Babies Turning One, How Do You Break the Habits?

I started giving milk in a sippy at one, too. Both my kids loved milk. I began by taking away the least important bottle and replacing it with a sippy of milk. I think it was the bottle with breakfast(rice or some other cereal). After a week or so of that, I replaced another bottle and continued until only the night bottle remained. Both my children transitioned easily. Now the night bottle was a different story. I never pushed them to give it up. My oldest let us give him a sippy with milk at night around 2, but my youngest will not go for it and he's 3. I really see no difference in drinking milk at night from a bottle or sippy. It's really about the same thing to me. I know my little one won't be having a bottle when he's in high school so I'm not concerned about it at all. He can have his nightly bottle until he's 12 if he wants to. Just my opinion. Good luck!

We did sippy cup introduction starting at 6 months and then cows milk in a sippy cold turkey at 11 1/2 months. He got rid of the paci on his own at 6 months so that wasnt an issue for us. My oldest had a paci in his bed until he was 16 months so for us that came after the milk and cup transition.

You need to slowly transition the baby to regular milk. It can cause so much gas and discomfort and really, REALLY, stinky pooh, the kind that you can smell a block away and gag.

Start with 2 oz. milk to 6 oz. formula. if that goes well, no night time crying with gas, no diarrhea, puking, etc...then you can go half and half for another week or so then to 6 oz reg. milk to 2 oz. formula, again for a few days at least then on to all regular Vit. D milk.

If you don't want to do all at the same time then just don't. Docs are not the mom, you are and you can decide what to give up and what to keep a bit longer. Take your time and do it how you want.

That's good you are almost pacifier free but that seems like the last priority as long as it's only for sleep. At one my dau was on 4 bottles and every Fri I dropped one. Has she been practicing with sippy? The bedtime bottle is the hardest but she might be more laid back that you think! Good luck and one at a time :)

Dr. Sears answers all of this for you, from transitioning to regular milk and to sippy cups, so glad I found his site!

http://www.askdrsears.com/html/3/T030100.asp

http://www.askdrsears.com/html/0/T000100.asp

My son just turned 1 last month. He takes changes well. He was already drinking some from a sippy cup. But the way we did it was one weekend we just stared cows milk and at day care they were already working on getting him off of the bottle so it made it easier since we both were working on it. So now he does not even take a bottle. He will take his sippy cup of cows milk while he eates his supper or even will drink it before bed. But as for the pacifier he only takes it at bedtime really. But we have not started trying to take it from him yet.

I honestly just went by their cues. My son was through with his binky by the time he was a year, but he preferred the bottle up to 2 years old. But, my daughter on the other hand is 16 months old now and still needs the binky, still wants to nurse and would rather have the sippy cup than a bottle. Go figure??? I don't necessarily believe that you HAVE to change their behavior unless they are headed to school still wanting a binky! As for the milk, at one is the best time to introduce it as her gut is no longer "leaky". The large gaps in the intestinal lining have now closed up and the large molecule proteins from the cow's milk can no longer pass into the bloodstream causing a severe allergic reaction or worse juvenile diabetes (the protein found in cows milk mimics the pacreatic cells, so the body starts not only attacking the casien from the milk, but also the pancreas. That's why it's now classified as an autoimmune disease). But, I also recommend raw milk as pastuerized, homogenized milk is dead and nothing but a white substance void of all the nutrition that whole, raw milk provides. You can get yours at Lucky Layla farms in Plano. But, out in Priceton, you may also find a dairy closer to you that provides raw cows milk. But, this is the only one I know of and its wonderful!