How many bottles?

Starishna · December 2013

How many bottles do you feed your LO at what age? I am starting to wean from EBF and starting with 4 oz. goats milk with 1 oz. cow milk and just moved to a 3/2 mix today with two bottles per day before each nap. My DD just turned 1 year and she refuses milk from a sippy cup so I have to do bottles. How many do you give per day?

jennajoybeck · December 2013

My DS (13 months today) takes an 8oz bottle before nap and another before bed. We're trying to transition, but I also have a 2 month old, so I'm not pressuring myself.

Have you tried the sippies with a straw? It seems like if you go from EBF to bottles, tutu may just be creating one more hurdle for yourself to cross in the weaning process.

Good luck!

ss265 · December 2013

DS is almost 13 months and still drinks formula/milk from a bottle. He gets water in a sippy at every meal. We have weight issues with him and I am slowly decreasing the amount of dairy (he gets 25 oz a day now) and trying to increase table food/baby food. I am focused on getting him eating better and giving him more practice with a sippy before I try and transition him off bottles. Most pedis recommend transitioning off bottles by 15 months.

Mrs.RockyM · December 2013

DD is just about 14 months and we're fully off the bottle and have been for about a month (maybe a little less). I'd keep pushing the milk, and try different sippy cups - straws, hard spouts, soft spouts, handles, different brands, etc.

vrj0522 · December 2013

Once DS turned a year, we went to 16-24 oz of milk a day. He loved all things dairy so I try to give more around 16 oz so that he gets other foods too. He was borderline anemic at 15 months so that's what made me pull back on the dairy but before that he was having closer to 20-24 oz of milk per day, split into 4 bottles. Now we do 3 cups of milk.

Also, until your LO is taking to the cup well for water and juice, I would not take away the bottle. If he is not drinking regularly from it, he will not drink milk either. DS was closer to 15 months before he was happy with a sippy cup with water and juice. Now at 18 months, I just took away the bottle a week ago and because I could he wasn't as attached to it anymore, it was a fairly easy transition.

Starishna · December 2013

I still nurse morning and evening however she gets 10 oz. between the two bottles. My DD also gets a YoToddler yogurt for breakfast every morning so I believe she is good on the dairy. She does well with the straw cup and water, however she is just now starting to drink more. She was passing hard stools which I believe had to do with lack of liquids. Once we increased her liquids her stool was normal. She is now eating less so I want to make sure she isn't having too much dairy. I really am doing my best with trying to transition her off the bottle it's not an overnight process.

While weaning off the breast is not ideal I can only do one type of weaning at once. Since I can't force my DD to drink from a sippy and she wasn't getting enough liquid from EBF I made the decision to do bottles. At one year of age I understand that most people are weaning off bottles not beginning to introduce them. If you must know when we skip a nursing session and I pump I barely get 3 oz. and that is pumping for 25 minutes every three hours.

I am frustrated when trying to get support only one person really answered my question. Vrj0522 was the only one to help with my issue while everyone else said I need to be using a sippy. I understand that posting in an online forum opens yourself up to criticism, but why "attack" someone's parenting without knowing the entire issue? Do I really need to spell out a life story just to ask how many bottles with how much milk? I thought this was a place where you could go to ask others advice for the well being of their LO not to get bullied because someone has a different viewpoint in bottles at 12 months.

jennajoybeck · December 2013

I'm sorry if my post came across as unsupportive. That was not my intention at all. All I know is my own situation, which I shared with you. I don't claim to have answers, only limited experience. I don't feel there is any bullying happening in this thread. Just opinions and personal experiences, which is what you'll get in a forum. We all just want what's best for our LO, like you said.

g8trkim · December 2013

Starishna said:

I still nurse morning and evening however she gets 10 oz. between the two bottles. My DD also gets a YoToddler yogurt for breakfast every morning so I believe she is good on the dairy. She does well with the straw cup and water, however she is just now starting to drink more. She was passing hard stools which I believe had to do with lack of liquids. Once we increased her liquids her stool was normal. She is now eating less so I want to make sure she isn't having too much dairy. I really am doing my best with trying to transition her off the bottle it's not an overnight process. While weaning off the breast is not ideal I can only do one type of weaning at once. Since I can't force my DD to drink from a sippy and she wasn't getting enough liquid from EBF I made the decision to do bottles. At one year of age I understand that most people are weaning off bottles not beginning to introduce them. If you must know when we skip a nursing session and I pump I barely get 3 oz. and that is pumping for 25 minutes every three hours. I am frustrated when trying to get support only one person really answered my question. Vrj0522 was the only one to help with my issue while everyone else said I need to be using a sippy. I understand that posting in an online forum opens yourself up to criticism, but why "attack" someone's parenting without knowing the entire issue? Do I really need to spell out a life story just to ask how many bottles with how much milk? I thought this was a place where you could go to ask others advice for the well being of their LO not to get bullied because someone has a different viewpoint in bottles at 12 months.

I think everyone's posts were helpful and supportive. Nobody criticized you. They suggested continuing to offer a sippy so that you wouldn't have to wean your LO off yet one more thing down the road. You asked for experiences and got good advice. Rather than accept it you got defensive and attacked people who were trying to help. Saying you are being bullied... seriously? That's totally unfair. Anyway... to answer your question... DD is 12 months. She gets a morning and evening bottle (5ish ounces each) and straw sippy cups in the day. DS stopped the bottle a couple days before he turned one.

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