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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
mamayo26
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Weening bed time bottle
mamayo26
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At my son's 9 month appointment my his pedi said she wanted DS to be weening off his bed time bottle around a year.
Has anyone done this? What did you do that you recommend. DS still really depends on it, not so much that he needs the formula before bed, but that he just likes having a bottle. it has always been part of the routine and he depends on it from that aspect.
TIA!
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Re: Weening bed time bottle
I think you can wait until your LO is 12 months. We waited until 17 months to completely be off bottles.
Okay, PHEW! Because I was worried about my LO being off of bottles by now too. He is 13 months old.
But also it is annoying, because sometimes he will need 2 bottles
Per my pediatrician's recommendation, we started phasing out bottles during their 11 month. We were down to the morning and bedtime bottle by their 12 month appointment. Their pediatrician said to cut out all bottles and give them sippy cups instead at that time. My girls did great at 12 months skipping their morning bottle and getting a sippy cup instead but we had a rough week at bedtime. We offered a sippy cup of warm milk instead of the bottle before bed and they'd throw their cups and scream and cry. They even threw themselves on the floor crying for those darn bottles. It took about a week but they stopped crying and throwing their cups. Now we sit and read books with milk in sippy cups as a part of our bedtime routine instead of bottles.
One of my girls is still adjusting to her milk in a sippy cup but she's slowly taking more and more milk. She's been great with water in her cups for months but milk is somehow super foreign to her.
So it appears I may not have been clear in my original post.
His pedi wants him off bottles by 15-18 months, but just weened off the the bed time bottle by 12 months--as in no bottle at bed time around 12 months, right around when he is transitioning onto WCM.
I think I might do what a pp said and ween him on WCM and then try and get rid of the bedtime bottle.
I'm actually not too concerned about going from bottles to sippy since DS does pretty well with the straw sippy cups, I am just worried about cutting out the bed time "drink" at 12 months, especially since he has been having night terrors the past two weeks and has been fussy with his solid table food and only want purees.