO and his timing it made things very easy.

Gen & Joel · June 2011

I started at 12 months but the daytime one's were gona at 15 months and the one before bed had been gone for about a week. I'm still trying to get rid of the early a.m one ;(

JulySpark05 · June 2011

DD has been on sippys during the day since maybe 9 or 10 months and I kept her bedtime bottle until the day before her 1st Birthday. She never noticed or cared. So completely off bottles by a year.

MNgirl326 · June 2011

i am working on transitioning to milk first, which should be done in the next week or so. Then we will work on getting rid of the bottle. My goal is to have him off both formuila and the bottle by the time he turns 14 months.

marykaybride · June 2011

We took away bottles 4 days after his first birthday. He didn't really notice, but we got him onto straw sippies around 8 months, so he was used to them at meal times. His pedi and his dentist said no bottles after 1 and we went with that.

pinkysun · June 2011

livinreality:
My doctors recommend starting at 12 months and like to have them off by 18 months. LO has weight issues so at his 18 month appt we decided the nutrition was more important than cup vs bottle. She said she would like him off by his 2 year old check up.
The next week we bought an Elmo cup and the bottles were history. I am glad we waited on LO and his timing it made things very easy.

We had some weight and gag reflux issues so nutrition was a reason to keep the bottles for us too. But thanks so much for your post because I never thought of an ELMO CUP! MY LO is obsessed with Elmo and I think that will be the key to an easy transition. Right now he will ONLY drink water out of his cups and the few times I have gotten him to drink milk or smoothies out of his cups has been a total battle. But now with Elmo in the picture I think it will be another story.

I just ordered 3 Elmo straw cups from Amazon...wish me luck!

MommyMar2010 · June 2011

Daytime bottles were gone at 12 months, we are weaning her off her bedtime bottle right now.....expect to be done for good this weekend---so at 15 months she'll be off bottles

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