Weaning from Bottle - Covington, GA

Well, with both of youngest (now 2 and 3) I weaned them in a week. I let them have the bottle first thing in the morning and right before bed at night. After a few days I took away the morning one and only kept the night bottle. At the end of the week I took the night bottle away as well. Both of them did splendidly with this and it was fairly easy. Hope this helps!

Okay so that old saying that they will get thirsty enough and just start drinking from it. Intirely not true. My son almost got dehydrated because I kept thinking that. He would drink everything from a sippy cup except milk. So I decided that I just wouldn't give a bottle at all. Well it came back and bit me. He went on strike and didn't drink anything all day from a bottle or sippy. I had to get creative and ended up teaching him how to drink from a straw. But that was after numorous calls to my husband at work and the Dr. He ended up drinking his first milk for the day at 9:00pm.

A few weeks after his 1st birthday he got a really bad sinus infection and he couldn't breath when he tried to drink out of a bottle so he started throwing that on the floor. He basicly gave it up himself. Just remember if your child is as stubborn as mine be careful and make sure that he is still getting his fluids. We came real close to making a trip to the emergency room.

M.,
I am a mother of multiples. I took my boys off the bottle cold turkey. I introduced the sippy cup at around eight to nine months. The day that they turned a year old I gave them thier last bottle for bed and never gave them one again.

M.,
Since your child doesn't take a bottle at night and is accustomed to sippy cups already, then going cold turkey probably won't be that big of a change (ie probably won't be hard).
However, you might want to consider your child's temperment and personality. If he hasn't done well with change in the past or has trouble adapting to change, then cold turkey wouldn't be a good idea.

Good Luck,
A.

I posted this same issue awhile back!! My daughter will also be one this weekend. (Happy B-day Nate) Madison was very stubborn. She wouldn't take the sippy cup at all. So, I didn't give her a bottle at all. After awhile of being thristy, she picked it up off the floor (after she threw it across the room), and drank from it. I threw all her bottles away. So she didn't have a choice. I also started with the sippy cups shaped like a bottle before going to the "real" sippy cup. Good luck!!!

just give him the bottle 2 times a day, morning and bed time. don't put juice in his bottle. milk or water only and he should do fine releasing the bottle.

we gave our daughter a sippy cup during the day and before bed a suppy cup of water. the best sippy cup all depends on the child, we went through several till landing with gerbers transitions cup works the best, its almost like a bottle. and has an all soft top so its comfy to them

I would only give him 1 bottle @ bedtime for about 1 week. They have sippy cups called "Nuby" and you can buy them @ WalMart and they are not that expensive and the tops are soft silicone instead of the hard ones which makes it an easier transition. This worked extremely well with my children.

Good luck!
J.

I found when my oldest boy who is now 4 turned 1 that is was easier for me to just take it away and replace it with a sippy cup. I was all prepared for a battle b/c I figured he was highly attached to the bottle and wasn't going it give it up without a fight but to my suprise only a few days before his birthday I went to make him a bottle in the wee hours of the morning and after he drank a full bottle he cried for another...irrated I vowed that I was not going to be making 2 bottles back to back every feeding so that morning I went out and bought his age appropriate sippy cup and filled it up with juice and gave it to him. He rejected it at first but also never asked for the bottle...I waited until he got thristy and offered the sippy cup, he took it and the bottle sat on the counter until the day of his birthday, I have a picture of me holding him standing over the trash can and throwing it away. Buy a sippy cup, maybe even let him pick it out.

Hi M., Happy Birthday Nate!!! I jsut started giving my little boy who is now 17 months a sippy cup and put the bottles up all together. He never go another one from that point on.

But sometimes the milk comes out of the cup faster so you will just have to trial and erro on that. The cheap first years cups are the easiest. But I like the kind with a spout so it does not leak.

I hope this helps

Hi M., my son is now 16 months and has not taking a bottle since October (10 months). Because then we only had and had left it at my moms so he had no choice, and he did great so we never gave it to him again. Everyone told us it would be hard but it was nothing. I saw just do it cold turkey. Good luck. And tell him happy birthday :)
S.

With both of my girls now age 5 and 3, I just put the bottles away when they turned 1--cold turkey. I believed gradually decreasing the time would have confused them. Like you, neither of them every slept with a bottle and were already accustomed to the sippy cup. Not much of a struggle. If he gets thirsty enough, he will drink from the cup. Good luck.

I'd go cold turkey. I tried doing it gradually with my daughter and after a couple of days of giving in because it was easier (for me, mostly) I decided it was kinder just to make the switch. No problems on this with either one of my kids. They'd used sippys before, so knew how to do it. The fact that he didn't use a bottle to get to sleep is a big plus. good luck!

with my first child I didn't break her till she was 2. It was hard. With my 2nd I broke her at 11 1/2 months right before her sister came home from the hospital. My third was premature so she was on it till she was off formula at 16 months. My 4th I decided to never let her go to sleep with the bottle because that was the hardest thing to break with my oldest. Plus they say it really isn't a good idea. I always only gave her the bottle for formula and she got it drank it and then I put it up. She never walked around with it. On her first birthday she woke up and I never gave it to her. I let her say goodbye to her bottles the night before. She was a little fussy the first day but after that she never wanted it again till I had my son and she was almost three then.
Good luck to you.
S.

Babycenter.com I would start gradually for a couple of days and then just get rid of it if he is use to the cup. If you put his favorite drink in the cup and water in the bottle he will chose on his own.