Weaning from Bottles - Fort Stewart,GA

Our son is a bit of a glutton. We had him drinking from a sippy at 9ish months. At 11 months, he started refusing to drink anything out of a bottle. I guess it was easier to get the volume he wanted from a sippy. It took us about a week to figure out that he was done with bottles. Couldn't even convince him to take a bottle at the night feed. He was completely done with bottles by 1 years old. we passed on all of our bottles to a cousin 1 week later and have never looked back.

I don't know if you have any of the old newborn nipples around, if so, maybe you can start using those on the bottles again, and that way your son might opt for the sippy rather than struggle to get formula/ milk out of the bottle.

Children are very adaptable. I know we were lucky with our DS and his self weaning, but I think that you can do either a slow wean, or go cold turkey, whatever works best for you and hubs, and your son will catch on soon enough.

when my son turned 1, it was the week before his birthday that i stopped the bottle "cold turkey". We went from bottles one night to sippy cups the next morning. he had his milk in a cup and asked for boppy but i said the little baby down the road needed it. Good Luck!!

I didn't do it completely at age one.
My reason: he did not suck his thumb or have a pacifier.
These were his coping tools for dealing w/the day & all of it's issues.
I slowly started to wean it by giving him sippy cups of water, sippy cup
of watered down apple juice throughout the day.
He pretty much stuck to & needed a couple of bottles of milk throughout
the day: 1st thing in morning, before nap time & definitely before bedtime
People will probably say not to do it this way or I'm doing it wrong but I am
doing what I know to be best for my baby
You will know too when the time is ready.
Try scaling back (putting the milk in a sippy cup etc) and you will
eventually get there .
He's still little and needs the comfort.
So all in due time.
No 6 year old goes to school w/a bottle of milk.
It will work itself out. Don't stress about the exact timeline.

With our first DD, we went cold turket at 15 months. It was a rough 2 or 3 days but then she was fine. 2nd child was breastfed so I didn't have to deal with it with her.

My daughter shunned the bottle soon after she turned 1. I am not sure how her daycare managed it; I would send her to daycare with 1 sippy cup. To be honest, I was not quite ready to switch to sippy cups--still had a lot of bottle supplies that I was planning to use.

If your son is already using the sippy cup for water then its not a matter of training him to take a sippy--It's that he prefers the bottle. It may be that his comfort item is his bottle... you can try to introduce a different comfort item. My daughter loves her soft satin blankets. Those, and her pacifier, are her comfort item instead of the bottle.

We had a lot of success with the 5oz Nuk sippy cups (most often stores are carrying the Winnie the Pooh, yellow & orange one). In fact, she refused any other sippy cup. Only wanted the Nuk one--and I did try other brands.

I prepare six 5 oz sippy cups of milk for my daughter. She gets one first thing in the morning (6 oz) while I'm changing her. 5 oz at daycare around 9:30. (she is offered a sippy of water at lunch) 5oz around 2:00. 5oz round 4:30 or 5pm. 5 oz around 6:30 (sometimes; often this one is not needed) and one before bed (6 oz).

I was surprised the 5 & 6 oz amounts worked because she was rowing 8 oz bottles before. But, she is eating well so it makes sense that her milk intake would decrease. She started with 30-32 oz of milk per day in the sippy cups; then 25-30oz (when the 6pm cup became unnecessary). In a month, she'll move into a new room which won't give her sippy cups as often. So, she'll probably go down to 20-25 oz, then the first thing in the morning one will be replaced with breakfast, so it will be around 18-22oz. 6 or 7 months from now, she'll probably be consuming the recommended 16 oz per day.

My daughter drank milk from a bottle at naptime and at bedtime until she was 3. The rest of the time she drank from a regular cup, not a sippy cup.

Before she turned three, she and I talked about how 3 year-olds don't need to drink from bottles anymore, she agreed, and it went away. No fuss, no crying.

Babies need to be able to suck. There is no magic age that means bottles need to stop being used. As long as kids aren't allowed to carry them around all day or sleep with them (and sippy cups are just as bad used like this), there is no harm to teeth. My daughter, now 9, has perfectly straight and healthy teeth.