https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 01 May 2026 04:17:48 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-off-bottles-when-amd-how#post-1537188 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 14:05:21 +0000 Cherrybee 1537188@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Good good, as long as its too early that's fine with me! Thanks all! :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-off-bottles-when-amd-how#post-1537123 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:53:25 +0000 Smurfette 1537123@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wouldn't even worry about it yet. At 11 months, we started offering WCM with meals so she would get use to it. She then dropped her afternoon bottles, no interest in them at all. Then after she turned 1 we cold turkey dropped her morning and night bottle (most nights she didn't drink all of her night one anyway) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-off-bottles-when-amd-how#post-1537085 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:45:30 +0000 loveisstrange 1537085@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She's 8 months old. I really wouldn't worry about this yet. We didn't even begin weaning her onto milk until she was 11 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-off-bottles-when-amd-how#post-1537074 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:42:59 +0000 Adira 1537074@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Xander had BM in a bottle, but we didn't try to wean him until he turned one. Then we just removed one bottle a week and replaced it with the same amount of BM in a sippy until he was completely off bottles. It took him a couple weeks to adjust and ended up not drinking as much for a few weeks, but after a couple weeks, he's back to drinking a decent amount, solely from sippies!</p> <p>Hopefully @Smurfette will chime in because I know at some point, she switched her daughter to having 3-4 bottles a day before she weaned off bottles. I'm not sure what age she did that or how much in each bottle though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-off-bottles-when-amd-how#post-1537069 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:42:00 +0000 illumina 1537069@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>S has dropped down to 3x 8oz bottles per day now that we are doing 2 full meals. Are you doing solids before milk or after? That made a huge difference for us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-off-bottles-when-amd-how#post-1537053 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:39:39 +0000 Pumuckl 1537053@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd take it slowly, who cares whether she still has a bottle or two at 13/14 months... Just go with your gut and if that tells you that she's not ready, she probably isn't. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-off-bottles-when-amd-how#post-1537033 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:34:40 +0000 blackbird 1537033@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>E's still on two bottles a day. She wouldn't touch a sippy cup at 8 months. It was only about a month...maybe two months ago...that she was interested in other cups </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-off-bottles-when-amd-how#post-1536968 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:18:46 +0000 Cherrybee 1536968@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is 8 months old now and still has 5 bottles a day in addition to her solids: </p> <p>Breakfast - Porridge &amp; 240ml formula</p> <p>Morning snack - Solids plus 240ml formula </p> <p>Lunch - Solids plus 240ml formula</p> <p>Dinner - Solids plus 240ml formula </p> <p>Bedtime - 240ml formula</p> <p>She also has sips of water with her meals. </p> <p>She rarely drinks the whole 240ml formula but sometimes she does. She doesnt always eat much in the way of solids, either (but maybe she would without the milk?). </p> <p>Anyway, I seem to recall my BFF weaning her baby off his last bottle when he turned one. That's only 4 months away and we're still on 5 milk feeds.....! Is that normal?! </p> <p>When should I start replacing her bottles with formula in sippy cups? She will currently take sips (assisted) but we can't get more than 50ml down her that way. Or should I be systematically removing milk feeds at this point? If not, when? Gah, I'm so confused! </p>