https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 05 May 2026 00:06:32 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles/page/2#post-2623054 Sat, 17 Sep 2016 12:27:53 +0000 ShootingStar 2623054@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bluestriped bee: How are they doing with solids? Are they on 3 meals a day with 2 snacks? I had DS totally transitioned off of bottles by the end of 12 months. And I was the holdout on his last bottle - it was so much easier doing a bottle in the morning that he could hold himself, than it was to sit down and feed him a real breakfast.</p> <p>My big fear about bottles was that he'd get too attached to them. Anecdotally, it seems like people have a harder time if they wait til 15 or 18 months. DS never even noticed they were gone. In your situation I might start out with the formula in sippies at meals so they can still benefit from it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-2623049 Sat, 17 Sep 2016 10:56:43 +0000 MrsBrewer 2623049@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Weaned from nursing, and bottles at the babysitter at 13.5 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-2623039 Sat, 17 Sep 2016 10:13:55 +0000 Pumpkin Pie 2623039@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD was fully off bottles by 13 months. I just stopped sending them to daycare. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-2622989 Fri, 16 Sep 2016 22:04:43 +0000 peaches1038 2622989@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Timely post as I had been wondering the same thing. It seems so strange to just suddenly not give bottles anymore after preparing, giving and washing them for so long! There's definitely a security in offering bottles that I will miss! DS gets bottles at daycare and nurses when home so I think we will try to transition to cups full time by 12-13 months and keep a couple nursing sessions </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-2622984 Fri, 16 Sep 2016 21:40:58 +0000 youboots 2622984@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>T is 18 months and still taking 3 a day- I plan to wean her around 2. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-2622951 Fri, 16 Sep 2016 19:57:49 +0000 winniebee 2622951@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bluestriped bee: both of my kids were low birth weight and low percentile babies. We switched to whole milk at 12 months. See above! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-2622936 Fri, 16 Sep 2016 19:24:11 +0000 sunshineandsushi 2622936@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow, flashback! Haha. </p> <p>From what I recall now, weaning my LOs was not a huge ordeal. The daycare I switched them to at 1 year actually didn't allow bottles. So that sped up the transition quite a bit for us. I want to say within one month after they turned 1, they were done with bottles. The daycare let me bring in empty bottles just in case they really weren't drinking from the sippy cups. Being surrounded by other kids who all drank from sippy cups helped them catch on quickly. </p> <p>You know your LOs best. :happy: In my case, I felt comfortable with the calories they received from whole milk and solid food at that point. We went bottle-free and didn't look back! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-2622933 Fri, 16 Sep 2016 19:05:41 +0000 winniebee 2622933@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>answered this years ago for DS1</p> <p>Ds2 was nursed and got an occasional bottle. I weaned him at 13.5 months and he continued to wake overnight for a few weeks -- I offered a bottle during those wakings. I offered him the odd first thing in the morning bottle until 15m I think. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-2622928 Fri, 16 Sep 2016 18:34:37 +0000 maddyz 2622928@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Lo is 18 months and still gets two bottles a day. I think we are about to drop the am wake up bottle, but his night time one might stick around for a while. He has a hard time allowing down at the end of the day and sucking really helps. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-2622903 Fri, 16 Sep 2016 17:32:07 +0000 BSB 2622903@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@keiki_mama: @sunshineandsushi: </p> <p>I'm bumping a super old thread but my twins are 12 months, but I'm hesitant in weaning the bottle. They were preemies (34 weekers), they are smaller (under 10th percentile) and they are on high calorie formula (Dr said we could start switching to whole milk soon. Maybe it's denial, but I'm hesitant in dropping their bottle. I actually don't mind washing their Dr. Brown bottles. </p> <p>Maybe someone can tell me otherwise but I feel like they get so much of their calories from formula and weaning from the bottle makes me think they won't drink as much. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-1182290 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:07:33 +0000 purrpletulips 1182290@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is almost 14m and we need to work on this. He does great using a sippy/straw cup with water but as soon as we put milk in it (either cows or breast) he takes one drink makes a face and won't take another drink. My plan is to "force the issue" and stop giving bottles at all once he weans from breastfeeding which we are currently working on. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-1182245 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 13:48:39 +0000 sunshineandsushi 1182245@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@keiki_mama: We use Dr. Brown's too. Cannot WAIT to be done with washing all those parts! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-1181934 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 12:21:44 +0000 keiki_mama 1181934@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Around 14 months... we did it cold turkey and it was so liberating! Down with Dr. Brown and the millions of parts to those darn bottles. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-1181889 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 12:01:40 +0000 kodybear 1181889@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sunshineandsushi: nope i didn't drop the feeding. i dropped the mid morning bottle first. instead of giving her a bottle, i gave her the straw cup and a snack. then i'd give her the rest in the bottle. i did this for a couple weeks and once she started drinking 2-4oz from the straw cup, i dropped the bottle. i did this for the mid afternoon bottle as well. for mealtimes i just let her have as much milk from the cup as she wanted. they do drink less from the straw cup than the bottle so if you're worried about weight gain i wouldn't drop just yet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-1181350 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 09:27:25 +0000 sumer08 1181350@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>12 months. We were very fortunate that LO didn't miss his bottles at all, and we were able to wean completely off bottles within 1-1.5 weeks. We weaned daytime bottles first, followed by his nighttime bottle. It is so freeing not to have to wash bottles anymore! