I'm curious when most people weaned from bottles. I was reading this morning that you could potentially transition from bottles to sippies at ~9 months. We have a really tough time fitting in both dinner and a night time bottle.
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Our dr suggested we have her weaned by 15 months, at her 12 month appointment. It took maybe a week, tops.
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2 days after her 1 year bday.
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LO was done with bottles before 12 months. He took to a sippy cup instantly and was also still nursing a few times a day.
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Almost 13 months for LO 1. LO 2 refused to use a bottle after 10.5 months.
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I want to be done now. LO has other plans (she's 12 months). She still won't take a sippy or straw cup (just chews them). We introduced them months ago and have tried several types. She loves drinking out of an open cup, but she isn't capable of doing it on her own yet. Hopefully something clicks soon
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This sounds lame, but when I weaned her from nursing at 18 months she took to the bottle. It was what we had to do but by age 2 she was done with it.
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we went to straw cups at 10 months for water only. we ditched the bottles at 12 months and got her different straw cups for milk
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LO never took to a bottle. She started with a sippy at 4 months and uses that for breast milk or homo milk now and started straw cup for water at 10 months. I am still nursing 3x a day. She'll be a year next week.
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I can't get her to switch to sippies now and she's 12.5 months. ughhh
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12 months.
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We started with straw cups earlier - around 8 months, but kept a morning and night bottle until 16 months. I think DH was more addicted than she was. We went on vacation over the 4th of July and haven't used a bottle since.
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We started weaning right at the one year mark and it took about 3 weeks (we took a bottle away a week).
But we also didn't do night-time bottles. His last bottle of the day was usually around 4:00 p.m. and then he'd have a sippy at dinner around 5:30. We had introduced sippies at 6 months with water when he started solids. When we weaned, we replaced his bottle with a sippy.
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@BlueWolverine: Did you worry that she wasn't getting enough milk/formula? I'd love to start transitioning soon, but even though he's pretty good with a sippy during meals, he usually only drinks a few ounces. Whereas bottles he drinks 6-8.
@Adira: It didn't affect his sleep to not have night time bottle? I'm super scared he'll stop STTN if we take it away because he'll be hungry.
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I've been trying since 9 months (she's 11 months now). She gets a morning bottle and bedtime bottle, but her 2 daytime ones I am trying to do cows milk in a straw cup.
She can get the milk out, but she takes too much so some (quite a bit actually) comes back out. I'm hoping when she goes to daycare next month they can help with that. Her AM bottle should be easy to phase out but I feel like her bedtime one will be tricky...I'm worried she will stop STTN. And selfishly I like the cuddles right before she goes down
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Mine are 14 months and HATE milk in a straw cup, so bottles it continues to be. It's not a huge priority for me, I'm going to keep offering it at different times in a cup and I figure eventually it will happen.
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@ShootingStar: She does a lot better drinking milk with straw cups than with sippy cups. We give water in either, but milk is generally in a straw cup because we know she'll drink more.
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Around 14 months. I went away for work for a week and it was way easier for hubs to get her to go down at night with a bottle. When I got back, we ditched the bottle. She tried to nurse at night but I was pretty much dried up from being away from her for a week and not pumping so she eventually just moved on happily.
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@birdofafeather: What straw cup do you use for water vs milk? DS drinks from a straw cup just fine, but doesn't drink milk from it so we still give him a bottle for milk.
How did you ladies transition your LO from warmed up milk to cold milk? DS isn't a fan of cold milk either.
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11 months. She loved her straw cups so much & it was never an issue.
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We started DD with a straw cup of cold WCM at meals "just for fun" at 9.5 months. My ped recommended this because I was worried about my supply. It took a few weeks for her to get a taste for WCM, but she was drinking 2-4 ounces a day by 11 months. When I weaned, we transitioned from bottles of warmed BM to straw cups of cold WCM by swapping one at a time for a week each. By the time I stopped pumping at 12 months, she was taking all her daytime milk through the straw. I was still nursing at wake up and bedtime until 14 months. When we weaned the wake up feed, we just gave her breakfast right away. For the bedtime feed, we transitioned from breast to a bottle of WCM, but DD realized really quickly that a bottle was hard work compared to the straw cup, so she really weaned herself. Now we just do WCM at meals and she doesn't take separate milk before bed.
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We started at 12 months and by 13 months they were put away in storage. My kids were very bad sleepers until right before 1, so I couldn't risk them not getting enough calories during the day. I have friends who transitioned much later though!
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@Alivoo01: we use a B Box cup for water and a Lansinoh Momma cup or a take and toss straw cup for milk.
As for temperate, we only offered WCM cold in the cup, so she got used to it from the start. I had it in my head that WCM and BM were going to be completely different experiences - cold v warm, cup v bottle - and it worked. She never complained because it wasn't set up to be the same.
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@Alivoo01: we used a zoli for water and lollacup or the cheap cups from target for milk. we have added a camelbak waterbottle and a thermos foogo for milk on the go!
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@septca: We currently use the take and toss for water if we're at home and any straw cup the restaurant gives us when we're out. I still warm up WCM so there goes that shock change. Crap! I've given DS cold WCM, but he'll only take a few sips and be done with it. Same with cold WCM in a bottle. He'll take one ounce tops and be done with it. Warm it up and bam - all 8oz gone!
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@birdofafeather: Foogo!! that's a great idea!! I need to get one! Thanks!!
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She was off bottles by 13 months, we had to stop cold turkey, it took a few days of her not being really mad.
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@ShootingStar: For the longest time, I used to do a dreamfeed for Xander around 9:00 p.m., but at 8 months (or maybe 9??), I stopped, and he just continued to sleep through the night. After that, I stopped worrying about it! He might've started eating more at dinner, I'm not sure, but he didn't seem to miss the dreamfeed at all.
Just so you know, when we did wean off the bottles, he went 2-3 weeks where he really didn't drink that much. But after that, he started drinking more again. He still doesn't drink as much from sippies as he used to from bottles, but we just started giving him more yogurt to compensate.
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By 14 months. I did drag it out for about 2 months since I was worried about LO not taking as much fluids when switching to sippys. He didn't care at all though.
At our 1 year check up the pedi strongly suggested we bottle wean by 18 months. He has seen a lot of power struggles develop if you go on with bottles too long.
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