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LO 1 was around 12.5 months. The transition was pretty smooth.

Well, I'm a bad one to ask because my LO still gets a bed time bottle at 16 months.

Our pediatrician typically recommends transitioning away from all bottles at one year, and having them all phased out by 15 months at the latest, but in our case, she said she was okay with keeping bottles a little longer because when LO was 1 year, we were still dealing with some feeding issues (refusal to eat solids--a little delayed on learning how to use a straw cups).

I did phase out daytime bottles pretty immediately after she was 1, but we've kept the night time one this whole time and I know at some point, I need to bite the bullet and see what happens if I don't give the night time bottle. But I don't want to yet. She's still a crap sleeper and wakes up HUNGRY at 5 in the morning, so I'm afraid of an earlier wakeup without the milk (and she just doesn't drink much out of straw cups still).

We cut the bedtime bottle cold turkey at around 12.5-13 months. I was really worried but it went smoothly and was much easier than I imagined it would be. I think one of the concerns is cavities. If you're brushing your LO's teeth after the bottle then I would imagine this to be less of a concern. IMO the longer they get the bottle, the harder a habit it is to break, so that's why I just wanted to rip the band-aid off.

Cold turkey a couple days after her birthday. She didn't seem to notice.

@Bubbles: I scrub her teeth after her bottle with the little finger swiffies (or whatever they are called. I got them from my dentist). I'm not *too* worried about cavities, because LO has good genes in that area. Neither Dh nor I have ever had a cavity (hard teeth, I guess), and Lo has already been to the dentist and her teeth are totally fine so far.

started weaning bottles at 13 months and was down to just bed time bottle at 15 months. he started taking less and less before bed and we quit cold turkey just before 18m.

Around 9 months we were having trouble fitting everything in before bed time. We had switched up our routine so the bottle wasn't last before bed. So it was tough doing dinner early enough to get him to take a bottle, and yet not suck to sleep. We'd be scrambling for dinner, then scrambling to get the bottle into him, and if things went to late he'd be falling asleep with the bottle. With our ped's ok we just stopped giving it to him and did a sippy of milk or formula at dinner instead.

We moved to cups at about 10 months and moved the bedtime milk into a cup at about 12 months but E still gets a bottle if she wakes in the night because she needs the comfort. She's 16 months and I don't think its the end of the world.

We slowly weaned off the bottle during the day and by 15-16 months we were able to transition from a bottle at night to a sippy cup. So he still got his milk before bed, just in a cup and not a bottle. Didn't mess with our routine at all.

I am bad. We didn't stop until 18 months-ish. And my just-two-year-old still gets a bottle of milk when he wakes up. So bad!!! At night - we just switched it with water and it was fine, then we did nothing. He's not ok with dropping the morning one. We need to do it.

Hmmm, we kept the bottle before bed until she was like 20 months old. She just had the one bottle before bath time after dinner, not during the day anymore and one day we just stopped and she never asked for it again even though she really seemed to enjoy having the warm milk. I was surprised she wasn't attached to it! I was also told to stop but for dental reasons. I didn't stop though because I always brushed her teeth AFTER the bottle, so I didn't see what the big deal was. I don't think there's any rush but the one change I would recommend is to brush teeth after the bottle cuz I've heard some pretty scary stories about cavities in toddlers and I'm not too thrilled about holding her down at the dentist's office! At 22 mths though we are still nursing in the morning upon wake up, and sometimes not at all.

My 17 month old still gets a bedtime bottle.

@Bubbles: irrational fear is the perfect way to describe how I feel, too.

LO is 13 months now and he still gets a bottle first thing in the morning and about an hour before bed. He doesn't get one at all during the day or if he wakes up in the middle of the night. I'm hesitant to stop them because there's no way I can have breakfast ready for him when he first wakes up, I enjoy the snuggles, and that's where he gets the majority of his WcM from

@Bubbles: we stopped bottles at 12 months and switched to a sippy of milk at bedtime. My favorite are the munchkin straw ones. I find they don't really leak and are easy to clean. I have had a few break but they are over a year old.