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-1181333 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 09:24:19 +0000 cascademom 1181333@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>About 11-12 months old. We were a little late in switching from bottles to sippy cups. We got a little heat because I was giving him formula in his bottle with a sippy lid. It was causing too much confusion, so we stopped it. I switched over to Oxo sippy cups then. I wash about 4 sippy cups a day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-1181316 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 09:18:28 +0000 BananaPancakes 1181316@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We dropped the 2 daytime bottles right at 12 months, and those were no big deal. But we just dropped the bedtime bottle at 17 months. I should have done it earlier, but he really loved that bottle and I wasn't in a huge hurry. But it's so nice not having to deal with bottles these days!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-1181285 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 09:09:33 +0000 mrsjyw 1181285@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>he does well with straw cup, reg cup, or a bottle, but we're cutting out the bottles 100% this month. He's just past 11 months! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-1181281 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 09:07:56 +0000 autumnlove 1181281@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>12 months for day bottles and 13 for night! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-1181260 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 09:02:52 +0000 stargal 1181260@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>around 13-14 months he was completly off them! it went alot easier then i expected, i was terrified bc he LOVED his bottle. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-1181218 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 08:51:52 +0000 2PeasinaPod 1181218@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@locavore_mama: That's a good idea! I didn't think about that! I haven't tried a straw cup again in a while (he wasn't a fan when I first tried to introduce) so maybe I'll try that again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-1181208 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 08:49:32 +0000 winniebee 1181208@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At 12 months he was getting 4 bottles a day (wake up, nap 1, nap 2, bed). It took awhile to transition to cows milk because of his dairy intolerance but we got there at 13.5 months. I got rid of the wake up bottle at 13 months. Justs gave him straw cup when he woke which he was already pretty good at it with water. The he got rid of his first nap so was just getting a bottle before his second nap at 14 months. Then we got rid of the nap bottle at 14.5 months (instead he just got a big lunch and straw cup of milk). It took awhile for him yo adjist to this one (took a long time for him to fall asleep for nap). At 17 months he still gets a small bottle before bed and we are going to wean that by 18 months. We were going to do it a few weeks ago buy he got pretty sick and lost some weight so we are waiting another week or so. </p> <p>So it's taken us a while but he's really been pretty flexible with the changes. I just think its important to have no bottles as you approach age 2. Just gets harder the longer u wait! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-1181201 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 08:47:57 +0000 regberadaisy 1181201@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@2PeasinaPod: I think same babies associate milk to bottles and water to sippy. What about buying a different cup for milk to break the association of milk is only in bottles? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-1181194 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 08:46:28 +0000 2PeasinaPod 1181194@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Anyone have any tips for how to get them to take the milk from the sippy? LO will take milk from his 2 remaining bottles, but the second he realizes that it's milk in the sippy and not water, he wants nothing to do with it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-1181182 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 08:43:32 +0000 regberadaisy 1181182@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Some time around 13 months. It only took a week or so. When i sterilized the bottles for the last time for storage it was the most amazing feeling!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-1181173 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 08:42:20 +0000 LuLu Mom 1181173@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are almost 13 month and starting the process (actually today was the first day of full time sippy cup....she is not thrilled.) But we tried the gradual weaning it did not work so now we are trying cold turkey. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-1181171 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 08:42:03 +0000 LuLu Mom 1181171@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are almost 13 month and starting the process (actually today was the first day of sippy cup....she is not thrilled.) But we tried the gradual weaning it did not work so now we are trying cold turkey. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-1181071 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 08:22:49 +0000 Mrsbells 1181071@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>at 12 months. in the weeks leading up to her birthdya we gradually cut out one bottle a day until she had none left and replaced it with a snack or sippy cup </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-1180973 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:58:54 +0000 NovBaby1112 1180973@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm curious about this as well. LO went on a nursing strike at 10.5 months so has been having bottles ever since. She seems to like the sippy okay, but not as much as the bottles, and she doesn't drink as much from the sippy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-lo-wean-off-bottles#post-1180956 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:54:25 +0000 lavender 1180956@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started around 12 months and completely weaned at 14 months. </p>