https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 18 May 2026 08:14:29 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1603187 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:55:43 +0000 swurlygurl 1603187@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pepper: Yes :) We use all the different cups. She liked playing with the straw cup the most at first, but wouldn't actually drink from it - just suck for a sip and smile at me, more as a game. She took to the kind that are a lot like bottles first (plastic mouthpiece that you have to bite/suck to get liquid out, super popular). Only just recently has she been able to use the hard top ones that you truly have to suck. She only gets an open cup if she's sitting in my lap and I hold and tip the cup. Maybe I'll give her some open cups this summer outside to play with... But after getting used to all the cups, her favorites now are the straw cups. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1603181 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:53:33 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1603181@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pepper: properly? Maybe 15-16 months? She was so into real food (not purées) that she'd shovel anything we gave her into her mouth. It was like motivation for her! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1603168 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:49:55 +0000 Pepper 1603168@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jump Rope: If I let him have a spoon, he'd sit there and chew on it the whole time, haha! When did she start actually using it? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1603164 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:49:16 +0000 Pepper 1603164@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lion: I think it would make a great blog post! Just what worked for you. Good to know we don't have to give up the bottles right at 12 months. He loves his bottle! He loves those steamfresh veggies too :)</p> <p>@swurlygurl: Do you use sippy/straw cups or regular cups? He won't take a sippy, loves straw cups, isn't coordinated enough for an open cup unless I'm holding it.</p> <p>@blackbird: Yeah, C doesn't care for pouches that much anymore, either (unless it's applesauce in a pouch... then he's all over it).</p> <p>@Smurfette: This is a good idea... replacing the bottle with a book! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1602969 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:02:42 +0000 mrsjyw 1602969@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Alivoo01: yea... we started him with a sippy cup of water when we really got into solids, but he wasn't having it... I switched to a straw cup and we started giving water that way. it wasn't until 11 months that we started swapping out bottles to straw cup for milk... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1602968 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:02:20 +0000 Mrs. Lion 1602968@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Alivoo01: ugh my lo too. He will noooot use a straw cup. He uses the straw as a tool to fling the cup across the room. Duble fail. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1602921 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:49:53 +0000 Alivoo01 1602921@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjyw: Did A take to straw cups immediately? I've introduced a straw cup to C and he mainly likes to chew on the straw then actually drink from it. He does try initially, but doesn't suck hard enough to get anything out of it so he ends up just chewing on the straw instead. Fail. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1602917 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:49:13 +0000 Mrs. Lion 1602917@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>These are the ones we use. <a href="http://www.buybuybaby.com/store/product/booginhead-reg-reusable-food-pouch/1041433690" rel="nofollow">http://www.buybuybaby.com/store/product/booginhead-reg-reusable-food-pouch/1041433690</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1602914 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:47:58 +0000 Smurfette 1602914@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lion: oh yeah she throws those on the floor. If I try and sneak them in, she spits them out. Stinker ate peas at day care yesterday, dipping in yogurt. So I guess I need to try something like that.<br /> @blackbird: I have tried that, so fast red pasta sauce is the only thing that works. But that seems to irritate her bum when she poops so we have stopped doing it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1602913 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:47:47 +0000 Mrs. Lion 1602913@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I use a bottle brush and really really hot water. I left one in the car overnight once though and i just threw it away rather than try to wash it. The ones i got have a zipper top. They can also go in the dishwasher (i try to run them through every so often). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1602908 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:45:48 +0000 blackbird 1602908@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@smurfette, i have to sneak them into her food! She'll do diced carrots and peas so far, broccoli bites....spinach mixed in w/ eggs. I just keep offering over and over and over and eventually she realizes it's good haha! </p> <p>@mrs. lion, i looked at those but didn't think i could keep them clean enough </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1602907 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:45:48 +0000 Mrs. Lion 1602907@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: my lo really likes peas corn and carrots (i buy the frozen mixed vegetables). They are the perfect size :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1602901 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:44:09 +0000 Mrs. Lion 1602901@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: oh that makes sense! We never used any of those. I actually got some reusable ones....we can fill them with whatever we want and there is much less waste because i only put a couple spoonfulls in at a time :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1602894 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:41:40 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1602894@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pepper: we had some minor struggles. Once Chloe had a taste for whole milk, formula was just icky. BUT she was attached to her bottle (it was a lovey!) and *that* was a horrible transition. </p> <p>I think it was around 9 months when our ped suggested the family dinner, as in we all eat together at the same time and have the same foods. Chloe was eating table food at that time, and we still had to help her. We'd let her go wild with a spoon and mashed potatoes, or a cup of applesauce. And yes, she's 2.5 and still loves squeezies. They're great for a quick snack on the go.</p> <p>I feel like it just kind of happened. We offered milk at each meal, and snacks in between. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1602893 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:41:27 +0000 Smurfette 1602893@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: I can't stop pouches, how else is R going to eat veggies? