13 Month Old and Bottles

Give him some time not all kids are the same. Wean him off of it slowly not cold turkey..I started with juice in the sippy then graduated to the milk. He'll come around be patient.

Good Luck!

If he get thirsty enough he will drink from the cup.

Nuby cups really worked great with my boys. They have silicone spouts like nipples, so they take to them easily. They are also cheap! You will want to convert to a hard tip spout later, as they will learn how to make a mess with them.

Some people just go "cold turkey" and throw all the bottles away so that the child has no choice but to drink from it. Our nutritionist told us that they will do it when they get thirsty! We didn't go totally cold turkey. We kept the before bed bottle for a little while after, but later converted to a sippy cup for that too.

Good luck!
T.

We did cold turkey too, but did it in phases. First we got rid of the daytime ones and left the morning and evening bottles. Then we got rid of the evening bottle. The morning one was hardest for both of us (I liked the cuddle time) but it only took a month or two until she wanted to be a big girl and gave that one up herself.

My niece wouldn't take milk from a sippy - so maybe try water or juice first. SIL gave her milk in a bottle until she was 2.

1 year is a good goal, but there is no problem if you use a bottle longer.

Try a sippy cup that uses a soft straw. The one that worked for my son was the nuby brand.

I just went cold turkey with my son on bottles. He was 14 months (he's 15 months now). I got rid of the bottles so I wouldn't be tempted. It was rough for two nights, but then it was no problem. It did help to finally find a sippy cup he likes. He never liked to suck hard enough for most of them. I had to remove the valves, but then they were messy. He'd chew up the soft spout ones too. I finally found a Clifford cup at Wal-mart that he likes. (Some stores have them, some don't.) It has a round spout and apparently the valve is a little easier.

I moved my son off of his bottle and into a sippy cup when he was right around your sons age and after having watched my sister and other girlfriends struggle with breaking their children of their bottles I was worried just like you. My sister would allow her daughter to have her bottle during naps and at night when she put her to bed but then this almost made it worse for her daughter when it was time to take the bottle away completly. What I did, and what worked like a charm without all of the struggles I saw my sister and my girlfriends go through was to just take the bottle away completly. Cold Turkey. He went to bed one night and after he had fallen asleep I took his bottle out of his crib and packed up all of the bottles in the house and put them in the trunk of my car. I had purchased new sippy cups and had them washed and ready for my son. When he woke up the next day he was upset because he wanted a bottle and I would only give him his sippy cup, but after some wining and crying he got over it and drank from his sippy cup and we haven't looked back since. Naps and Bed Time were a bit of a struggle the first day or two but he learned very quickly that no amount of wining or crying was going to get him his bottle. It was the best thing I could have done and is the only option I would suggest to you. Otherwise your child will become even more reliant on their bottles when they get the limited use of them during naps or bedtime, which will make it even more difficult to get rid of them completly down the road. Good Luck, and I promise you that if you break the habit cold turkey this transition will be a lot less painful and he will move into the use of his new sippy cups quickly!