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We started weaning right when he turned one. We cut out one bottle a week and replaced it with a cup until he was completely weaned.

We just started transitioning to a straw cup during the day. I will keep a bottle for night before bed till she's 20 if it helps keep her full. But probably until she's a better eater. And she just turned 1.

We went cold turkey at 12 months with a sippy cup. It was a bit of a struggle for awhile but now is ok.

@Alivoo01: that's exactly what our problem is here--LO is used to only water in sippies and straw cups-but we just had our official 1 year appointment and her weight is good right now (actually a small gain in % from 9 months) and her ped said she can go down to 16-18 oz of milk (or in our case, milk alternative) a day, so I just decided to go cold-turkey during the day and only put cold bm+hemp milk in a straw cup.

Before, LO would have had 6 oz in a bottle at 11 am and another 6 oz at 3 pm, and yesterday with the straw cup she had 3 oz in the morning and 1.5 oz in the afternoon, so with her morning and night time bottles, her overall oz were 17 for the day, which is supposed to be fine! She didn't sleep as well for naps or at night because she didn't eat more to compensate for less milk, but I'm hoping she will catch on to eating more food soon.

Again this morning she drank 3 oz out of the straw cup at 11. So we'll see how it goes....it's tough because with the bottle, she just gulps it all down, whereas with the straw cup, she sips it, put it down...sips it, puts it down.. It takes about an hour for her to drink 3 oz. Frustrating.

Interesting question. She only takes bottles rarely since I BF and SAH, so I was thinking we will just only use bottles for BM, however long I BF, and start introducing whole milk in a straw cup (she drinks water out of one now) after 1. So bottle always equals breastmilk, every other drink is always in a cup. BUT we shall she how it goes, since we haven't crossed that bridge yet.

LO only got bottles at daycare and when he switched rooms, they stopped giving him bottles and I guess he was cool with that lol.

@Foodnerd81: Slightly OT but Miss A never took a bottle and she's totally happy to drink cow's milk from a sippy cup even though she's still bf'ing on demand.

Started weaning at 13 months and dropped a bottle every few weeks. He was down to bed bottle by 15 months and we let him have it til 18 months. Replaced each bottle with a straw cup of milk at first and slowly transitioned to milk at meals. We only ever offered milk in bottles so that's all we had to wean from.