LO is 12 months. At his 1yr well visit I asked and his doc said to start eliminating it in early summer (may?) and just be judicious about bottles before bed/teeth brushing. This sounds good because LO still doesn't drink consistently from a sippy (maybe half a sippy a day) but he will be around 15 months then. Is that too late ? I feel like most ppl take it away around 12 months ?
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We took them away at 12 months - cold turkey. It took a couple of weeks but he started drinking his normal amounts from the sippy cup.
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Most of my mum friends started bottle weaning at twelve months but didn't completely stop giving one or two bottles a day until around two years. The last one to go was usually the bedtime bottle.
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DD (12 months) threw an epic fit when I tried to give her a sippy with milk yesterday instead of a bottle. Full on throwing herself on the ground, tears streaming down her face. I'm going give it a break and try again in a few weeks or so.
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We did cold turkey around 12 months. Next time I'll probably wean at least the night bottle over a few weeks. I think it was a hard adjustment for LO
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We weaned off of all bottles except for bedtime bottle at 11-12 months. We kept the bedtime bottle. Our pediatrician said no bottles at all by 16 months. Soooo we weaned him from the bedtime bottle at about 14-15 months. We just went cold turkey and replaced it with book reading in his nighttime routine.
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@RubyCali: I tried a week ago with the same results ugh I dread this
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We did at 12 months...gradually. We were down to 3 bottles a day and cut it the afternoon bottle first. Then we cut the morning one then the bedtime one. It's been over a month and we are still not up to the amount our Dr wants in milk but over all I think she gets enough liquids.
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I'm struggling with this too! DD is 13.5 months and still on bottles. She refuses to drink milk from anything else.
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Once we found the right sippy, the transition was smooth. Before that, we had some epic meltdowns. By 12 months though, we were bottle free.
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I'm way late with this. Little Miss Miss still gets one bottle a day while I'm at work. She drinks water from a straw cup and nurses still. She's 16 months. I have to ask at her next check-up.
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12 mo and no problem. They won't bottle feed at all in 12 month room at daycare.
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15 months. Cold turkey
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We slowly eliminated bottles and went with LO's cues. At first he stopped asking for his morning bottle, and a few days later I initiated with no more nap time bottles. He adjusted very well, and I let DH feed him his nighttime bottle until we ran out of frozen breast milk, which was around 14 months.
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12 months. She had a couple of night bottles until 13 months.
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12 months she quit cold turkey. The first day she didn't drink much milk but the second she scarfed it down during every meal.
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Well I have a long weekend so I gave him a sippy when he woke about 45 min ago. So far he's only had 1oz out of it
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We were done at 12 months. It was about a 3 day transition and she was fine.
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LO gave up daytime milk (opting instead for a straw cup of water) when I tried to switch her bottles to sippy or straw cups around 13 months. So I've kept her night bottle a bottle...but at 20 months and with LO#2 due at the end of April/Beginning of May I think I need to try again to swap the night bottle for a cup of some sort. I'll just feel terrible if this makes her give up milk entirely though, so I'm torn. I'm considering telling her we have to give the bottles to the little baby and buying her done cool new big girl cups...
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We did at 12 months. LO was never attached to any kind of nipple (mine included) so it was easy.
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She took a bottle until she was almost 2. She used a zippy during the day but at night she wanted to nurse and when we weaned the only alternative was a bottle. So thats what she got until she was 2.
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Around 13m? I wanted to wait till we fully transitioned to whole cows milk. But she had been using a straw cup since 7 months and was very good at that.
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This is going to sound bad, but lo still gets a nap time bottle (and whenever she asks for it) at 2 & 1/2. She drinks from her sippy regularly, but only liked milk in bottles. I'm just going with it. DH would like to eliminate bottles completely, but really she only gets like 2 4oz bottles a day so I don't think it's worth the battle.
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He only used a bottle for a month after we weaned at 16.5m. He was having a hard time transitioning to nothing so we let him have one bottle at night. We just stopped cold turkey after his 18m appointment, per his Pediatricians recommendation.
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After 22 mo, I finally eliminated nighttime bottle. Unfortunately, they drink so much less milk now. They will just sooo much with the bottle and with cups, they just drink less. O well, trying to fit dairy in in other ways.
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Update : I've been offering him the sippy whenever I can ! He's had 8 oz so far( 2 oz less than he would normally have had at this point )
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21 months and still gets a bottle a day.
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22 months and still goes to bed with a bottle of water. She finds a lot of comfort in it, so we let her. We tried recently to cold turkey it but it was a fail.
I feel like it's just water and she'll give it up when she's ready.
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We are up to 14 oz of milk from the sippy ! Cautiously optimistic over here !
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Ds took to a straw cup pretty early when we started solids. We weaned btls completely at 11 months!
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@mrsjyw: Which straw cup is your fave??
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@lawbee11: we were using playtex ones but they leak like the zoli. The skip hop one is good but cumbersome w band. Just bought a cheapo 3 pack no spill easy grip and it's AMAZING
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@coacheswife123: How are things going now? I'm going to attempt the switch again but am worried it's going to be really rough. DD always wants her bottle of milk first thing in the morning and is NOT going to be happy with a cup instead!
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@RubyCali: I should've updated this! On day two or three he shared my morning smoothie with me from a straw! Ever since then I've been making him a large smoothie in the mornings. He drinks about 6 oz of it in the morning and 6 oz in the afternoon. And - we are still doing a night time bottle. Not ideal but I'm glad we are at least done with the daytime bottles!!! I haven't been worried about his milk intake with the smoothies each day! As soon as he wakes up I just give him his smoothie instead of his bottle. He loves it!
GOOD LUCK!
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@mrsjyw: What cheapo ones? I am still looking for a leak proof straw cup....
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11 months. She has always loved her straw cups, so the transition was easy peasy!
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@Smurfette: nuby! bought it at tjmaxx for like $6 for three!
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@mrsjyw: They don't leak?!?! I think I have those in my pile from Target to try yet. I don't want to think about how much money I have spent on sippy and straw cups.
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@Smurfette: i think i mentioned this on another board to you, but i have tried the avent and oxo straw cups--i like the avent best. when it tips over, some of the milk in the straw comes out, but i think there is a valve or something that prevents too much milk from coming out. i used to like the oxo cup, but it has been leaking more and more. when it falls on the floor, it will drip and drip.
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@edelweiss: OXO drips for us. I don't remember someone suggesting the Avent. I will add that to the list to try. Does Target sell them?
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