#1 (half bottle half BF) - 12 months #2 (mostly Bf, bottles at daycare, true bottle hater) - gave them up on her own at 11 months, nursed till 22 months #3 (mostly BF, bottles only one day per week, slight bottle hater) - right before 12 months, nursed till 22 months
I don't remember for sure - he was down to one bottle at night to help fall asleep (he would drink a little milk, and then nurse the rest of the way to sleep). I don't remember if we cut the bottle before or when we weaned, which was just before 18 months. All other drinks were from a straw cup by then.
Where's @tambcat? My pediatrician says it is developmentally appropriate for many kids to have a strong sucking instinct, bottle or breast or pacifiers or all of the above, until age 2.
That said, we dropped bottles with DD when she was 15 months old out of a combination of lactose intolerance & lack of interest in anything in the bottle that wasn't EBM (and I was no longer pumping then). I'd like to go the same route with DS when I stop pumping, but if he's into other milk and wants it from a bottle, I won't stress about it until after age 2.
Post by longtimenopost on Jun 24, 2015 10:07:39 GMT -5
DD is 2.5 and still takes 3 bottles a day. We keep putting off the inevitable but I'm not SUPER worried because her dentist said as long as she dropped them by 3 it won't affect her mouth development. Plus, she hasn't used a paci since like 6 months so it's limited exposure.
Cold turkey at a year. I was shocked he didn't fight it really. The sippy took a few days for him to figure out but the daycare teacher took off the handle and walla.
At 16m they get them at bedtime on the nights I'm not home (1-2 nights/week). And we used one for some night weaning efforts around 15 months but I think that's as done as it's going to be.
She still has one bottle in the morning and one before bed at 16 months. She is not drinking much though-just about 4 oz at a time. All other drinks in a straw cup/sippy. I think we are going to drop soon but she won't drink milk from a sippy/straw cup. We can't just drop milk altogether, right?
We tried at 12 months and it did not go well. One day at 17 or 18 months his daycare teacher said he was stealing another kid's water cup to drink out of. We put the bottles away that night and never looked back. It was easy.
He will drink water just fine from the sippy but refuses milk. So I still give at bedtime and morning right when he gets up. He was strictly on bottles as he refused to BF.
Post by thebreakfastclub on Jun 24, 2015 10:17:10 GMT -5
14 months - DS got one bottle each morning and it took 2 months to use up my final big tub of formula. Once it ran out, he was done. He didn't care either way.
Post by badtzmaru22 on Jun 24, 2015 10:17:51 GMT -5
DD: just after a year. It was LIFE CHANGING, because once they're on WCM and a sippy, daycare has the sippies and all I have to do is drop off a jug of milk! yessss!!!
DS: he's 11mo tomorrow, and I'm going to try to see if I can just start putting his BM in a sippy cup and sending that. We use the nuk soft nipple-ish ones, since those worked well for DD, but I have been lazy about getting DS to practice. I need to get on it. Especially since we keep smashing the bottles, and I no longer have a three- day supply.
SS--we dropped bottles when she was around 10.5-11mo because she never liked them, and did better drinking bm from a straw cup. Having a bottle-hater really stunk when she was an infant, but the silver lining is we never had to struggle with cutting the bottle!
Post by catsarecute on Jun 24, 2015 10:19:18 GMT -5
She drinks milk from a cup at daycare (won't even drink milk from a sippy at home-WTF) and gets one bottle of milk at bedtime. Knowing she CAN drink from a cup or sippy makes me want to get rid of that damn bottle but it is just one bottle so I can't complain much.
I'm clueless as to when we can just do bath and bed without giving her a bottle.
Post by andthentherewere10 on Jun 24, 2015 10:27:31 GMT -5
13 months but I think it was easy on us because he just gets bottles at daycare and nurses at home with me so I basically just told daycare to start using a cup. They said it wasn't a big deal, though.
I have been wondering this since DD is almost one.
My tentative plan is to cut bottles/formula at 1 year, but I was going to ask her pediatrician about how often to give whole milk, whether or not it should be in bottles or sippy cups, etc.
She currently drinks water out of straw cups at meal times, and so I guess I was thinking to just replace those with milk and then give water other times. I'm not exactly sure how to do it.
We cut out bottles at a year, we worked down to 1/day at daycare until he got the hang of using the sippy cup. We had used straw cups at home, so he transitioned to those with no issue.
He was never really interested in pacifiers until we cut out bottles though, so we may have just swapped one thing for another. The pacifier doesn't bother me, I figure we will deal with that when the time comes.
Post by bananapancakes on Jun 24, 2015 10:38:18 GMT -5
Ha! Something like 12 weeks. He only successfully took 3 bottles in his life, despite lots and lots of attempts. There was a brief resurgence around 7-8 months where he sort of played with them and managed to drink an ounce or so but that's it.
He's done great with a sippy of water since about 8 or 9 months and drinks probably 20-30 ounces a day but he hates WCM. Slowly weaning hasn't been as difficult as I expected it to be. We're down to before bed and wake up only.