what age did you wean from nightly bottle?

JMB2007 · November 2011

DS is almost 14 months old and still has 1 bottle 8 oz of whole milk before bed and still takes his "binky" to bed. He has sippy cups all day long with either, milk, water or juice and only has his "binky" at nap time and bedtime. I'm starting to think that I need to stop the night bottle now and the bikny I'm ok with until 18 months. What are others doing? Also, what weaning techniques did you use to either wean from bottle or binky?

Married2003 · November 2011

DS is 19m...he get a 5oz right before bed; he's been weaned of the paci for couple months.

g8trkim · November 2011

12 1/2 months

sherd · November 2011

DS just turned one on 10-29. He was still getting 3 6oz bottles a day and then an 8 oz night time bottle. Up until about a month ago he would also take a bottle in the night of 6 oz. I quit giving him the bottle in the middle of the night about a month ago. Last Monday, I threw all the bottles away and he quit cold turkey. We had been using the lided sippy cups for quite a while now for water during meals so he was used to them. I thought he would do horrible as he would crawl up my legs and get super cranky right before he would take a bottle, but he took to the change like a champ. Instead of offering him the 8oz before bed, I give him a sippy of milk and a small snack before bed. He probably only gets 3 oz or so of milk and a little something to fill his tummy.

MNgirl326 · November 2011

I packed up all bottles by 13 months. LO was getting a sippy of milk before bed until about 15 months, now hw just sips on water before bed

I would just replace the bottle with a sippy and not look back. Cold turkey can actually work wonders. If LO is fussy for a day or so, it will pass.

bekah22587@hotmail.com · November 2011

My DS "weaned" his self off bottles at about 9 months old. We have been using the straw sippies since 7 months.

Arielle27 · November 2011

DS has a bottle first thing in the AM and last thing before he goes to sleep. He loves the bottle and we don't feel the need to wean him from it at this time.

He hasn't had a pacifier since he was 6 months old.

anneimal98 · November 2011

A never took a paci, which used to drive me nuts but now it is nice that I don't have to worry about getting rid of that. Around 10mos, I started gradually decreasing the contents of his bedtime bottle (his last bottle in the transition to sippies) and about a month in, he started refusing it while teething. We just never offered it again after that.

zeptattoo · November 2011

We stopped at 15 months I think. Snuggle never took to the paci, although our friends are still using it and their DD will be two next month.

Monicagail1 · November 2011

We stopped using bottles right around a year-pretty much at the same time we switched over to regular milk. The evening bottle actually wasn't much of an issue for DD. It was the morning bottle that was hardest for us.

We started by switching out the mid-day bottles for sippys. Then we moved up the time of the last bottle over the course of a few days so that it was about an hour or so before bedtime, and then just switched it to a sippy. We had already established a bedtime routine, so we basically just changed time timing of the bottle within that routine. We are lucky that our daughter was already good at putting herself to bed and wasn't really relying on the bottle to fall asleep at that point anyway.

DD is 18 months and uses a paci at naps and bed. I haven't decided when to try to cut that out yet. We might give it a try after Christmas.

BelleIsa · November 2011

I still haven't weaned the night bottle from DD. I'll be doing it soon though; she takes her milk in a sippy in the morning and during the day - it's just me who's tied to the night bottle (love that extra snuggle time).

mommytoconnor · November 2011

I cut out his last night bottle at around 13 months. I threw them out and never looked back. If you don't have them to give to them, then you just don't. I honestly think it's more for us parents to have them as a "backup". Cold turkey worked for me. Good Luck

trizzie · November 2011

DS - I took it away cold turkey at 12 months. he took a sippy and never looked back. Until DD, I would have told you to do that. However, DD REFUSES milk in a sippy. Flat out refuses (and I have been trying for a while). She is also a bottomless pit. So, despite the fact she eats all day, she still needs that nighttime bottle. She will continue to get that bottle for a while and get milk in a sippy in the day.

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