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I dropped one bottle a week and just replaced it with a sippy. I decided to drop bottles before I dropped the breastmilk he was getting, so he was still getting BM in his sippy - same amount at the same times, just a sippy instead of a bottle. Once he was fully bottle weaned, I started the transition off of BM by mixing.

During the transition of dropping bottles, he DID drink less milk, but after 2-3 weeks of just getting sippies, he went back to drinking more again. And it didn't seem to affect his overnight sleep - he probably made up for it with solids.

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She snacks replaced the day bottles. Then we gave bigger breakfast and dinner. But towards the end, she wasn't into her night bottles. She would only drink 2-4ozs anyway.

Cold turkey, we tried to do gradual, but she then would hold out until after nap/before bed knowing she got a bottle. 3-4 rough days and she was over it. She loved cold milk and the sippy so that helped. She would cry more before bed for a baba, but eventually just gave it up and slept great.

We switched cold turkey. She has access to as much water in a sippy as she wants, we offer milk in a sippy at meals, and I do nurse at bedtime and wakeup (with the occasional overnight nursing session). She still doesn't like milk out of the sippy cup, but she's been drinking water out of it since she was about nine months old.

Cold turkey on the bottles and gradually transitioned from formula to whole milk. He was down to about 3 bottles a day, 3 meals a day, and no night wakings for food. He had been getting a sippy of water for months.

I did 1/4 milk and 3/4 formula, then half and half, and finally 3/4 milk and 1/4 formula. He did greatly reduce the amount he drank for about a week. I didn't worry because he ate yogurt and cheese so I figured he was fine. After a couple of weeks, his drinking went back to normal. He never woke up to eat at night.