How Much Milk??

I tried doing to gradual but mine would hold out until I gave her a bottle. On her 1st BD I got rid of all the bottles and we have been doing great ever since. She she has never been a big "drinker", less than 15 ounces a day so all I give her is milk. Cold turkey was the way for me but some babies still want that bottle at night. Mine was not one of them.

My pediatrician recommended 24 oz (8 oz cup with each meal) of whole milk per day until he turns 2 years old. Otherwise, it could cause tummy upset and/or constipation.

I have 3 kids and I took the bottles away cold turkey with each one. My two older daughters lost interest in the bottles by themselves before they were one. With my son, I took it away completely right before he turned one.

If you do cold turkey she might not want to take the sippy cup, get a sippy cup that has a really soft top, they like those better when it's the first time. Just give her the sippy cup and see how it goes. I gave my daughter a sippy cup when she was 6 months and since it had a hard top she did not like it, so I got one that had a soft top and she loved it, she was off the bottle at 7 months. Good luck

We were told about 8-12 oz of milk a day and did this with both of ours.
Taking the bottle away cold turkey is easiest. She may protest for a day, but she'll figure out the sippy quickly.

Our doctor told us to quit cold turkey, and in 3 days our son would be fine with a sippy cup. Well, after 5 days with NO milk, we gave up. He wouldn't even take a Nuby sippy cup, so we gave him milk in a water bottle with some strawberry syrup. When he got used to that, he would drink the strawberry milk out of a sippy cup. We eventually decreased the strawberry syrup until it was only milk. That's the only thing that worked for us!
Our doctor told us between16-32 oz. Some days he drinks more milk, some days less.

I think gradually is Best cause they might get too upset and not want milk at all. I only gave him a bottle at nap/bedtime and when my DS woke up in the morning and gave him a sippy(nuby w/straw) during meals and gradually decreased the ounces in his bottle until he was left w/nothing and he did just fine. The hardest part was the morning bottle so I warmed up his milk and put it in his sippy cup and put him in his highchair and he drank it and was fine after that.

Good Luck.
I hope this helps,
M.

If I remember correctly, it's about 24-30 ounces of milk a day at 1 yrs old. I switched to a sippy cup for everything except the last bottle of the day until my daughter was very comfortable and then switched that one too.

Good Luck!

No more than 24oz of milk a day is what my dr told me to much milk can harm them. I took all the bottles away at the same time i told my son that we needed to give them to another baby. He resisted a little at first but he figured out after a while if he was thirsty that was what he had to drink, he liked the disposable sippy cups the best out of all.

I don't think your child will let you take the bottles away cold turkey--- You should wean--- My daughter is 2 and she still has her bedtime bottle-- I started w sippy cups during the day (sometimes gave her a bottle at naptime)and then gave her a bedtime bottle. She did not drink as much from a sippy cup vs a bottle but that is okay---she started to eat more.

just take it away cold turkey. My son drinks milk about five or six sippy cups of milk or chocolate milk a day. But he will be three next month.

Whatever you do don't make your child drink too much milk. Milk isn't as great for kids as people say it is. it can be the cause of many health issues such as food allergies, constipation, ear infections and ADD. I know this is the opposite of what you hear but trust me too much milk will do more harm than good.