Help - How Do I Wean My 1 Year Old from a Bottle!

Yes, start giving her whole milk a few times a day instead of formula. Put the milk in a sippy cup only, NOT in the bottles. Only formula goes in bottles. Even if she isn't taking the milk, still offer it instead of the formula. She knows how to drink out of a cup so she just needs to deal with the fact that she isn't getting the bottle as often. In a few days, offer milk a few times a day in the cup and drop out a bottle feeding. A few days later add more milk while dropping a bottle.

For most kids this age, the bottle is a habit not a need and if you just stop giving her the bottle she will get over the fact and move on to bigger and better things. If you must give her a bottle, put water in it. Don't make it worth her time to have.

Good luck and stay strong!

S.

Only put water in her bottle. It is okay for her to be on formula but you might consider switching her to one that is formulated for toddlers, but only put it in her sippy cup. Once she is taking the sippy cup good then you could start to gradually increase the amount of whole milk and decrease the amount of formula in the cup until it is all milk. When you only put water in her bottle, she will likely get tired of it unless it is a security item then you will have to replace the bottle with another "lovey" either a stuffed animal or blanket. Hope this helps.

My son who is now 2 and a half had a couple bottles a couple sippy cups and then a bedtime bottle until 18-20 months and he was fine! If she's not ready...don't feel the need to pressure her to use a sippy cup exclusively. Society tells us we have to have them off the bottle by 12 months...but i didn't and my son is fine now! When my son was ready, about 20 months we threw the bottle out the car window (of course i picked it up later...so no littering) and said bye-bye. He was fine with it and he is fine now! There is no way he was ready at 12 months and I wasn't ready to let my "baby" go either! My daughter is 8 months old now and if she wants to keep the bottle after 12 months, I'm going to let her! Do what feels best for both of you!! Good luck whatever your decision!

With my 1st son we switched him from bottles to sippy cups cold turkey and he was fine. He had already gotten used to drinking whole milk, as I had been adding it to his formula, while decreasing the amt of formula to milk content.

With BB #2 he is much more attached to the sucking motion of his bottle (maybe because he was breast fed for a few weeks, compared to BB #1 who had no BF experience.) I am giving him his bottles at naps and bedtime, but he really likes to hold his sippy. It took some trial and error with different types of sippy cups. The one that I find he does the best with are the Take and Toss ones, as he doesn't have to put forth a whole lot of sucking effort for the milk to come out, but it also doesn't flood into his mouth like a valve-less cup. (My son also can drink water or juice from any sippy, but for milk he'll only use the Take & Toss.)

If she is 1 year old she needs to be on whole milk, not formula anymore. My oldest wouldn't give up his bottle for anything... I started giving it to him less and less and it became just a bedtime/naptime thing. Then a few months before he was 2 years old I just got rid of it... He cried for it and wanted it, but I told him it was gone and that we didn't have it anymore. The first couple nights were tough, but he got over it. My 2nd child was between 1 yr and 18 months and I did the same with him... Going to do it again with my daughter when she reaches that age.
You are just going to have to deal with the crying and whining and cut it back to bedtimes only or make it so she can have 1/2 when she wakes up in the morning, and then a 1/2 before naps and bedtime. cut it down so she only has a bottle maybe 3 times a day. It will become normal for her and she won't ask for it as much... Then 1 day you will just have to take it and not let her have it no matter how much she cries. I know it sounds mean, but you don't want her to be 3-4 and still have a bottle in her mouth.

Are you planning to let her still have formula in a cup? Weaning at just a year old is ok, but you don't want to compromise her nutrition. Since she's small already, this should be done with the help of your pediatrician, to make sure she's physically mature enough to have less formula.
Although she may be getting enough nutrition with food, babies this age still need to be able to drink formula/milk on a regular basis. If she's a "grazer" (a very healthy way to eat, btw), there's even more reason to be very careful with her nutritional intake, as she won't be "filling up", and may have some trouble with low blood sugar.

If you're determined to take away the bottle, start with replacing just one per day, and GRADUALLY wean her to just one (usually the one before bed is the last to go). With older kids, you can take them away all at once, or faster, but at this age, you want to carefully watch her weight and general health as you do this.
It may be that she needs the comfort of the bottle- common- so you'll be battling that, but lots of extra cuddles and attention can help with that. Maybe replace the bottle time with storytime, or even a new stuffed toy to hug.
Good luck!

You can now switch her to whole milk ,if she loves formula so much she may not take to whole milk straight away , so I would suggest mixing the 2 together , using mostly formula to begin with then gradually decrease the formula and increase the amount of whole milk , once you have achieved that goal then move on to the next , which if it were me would be introducing more foods and giving less milk. I don't think you should attempt all 3 at the same time , she is too young to accept all those changes at once and you will have a battle on your hands.

I know doctors say to have them off of a bottle by 12 months , but personally I do not see the problem if they are a little older , it's more of a comfort thing than anything else , my kids didn't stop having "bedtime" milk in a bottle until around 18-20 months and they are fine and their teeth are fine. You know she can drink from a sippy , she just enjoys her milk from the bottle , I say relax on that one and wait until she is a little older.