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1602891 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:40:48 +0000 Smurfette 1602891@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bookish: @Pepper: We started at 10/10.5 months giving a bottle and then brushing teeth, books, and then bed. So it was right before bed ( I was afraid if she didn't eat right before bed she wouldn't STTN) but there was a separation. No more bottle, while rocking, reading, and snuggled up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1602886 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:39:51 +0000 blackbird 1602886@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. lion, she was only eating like half a one and then wasting them and just naturally became more interested in what we were eating. She still does applesauce and banana-apple pouches, but i meant like, the chicken/veggies pouches. She's just not into them anymore. I won't even do the yogurt pouches because they go to waste. Again, she eats half of it and then wants something she can chew on. She wasn't really eating them at daycare so no point in keeping them around </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1602872 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:37:53 +0000 Mrs. Lion 1602872@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: ooh why did you stop the pouches? Lo eats tons of different foods, but we love pouches of applesauce or yogurt for on the go snacks.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1602861 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:35:25 +0000 blackbird 1602861@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>at 12 months, we moved her to milk in a bottle. then at her 12 month appt, the ped said she likes babies to be off bottles at 15 months and the longer you let it go, the harder it is. So we transitioned to zoli straw cups within two weeks of her appt. We packed the bottles away and it's been out of sight and out of mind. And that's been that! She stopped eating pouches about a week ago and is more interested in food. So she seems to have picked up on that food is what she's going to get</p> <p>She throws a lot of it. Oh well. I just pick it up and give it back to her. She eats until she's hungry and she figures it out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1602839 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:28:58 +0000 Boheme 1602839@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thank you for posting this! I'm totally freaked out about it </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1602807 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:21:09 +0000 Mrs. Lion 1602807@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@swurlygurl: they like to throw curveballs like that...i have no doubt ;) if i have learned anything about parenting, it is that i know nothing. Haha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1602769 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:13:20 +0000 swurlygurl 1602769@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lion: Hah, it's amazing how much I psyched myself up for it. With my luck I'll be totally nonplussed about it for #2 and she'll end up being a terror about it :wink: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1602766 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:12:13 +0000 swurlygurl 1602766@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pepper: We give milk at nap and milk for bed. The rest of the day we just offer water in cups. That's actually how we introduced cups at first, by starting with daytime water. Like @Mrs. Lion: it was closer to 14 months that I finally packed up the bottles. I would say only in the last month or so has she really taken to water. I just made sure she was eating water-dense foods too, since her liquid intake was pretty slim for a month or so. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1602715 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:02:22 +0000 Mrs. Lion 1602715@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@swurlygurl: this was our experience too. I was terrified but it just....worked. I have been wanting to write a blog post about it but i dont know what to say. We kept offering, he kept eating. I offered as much milk as he wanted at first, but now that he is completely using cups he only drinks 10-15 ounces. It was truly surprising, but it all worked out just fine!</p> <p>I waited to phase put the bedtime bottle until after i was pretty sure he no longer needed it, about a week ago (lo is almost 14 months). We left all other parts of the routine the same and didnt have any issues at all giving it up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1602701 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:58:20 +0000 Pepper 1602701@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Great advice everyone, thanks! </p> <p>@mrsjyw: I don't know! Ahhh!</p> <p>@swurlygurl: Glad it was so easy for you! He is pretty easy going right now, so hopefully it will be easy for us, too. </p> <p>@Bookish: Same! Do you just give a sippy of milk before bed? Water? Bottle at bedtime is a solid part of his routine right now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1602459 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:13:35 +0000 Bookish 1602459@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pepper: Thank you for posting, this is really confusing/freaking me out as well! </p> <p>I can't figure out how to switch from the big morning/nighttime bottles she has to WCM. I mean, it's how we get her to sleep :meh: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1602453 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:12:40 +0000 QBbride 1602453@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs Green Grass: agreed! That's how I felt about beginning solids and now it's totally fine! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1602441 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:09:51 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 1602441@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If you are a le to go straight to sippy, do it...it's harder the longer you wait in my experience. I've found every step super scary beforehand, but then just kind nf normal once you get there... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1602435 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:08:22 +0000 swurlygurl 1602435@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was SO scared of this - transitioning off of formula and having to feed a kid on food alone... so scary!!</p> <p>But really, it was great. </p> <p>As soon as her formula ran out I went straight to WCM, no half and half nonsense. She did great. She still did bottles, and we slowly worked on weaning to cups. I wasn't too worried about that part - her Ped said as long as she's on cups by 15 months. 3 months to work on that part wasn't scary.</p> <p>I was scared about food, because she was drinking 40+ oz of formula a day, and eating 3+ meals. Now I'm supposed to limit her to 16 oz of WCM and a ton more food??!! I don't know how, but it just worked. She had already slowly started eating more at meals by 12 months, so we kept offering her more and more, and giving her healthy snacks throughout the day. I can't even believe she's been off formula for only 3 months now, seems like SO much longer!</p> <p>Luckily, she was so easy-going at that age that the transition was seamless. She just accepted my lead. Now, at 15 months though, there is no way I could try to change that all up - she would fight me with everything she had. Glad we got that out of the way already! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-feeding-after-12-months#post-1602426 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:07:09 +0000 Smurfette 1602426@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>R was on 4 bottles of formula and 3 meals a day at 10 months. At 11 months we started offering milk with meals (small amount, so she would get used to it). Around 11.5 months she dropped her day time bottles. So I started sending a snack to day care for when she normally had a bottle. She was so so on her night bottles. Then started only drinking 2, maybe 3 ozs in the AM, or not drinking them. Then 2 days after her birthday, we went cold turkey on her bottles. Just offered her breakfast when she first woke up and we have had no issues since. She just drinks from a sippy or straw cup.</p> <p>There were a couple weeks were we gave Pedialyte at night cause she just wasn't drinking much at all. But now she drinks a ton. We offer milk with meals and water the rest of the day. She gets 3 meals and 2 snacks a day. Her meals are a little bigger, but not much. </p>