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Subscribing! We're having the same thing.

Ive also wondered this.
When baby turns one do you just stop offering bottles? So confusing!

My lo loved her bottle. We waited until she turned one and then quit cold turkey. I just replaced her bottle with a zippy of milk. At first she was slow to drink and only had a few sips, but by day two she was gulping the whole sippy down.

Subscribing as well! The thought of weaning makes me nervous!

Did anyone introduce whole milk slightly before 1 year? Did anyone's LO reject whole milk? Are there any tips to get your LO to like milk (this is a big worry of mine!)?

@Sammyfab: I waited until a year to introduce whole milk, but the the transtion was really easy. I just started mixing in the whole milk in the bottle in larger % of whole milk until it was all milk. I do have a friend who started offering whole milk to all 3 of her kids at around 10 or 11 mo, at the advice of her pediatrician. One of her kids actually ended up having a reaction to the milk, which was stressful since she was EBF and her supply was dropping. But after he hit the one year mark, she tried again and he was fine. So you may just want to wait until 1 yr.

To respond to the original post, when DS was really getting into his solids, he definitely reduced his milk (breast milk) intake during the day. We started offering the bottle separate from meal time and a sippy of water at meal time, and then gradually he moved to having a sippy of milk at meal time and bottles morning and night.

@littleveesmommy: There was definitely a transition/rejection period. He was so used to getting his milk in a bottle that he would push it away if I gave it to him in a sippy. That's why we kept up with the bottles as long as we did (actually he still gets one in the am at 16 months, embarrased to say but not stressing over it). He has gotten better over time though, and he has milk with his meals now and just the one bottle in the AM. Give it a try though, you never know what will happen!

subscribing too--this is so confusing. Our pediatrician recommended getting my daughter on 3 meals per day, 2 snacks, and completely off of formula by 1 year. He wants me to start introducing cow's milk now. This all surprised me, but as we have been on nutramigen for 9 months, I'm pretty anxious to stop spending so much money on powder formula and ready to see how she does on milk. Of course she's teething now and my ambivalent eater is all of a sudden now more interested in the bottle than ever before, so I'm not sure now is the right time to reduce bottle size and introduce more food. I'd love love love to see a post on this by a bee with a formula-fed baby.

I'm dreading the bottle weaning. He's almost 9 months and still loves his bottle. I'm hoping he'll just suddenly be over it and more into food in the next couple of months. It is really confusing.

I didn't start to wean until LO was close to 13 months old. I was pretty sure LO had a dairy allergy. Once that was confirmed I introduced soy milk in a zoli cup at each meal. He would take a bottle before his naps, and I dropped the nap bottles cold turkey. He didn't seem to mind at all. My LO dropped the morning bottle on his own, and the hardest was the nighttime bottle. I decided that DH could continue to feed LO a nighttime bottle until my frozen breast milk ran out, which happened a few weeks later. I could tell that my LO missed it, and it took about two day for him to fully adjust. We also changed our nighttime routine accordingly (rock & sing a song instead of bottle). By 14 months he was officially off the bottle.