I dream of the day we're not washing +10 bottles each night. When did you bottle wean your LO? How long a process was it from start to finish?
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He was about 13 months, took probably 3 weeks or so to officially wean him. What worked best for us was not giving a bottle after he woke up from his AM nap and instead we waited until lunch to give him a sippy of milk. It took him a few days to realize that the sippy was all he was getting and he finally started drinking it. We repeated this process with the rest of his bottles over the next few weeks.
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Dd is 13 months and just recently started taking a straw cup. She had been taking a spout cup but not drinking too much from it. I started bottle weaning almost immediately. I cut the morning bottle first, then a week later the naptime bottle. We are down to just the bedtime one. The other ones she dropped on her own as she started taking more solids and as she moved from purees to table foods. So in 2 weeks we went from 3 bottles to 1, but that 1 is about 8 oz so I don't know when we will cut it.
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10.5m went to "transitional" sippy and before he was even 12m he was 100% done and on normal sippy cups, straw cups or just the usual kitchen glasses (although at 12m old, he needs us to hold them to his lips).
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LO transitioned completely around 14 months. At that point he was only drinking breast milk from the bottle once at night. I had already weaned him off of morning and nap time bottles. It wasn't as difficult as I imagined. I made sure that soy milk and water was given in straw cups only.
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18 months. We were only doing 2-3/day since 12 months but I'm so glad to be done!!
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LO is alittle over 11 months and we just dropped down to 1 bottle a day. hoping to be done by 12 months! i dropped a bottle starting at 10 months. we dropped the mid morning bottle first, then 2 weeks later dropped the mid afternoon bottle, then a couple days ago dropped the morning bottle. last bottle is the night time bottle. it was pretty easy so far tho since she drinks well from a straw. i just offered the straw cup instead of the bottle. in the beginning if she didn't drink well i'd give the rest in her bottle. soon enough she drank enough through her straw cup that i just dropped the bottle. i hate washing bottle parts too!!
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She still gets two bottles a day (bedtime and nap) at 17 months. I'm not in a huge rush to get rid if it.
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We tried at 12 months and DD threw a fit, so we tried again at 14 months, and she never noticed. She had been using a straw sippy since about 10 months old or so, and we just started giving her all of her milk in those. I was surprised at how easy it was, compared to how much she had protested just 2 months before!
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@kodybear: I didn't even think about starting to transition them now! So you just replaced the bottle with the straw cup for the feeding then? Not that you dropped the feeding altogether?
Thanks, everyone! We've been giving them straw cups with water since around 5 months, so they're pretty adept at them now. I'm excited to start transitioning them soon. And I'm sure when the bottles are all gone, I'll be sad at how big they're getting, lol.
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@sunshineandsushi: We got him off bottles around the time he turned 1. We started giving him sippy cups around 7 months so he was used to the sippy.
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We started around 12 months and completely weaned at 14 months.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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!!!
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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.
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@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?
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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.
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!
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@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.
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around 13-14 months he was completly off them! it went alot easier then i expected, i was terrified bc he LOVED his bottle.
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12 months for day bottles and 13 for night!
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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!
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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!!
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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.
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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!
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@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.
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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.
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@keiki_mama: We use Dr. Brown's too. Cannot WAIT to be done with washing all those parts!
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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.
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@keiki_mama: @sunshineandsushi:
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.
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.
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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.
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answered this years ago for DS1
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.
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Wow, flashback! Haha.
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.
You know your LOs best.
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!
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@bluestriped bee: both of my kids were low birth weight and low percentile babies. We switched to whole milk at 12 months. See above!
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T is 18 months and still taking 3 a day- I plan to wean her around 2.
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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
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DD was fully off bottles by 13 months. I just stopped sending them to daycare.
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Weaned from nursing, and bottles at the babysitter at 13.5 months.
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