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How did you wean baby from bottle

MylilpumpkinMylilpumpkin member
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We are in the process of weaning our little boy from the bottle.  He will take some sips from a sippy cup, but gets most of his fluids from his 2 bottles-one in am, one at bedtime.  His fluid intake has dropped since trying to wean from the bottle and he is becoming constipated.  Wondering how other moms dealt with the transition.
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  • MrsF1021MrsF1021
    We went cold turkey. DD was drinking pretty well from the straw kind of sippy cup already though.  I just gave that to her in the morning with breakfast instead of a bottle the first day and continued it with all meals. It took her a couple of days and her fluid intake did go down for a few days while she was getting the hang of it.
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  • rosesandpeoniesrosesandpeonies member
    Cold turkey but It wasn't done until she was 19 months old.  It was tough for us.
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  • Dreamsicle23Dreamsicle23 member
    Cold turkey...like ripping off a band-aid.
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  • lindseychase06lindseychase06

    We did it around 12 months. We had introduced the sippy with water around 8 months, so he was very comfortable with using it. I started dropping one bottle at a time, replacing it with a sippy of milk. We did the bedtime one last, but even that went smoothly.

    I think it went well because of the transition.

    GL! 

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  • NNCNNC

    DD was already taking water from a sippy, so we put milk straw cups which she apparently thinks are more "fun". 

    We cut out one bottle at a time (first the afternoon bottle).  It took a week or so before the amount of milk she drank in the afternoon was even close to how much she used to get in a bottle.  After that, we replaced another bottle, and this time she was much faster about transitioning.  Eventually, all bottles were cut out.  

    One thing for us though is that drinking from a cup takes a lot longer than from the bottle.  With a bottle, she'd down 6-8 oz in one gulp, but with the cup, she drink a few sips here and there, go play, come back for another sip.  

    HTH

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