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Help Weaning from Bottle
Read all 19 responses: "I have a 18 month old son who is still on the bottle and eats baby food from a jar. I can't seem to get him to take a sippy cup or ...
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- Hello S., the onething I found out to be true is that all three of my children were different when it came to weaning them off the bottle. I weaned my god son off his ...
- When my girls were that age, I took them to the store and let them pick out their own sippy cups. They were always excited about using the cup they picked out.
- My doctor suggested diluting the formula like 3 scoops instead of 4 and then 2 scoops instead of 4 and then 1 scoop instead of 4. When we got down to 1 to 4, he starte...
Weaning from Bottle
Read all 33 responses: "My son is 1 year old and was a breastfeeding baby up until 11 months old. We supplemented with formula, which was given in a bottle.
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- Hi, I think everyone pretty much already said what I wanted to, but.... 1st. I held off from pulling the bottle at your son's age & why is because it's more of a c...
- With both my kids I went sippy cup cold turkey the day after thier 1st b-day. They won't starve, they won't dehydrate, they get it after a day or two. You have to get ...
- I think you should stick to your guns and just give him a sippy cup. Eventually he'll learn that's the only way he's going to get it. Also, maybe try giving him a di...
Help Weaning from Bottle to Sippy Cup with Cows Milk
Read all 20 responses: "At the beginning of the week I switched my son from formula to cows milk. At the same time I took the bottle away.
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- Hello Heather, Just to say, that you can wait a couple of months until yo take his bottle away, but in the meantime you can give him a little of milk in the sippy c...
- Umm...maybe I am crazy but why can't you give him his milk in a bottle? My daughter is 2 and still gets her milk in a bottle....2 times a day, in the morning and at n...
- I did the same thing as you with both of my children. They started getting water, and diluted juice at about 6-10 months old. When they turned one I took away the bott...
Weaning 11 Mo Old off the Bottle
Read all 14 responses: "Hi, I am trying to start weaning my 11 month old daughter off the bottle. She has been drinking juice out of sippy cup for months ...
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- Here's my two cents, water down the milk in her bottle and she will learn the milk thats not water down is in the sippy cup. Both my kids pretty much gave up thier bot...
- My son did the same thing. He was about 8 and a half months when I decided he could handle the sippy cup full-time. You just have to be strong and stick by your decisi...
- I know this isn't exactly what you asked, but might help, too. If you do night bottles, she might have learned that sucking gets her to sleep. To teach her to fall a...
Help with Weaning: Breast to Bottle
Read all 13 responses: "I have a three month daughter. I have been breastfeeding her since she was born and have been having one problem after another.
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- I would have to agree with the whole slow flow/fast flow thing. My dd was not a very good nurser - she would get tired & fall asleep after about 2 oz. When I finally...
- Maybe try the Adiri Natural Nurser (adiri.com) I have not used one, but I recently took one out and looked at the bottle at Babies R Us and I was amazed at how similar...
- J., I too had this problem, except my daughter was 6 months old and would have nothing to do with the bottle. I tried every bottle out there. I had to go to a sales c...
Weaning from the Bottle
Read all 17 responses: "I'm a proud Mommy to a beautiful 11-mos old son. He'll be 1yr on New Year's Day!! My husband & I have begun the discussion of ...
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- I nursed my son, but worked full time, so my husband obviously gave him a bottle. This was the nap-time routine. When he started to get teeth (9mos), I got a little fr...
- Have you got him on sippy cups for water at other times of day? I found that the transition to sippies was fairly smooth. I would switch him to formula or whole milk...
- Like someone else said, don't do it bc others say you should or have to or that their kid stopped taking a bottle at such & such an age and so should yours. I see no ...
Weaning off the Bottle
Read all 13 responses: "Hello everyone. Looking for ways to wean off the bottle. He's not really attached to it but will only drink milk from it.
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- I took milk and watered it down in my daughters cup and every few days added more milk till she drank it straight. I also skipped the morning bottle and offered the cu...
- How old is he?? What I found worked for me and my son when he wouldn't take to any type of hard sippy cup is the Gerber trainers. Expensive as heck but the laytex sp...
- Weaning was not a problem because when my children turned one, the bottles were thrown away or given away. ALL of them so there was no... oh, you can have just one mo...
"Advice on Weaning 12 Month Old from Bottle to Cup"
Read all 9 responses: "My daughter is 12 months old and currently takes 3 bottles of milk a day. One around 8:30am (6oz) about 2 hours after breakfast, ...
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- I used the Avent trainer spout. You can even get the kit with the nipple, and the trainer spout to get her used to the bottle itself, then do a switcher-oo. It worked ...
- My son is 14 months and also wanted nothing to do with a sippy cup. What I did was just leave the cup out when he is playing. Then every time he came near me I would o...
- Hello, It could be that the liquid is coming out to fast or not fast enough. It could aslo be the muth part is to hard. The shape could be the wrong fit for her h...
Weaning 2 Year Old from Bottle
Read all 13 responses: "My daughter just turned two in July. My husband and I agreed that when she turned two we were going to wean her from the bottle.
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- Don't worry about the calcium. my experience with my grandchildren who were breast fed is that they don't like the taste of milk. Therefore they drank juice and wate...
- I don't have much weaning advice, but after reading your post thought I would pass along some related thoughts. I have an 18 month old son who has milk, soy, and pean...
- Don't give in. She knows you'll give in. Just keep giving her the cup and tell her that her bottle is broken. My daughter went off the bottle at 21 months because s...
Weaning from Nursing to Bottle
Read all 13 responses: "I have an 8 month old beautiful baby girl. I have not made her room yet, so for the past month she's been sleeping in her play pen ...
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- All babies and I mean All babies sleep differently, just because your pediatrician says she should be sleeping through the night doesn't mean that she has to. My litt...
- sounds to me like she is nursing mainly for comfort. when she wants to nurse, offer a bottle instead and see if she'll take it or maybe offer a paci or or other comfo...
- Since I just asked a weaning questin recently I will provide some info someone told me to see if perhaps it can work for you. Has your sweetie tried a sippy cup yet?? ...
