additional milk question plus bed time and regular bottle weening

mamayo26 · June 2013

So with formula you have to toss it if LO drinks from it and doesn't finish within an hour...do you have to do the same for milk? I'm not against tossing it, but if I can stick it back in the fridge and give it to him later I am all for that (as long as it is safe).

Due to the fact that we have been having dinner later than normal DS hasn't wanted his bedtime bottle, should i try cutting it out now as we want to ween him from that soon anyway. He would still get a "snack" before bed if we have dinner early one night or he goes down later for one reason or another, but we want the bed time bottle part of our routine to go away...he hasn't really finished one in over a week and has been pushing it way when we offer it anyway...pedi recommended we add another book to replace the bottle as part of the routine...any other suggestions?

How did you ween LO off the bottle at other times...I see the biggest issue being for DS to not get his morning "bottle". Any suggestion on how to make this easier for him since milk in the sippy should now be part of his meal (per pedi) instead of getting a bottle of formula and then feeding him his meal of solids.

TIA

unaveragejane · June 2013

We replaced the evening bottle with a sippy of water. He doesn't drink much of it, but it still gives us time to cuddle and read books.

Getting rid of the morning bottle was a little bit harder for him, but I just put him in the high chair with a sippy of milk and his regular breakfast (banana and cheerios). He was not thrilled about it, but after 2 days, it was NBD to him at all.

RedDDD · June 2013

I have to admit I have been really lax about this. First, yes I put the bottle back in the fridge. BUT DS drinks almond milk and no cows milk and I have that attitude just because it is so freakin expensive I don't want to throw it out We had some relapse with the sippys/bottles recently. All of a sudden he decided he didn't want the sippy. I decided it wasn't a battle worth fighting right now. He drinks water and juice during the day at DC and milk in the morning and evening at home. I guess Im just not that concerned with weening him from the bottle. Im sure Ill get scolded by my Pedi at his 15 month apt. But what evs....

Im just shocked you can get a one year old to sit long enough to read a book! LOL

PrimRoseMama · June 2013

We gradually switched to a sippy cup for the last bottle of the night and then one day just got rid of bottles all together. It was no biggie.

As far as milk goes I give the milk in small quantities. I would rather her ask me for more than waste it. So, about 4 oz at a time in her sippy cup. She downs it and asks for more if she wants it. She is a milk monster though, so your LO may not ask for as much as my DD does.

harmonicbabe26 · June 2013

Just stick what is left over in the fridge! People are so scared of everything.... I always put formula in the fridge anyway and never had any issues.

We stopped with bottles pretty much cold turkey when I felt that had a good handle on how to use a sippy. She's been getting a morning and evening bottle up till she was 12m 2weeks. But daytime formula/milk was in sippy since she was 10 months. Then after she turned 1 we switched around the order of things. She got milk in sippy with breakfast instead of first thing in the morning after wake up, and evening sippy of milk in her room while we read books, instead of drinking it out of a bottle. Then brushing teeth and bed. Sometimes she doesn't drink all her milk sometimes she does. Usually if she's still full from dinner she doesn't finish.

Also breakfast s the only meal when she gets milk. I have tried it and if I offer milk she will choose is over food so she gets meals with water and milk as snack and before bed. Been doing this for over 4 months and it works great.

vrj0522 · June 2013

I'm not really sure but I do stick the milk back in the fridge. I figured if it's fine for me, it should be fine for him too now that he's a toddler. Usually if he doesn't want the milk, I don't leave it out for an hour, but put it back in the fridge as soon as I notice he wants no more and if he might want more later, even if in a few minutes, I pull it back out, that way it spends as little time out of the fridge as possible.

I think as long as he is drinking enough milk for the day, it doesn't matter how many oz he drinks at the end of the day. We currently do 3 bottles with 6 oz in the morning, 4 oz in the middle of the day, and 6 oz at night. Sometimes though I give him his bottle an hour before bed.

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