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1 Year - switch to sippy or bottle

MrsThirdBirdMrsThirdBird member
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I made it to 1 Year! I'm very happy about that!  It's a  bit bittersweet to start the weaning process, but I am ready.  The last few months I only hung on knowing he'd be 1 soon.

 My DS got breastfed or pumped bottle 4 times a day.  I've been able to transition to only do the 1st thing in the morning and bedtime feeding and stopped pumping in between. I'm thinking of stopping the morning feeding this week. I think evening is going to be toughest.  Any input or advice?

 I had a bunch of milk in the freezer so I have been using that for his daytime bottles.  His morning cereal we started to use whole milk and he's been doing ok with it.  The Dr suggested mixing his daytime bottles to 1/2 BM and 1/2 WM for a few days before going straight to whole milk.  Shoudl we use this same time to transition to sippy cup instead of bottle?  Or is this too much change at once?  I tried the sippy over the weekend and he only ate 2 of his 6 ozs. About 20 mins later he was just playing with the cup so I switched it ot the bottle and he seeme to almost chug it.  Not sure what is best to do.

TIA

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Re: 1 Year - switch to sippy or bottle

  • SnoopyLuvSnoopyLuv member
    Do yourself a favor and go straight to the sippy! No sense in introducing the bottle just to wean in a few months.
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  • MrsThirdBirdMrsThirdBird member
    That's what I was thinking, but I'm just afraid he is going to refuse it or drastically decrease his milk intake :(
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  • jllmb79jllmb79 member
    At one year I slowly gave bottles instead of BF sessions. I know everyone frowns on that but it worked for me. I also had lots of frozen milk to still feed, so I did cows milk just with dinner in a sippy. At 15months I told her the bottles were all dirty and only offered sippy cups. This was a really easy transition for us and no fighting
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