How old was your baby when you weaned them from a bottle? And how did you do it? Thanks!
Mine went straight to a REAL cup at nine months when I introduces water to him. No sippy. Just got out a little cup that was his grandfather's. It is about three ounces. I helped him hold it until he got the idea. He was doing it by himself completely by about 11 months.
My son (2.5) weaned himself at the age of 9 months as soon as he started walking and was too busy to sit still for the bottle. But also sleeping through the night. Different story with my daughter (13 months)...not walking and NOT sleeping through the night. See below!
Sorry, this is a question on top of this. What did you do if your child is not sleeping through the night and was older than 1 year. Not interested in tips to get her to sleep through the night, she shares a room with her brother, and it is just easier in the long run for now. Currently we give a bottle before bed and during the night and milk all the other time in a sippy. Thoughts? Keep giving formula until she stops that middle of the night bottle? Switch to milk but warm it a bit? But if we do that I am afraid that she will like warm milk and NOT want cold milk right from the fridge? Thanks moms!
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I took the bottle and formula away at 12 months. Just took it away. He didn't know the difference. He was eating solid foods great, so he didn't need any nutrition from formula
I stared with a sippy cup at 11 months to let him get used to it, and had him off the bottle at a little over one year. (about 13 months or so)
I started a sippy cup around 6mos when we introduced solids. Both my children were breast fed (but also drank from the bottle). At one year, I stopped the true feedings with my son, but breast fed before bed until 14 months. My milk dried up a little sooner with my daughter, so when we stopped at 1 year, I was worried she still needed more fluid, so I bottle fed her whole milk at bed until around 14 months (she'd never had formula and wouldn't take it). Both gave up the bottle with no problem and because they were familiar with the sippy cup, it was an easy transition.
I don't know how old you child is now, but you will notice that as your child ages between 9-12 months, most kids want a bottle less and more table food. I slowly dropped bottles (or I didn't increase the quanity in the,, but offered more table food) as my children aged. We were at about 2-3 bottles a day at 11-12 months, so losing the afternoon bottle was easy. Then after a few weeks, I dropped the morning bottle and we only had the nighttime feeding. I kept that the longest and then dropped it, too.
Everyone has different feelings about this, but I feel like bottles are for food, not beverages, so when we stopped eating liquid meals then bottles went away.
Good luck!!
my oldest was off the bottle and using a regular cup by 11 months. I just gave him milk in the cup one night and he drank it fine, made a mess obviously but he went cold turkey. it will be the same with our 9 month old twins. we have to do it at this age though because all of them were born with bilateral cleft lip and palate and they have their palate repair surgeries at 1 year old. after their surgery they cant have anything that can damage their palate, so no bottle, no sippy no binky, NOTHING. they were all done with the binky by 3 months old before they had their lip repair surgeries though so that was awesome and they did great with that. I would just start giving your child a regular cup and see how it goes. Our oldest wouldnt actually drink from a sippy until about 6 months ago, he just drank from the same kind of cups we do. he still does but will take the sippy from time to time.
I was offering a sippy of water a few months before this so he was used to drinking from them. I started putting the breast milk in the sippy as well and he had no issue so we just got rid of the bottles at 10 months.
soft spouted sippy cups!!!!!! My 9 month old already loves his cup, and while we still do formula in a bottle he gets water with his meals and always in a cup. I've weaned all my older kids at a year. Starting with the bottles that didn't come right before a nap or bedtime, so say they would get a bottle when they woke up (maybe) before nap and before bed. Then we eliminated the nap and then bedtime. Never took more than a couple of weeks for me, but I also start my kids with a cup at 6 months so they can play around and figure it out on their own.
