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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
Jess8589
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When was your LO off the bottle?
Jess8589
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DS will be 14 months on the 30th and still on the bottle. He will drink water out of a sippy but doesn't like drinking milk out of a sippy - at least for us. Apparently he drinks milk out of a sippy for daycare and for my parents but throws a shiitfit for us. I know eventually I'm going to have to lay the hammer down and just take it away. I think the nighttime bottle is going to be the hardest just because it is part of our routine. Any tips?
'All I want for you my son, is to be satisfied'
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Re: When was your LO off the bottle?
DD= 14 months
DS= 8.5 months
DS took to the sippy like a champ, and then we switched to a straw cup at 8 1/2 months and never looked back.
Have you tried a straw cup at all?
With dd1, she was on the bottle for naps and bedtime until 20m or so. We started by switching to bottles only at bedtimes. Other than that sippy cups with meals and snacks. If she refused milk in the sippy I would offer water or watered down juice. I kept offering the sippy with milk first, for sometime. Eventually she accepted milk in sippy cup, as that was the only option.
If she asked for the baba, I told her that was for bedtime and was she ready to go night night.
We did the same with dd2, except much sooner. At 1, she only got milk in a bottle and bedtimes, and sippy cup at all other times. About 14 months, she wasn't getting a bottle before bed anymore, so then bottles went bye bye.
You might want to find a sippy that feels more like a bottle to lo.
DD1 Feb 2010
DD2 Sept 2011
DS ~ 11 1/2 months
DD ~ 8 months
I also strongly recommend the straw cup if you haven't already.
Unfortunately, our daughter has some difficulty gaining/maintaining weight and, as she absolutely refuses to drink her milk out of anything but a bottle, our Doctor recommended allowing her to remain on it for a few more months, and then we will review.
DD = 10.5 months for daytime bottles, 11 months night time bottle... I gave her the option and she went with it.
DS = hated sippy cups until 11.5 months. 12m 1w, he's completely on sippy.
With both kids I stopped holding them to feed morning and afternoon bottles and just gave a bottle with breakfast/lunch. After they got used to that, I switched into sippy's. After a while of that, I added one at dinner and that was all she wrote. With DD I weaned her off the night bottle by replacing milk (which she had enough of throughout the day) with water which was less appealing to her and she just would go to bed after a sip or two.
11 1/2 months for the day time bottles and 12 1/2 months for the night one. I think you just need to bite the bullet. You know he can drink out of one so just offer sippies and don't give him a choice.
At 12 months he was off the bottle except for the night time bottle. Weaned the night time bottle around 14 months.
Cold turkey worked for us. It was a rough couple of days but then everything was fine. Good luck!
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I am very confused. I keep hearing that we aren't supposed to transition kids from the bottle to the sippy, but rather get them to learn how to use a real cup... but it seems like everyone does transition to the sippy...?
In any case, DS is not interested in the sippy, a regular cup or a cup with a built-in straw. And as we are about to throw him into a major life change (we are moving to a new country - i.e. new time zone, new language, new daycare, new house, new people) we are going to wait until he's settled after the move to push the transition away from the bottle. Hopefully it will be before the new baby comes (when DS will be 16 months), but if that doesn't happen, I don't really care.
DS was 12 months. He had been practicing with a sippy and a little bit of water since 6 months, so he didn't even blink when I took the bottle away.