Well it's about that time that we start weaning from the bottle and start concentrating on milk instead of formula...but I am so clueless as to how to do this without completely stressing my child out. Did you do cold turkey, did you gradually get rid of it, HELP!
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Subscribing! We're doing in the wrong way... mainly nursed until she was 1, then started giving her bottles for naptime and bedtime since then (it's been two months so far). She won't take cold milk from a sippy or straw cup! I don't know how to make her drink it at meals and she won't fall asleep without sucking for some milk (and I'm about all dried up...).
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We did it gradually by mixing it with the formula over the course of 3-4 weeks. We did 1oz milk to 7oz formula at first and then increased/decreased until it was all milk.
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following...i am totally lost on this too.
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Cold turkey to sippy cups. Still working on milk, but I mixed formula with milk awhile ago. He hated it but drank it as I only offered that for milk.
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Following too... we'll need to do this soon.
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We did it by just giving him whole milk in a bottle or sippy cup after he got use to the milk we nixed the bottles. He did much better then I anticipated. We did the formula first then worked on bottles. He was getting sippy cups full of water st every Neal around 8 months though but he was never a huge fan
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We are just about all the way over to milk, on our last big can of the formula! Still bottles morning and bedtime, but mid-day is now totally on the straw cup......I don't have any plans to cut the bottle quite yet, could you work on mid-day perhaps first? I find for her it's a bigtime comfort/cuddle time bedtime and brekkie bottles.
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We mixed formula + milk in the bottle. Then decreased the amount of formula until it was just 100% milk in the bottle. Then we did milk in a straw cup.
I'm not a cold turkey type of gal. lol
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We wanted to go slowly... ended up only having a bottle for night and morning... but at the 18 month appointment doctor frowned! So we went cold turkey and after about 2 weeks of battles everything is good
Edit... I wanted to mention that my mother looks after LO during the day and she still gives him a bottle for his nap b/c she doesn't like to see him unhappy... I think that's why it took 2 weeks for him to get over it at home.
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We did cold turkey for daytime bottles. Switched him directly to milk and his sippy. He didn't really notice it or care, but was jonesing for his nighttime bottle for a good two weeks. He's 17 months and we still haven't dropped the nighttime bottle of milk, but are slowly cutting back the amount he gets. We're down to 5oz now. Hopefully it'll be gone by 18 months.
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We started with the formula to whole milk transition. We tried cold turkey first but DD got mega constipated and DS wasn't a fan, so we just did 1/4 then 1/2, then all milk. Took it slow, maybe over 2 weeks.
Once they had been on whole milk in bottles for a couple of weeks without issue, we worked on ditching the bottles. I gave milk in a few different types of straw & sippy cups, but just offered with no pressure throughout the day. Once I clued into which cups they liked best, I focused on giving a cup of milk first at normal bottle times. I'd hold them on my lap and help hold the cup if they wanted, and try to get them to drink as much as possible from the cup. Whatever they didn't finish (if more than an oz or 2), I'd put in a bottle and offer afterward. Sometimes they would want the bottle and sometimes not. Within a week, they were done with bottles and there was no fight at all. Now they totally self feed a full cup of milk after every meal while they roam and I clean up
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We weaned from daytime bottles cold turkey before we switched to whole milk. So I put his formula in a straw sippy instead of a bottle and offered it to him throughout the day. He still gets a nighttime bottle. He's only 11.5 months so we're going to let him keep it for awhile...we'll see how long.
We just started the process of switching him to whole milk and we're mixing it with formula. This is day 2 and so far so good
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We focused first on transitioning to milk from formula. Took about a week and a half. I did 1/4 milk - 3/4 formula for a couple days, then 1/2 and 1/2 for a couple more days, 3/4 milk - 1/4 formula, then finally to straight milk. I should note that I tried cold turkey and dude was NOT happy, spit it right out!
It took longer to wean off the bottle. I often offered him 2 sippys at meals (milk and water) and he slowly started to accept milk out of a sippy. At 14 months, he's just using a bottle at bed time although I suspect he'd be fine with taking it out of a sippy. He uses a binky, so I think he'll get the "suck" satisfaction from that.
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@MerryC: I should have read this before I responded. This is exactly what worked for us
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@Beebug: She's at daycare during the day and they were asking me what we wanted to do, I think I will cut the bottle during the day and only give her milk and maybe still give her the actual bottle at nightime to fall asleep.
@Running Elley: I've been giving her a sippy of Soy Milk with meals and she likes it, but when I tried to give it to her before bed she threw it at me and screamed until I gave her a bottle of formula.
@MerryC: this gives me hope that she might not want the bottle. I need to really work on transition and have daycare do the same thing. I have 2 cans of formula that I want to be the last two we buy to help transition. I will start gradually giving less and less formula.Thank you everyone, sounds like I'm not the only one struggling with this! I think I'm going to for the next few weeks gradually start mixing in her soy milk with formula to get her off that, and then I will focus on the actual bottle. Cut daytime bottle and still give her a nighttime one if she seems to need it.
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We were more "warm" turkey. Our biggest issue with the transition was the temperature of the drink. Her formula was always warmer than the refrigerator. We normally used tap water which wasn't necessarily warm just not as cold as the refrigerator.
We also didn't want to have a milk association with the bottle. Formula was for bottles and milk was for cups. We had to warm her milk for a few seconds in the microwave for about a week.
Honestly, what helped us the MOST was daycare. We had just changed daycares and the kids her age were all off the bottle during the day. Peer pressure is amazing. We started daycare on Wednesday and she took her last bottle on Thursday night.
On Friday she wasn't offered her bottle at daycare and we didn't offer it at night time. She fussed some but we didn't look back. This was all a week after turning one.
Our peditrician advised against mixing milk and formula, but honestly I don't recall why now.
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In the midst of this right now. DS gets pumped BM during the day and still nurses first thing in the morning and last thing at night. We tried to do cow's milk in a sippy but BM in a bottle but he wouldn't have any of it. We've resolved to do all milk in a bottle and then once he's done with BM (I'm weaning from the pump) we'll switch to sippy/straw cups. It was just too much going to cow's milk and getting rid of the bottles at the same time.
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We first weaned from formula to milk by mixing and then eventually going to just milk. The bottle weaning took longer as he refused to drink milk out of a sippy at first. I finally would just give him a sippy of milk at lunch instead of giving him any water or a bottle right before. After a few days he started to drink the milk sippy. I repeated this process for dinner and then eventually for breakfast. He still gets a little milk in a sippy before bed but we're okay with this as he brushes his teeth afterwards. It probably took a few weeks to wean from the bottle, he was a little over 13 months.
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Around the one year mark she was still getting 4 bottles a day (every 4 hours)... so 7am, 11am, 3pm, and 7pm. I started by cutting out one of the afternoon bottles first. Then I cut out the 2nd afternoon bottle, then I cut out the morning bottle, and finally cut out the night bottle.
I started decreasing them one by one every 1-2 weeks, and gave her a straw cup with milk at every meal. I was worried most about the nighttime bottle, but she didn't even miss it!
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