Dropping bottle age

[osulori]

Jun 24, 2015 10:28:14 GMT -5 SJ said:

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.

AJ was the same way.  We do milk in his straw cup starting with breakfast, and roughly half an hour after he was done eating the milk cup would go back in the fridge and he'd get water after that.  Milk cup would come back out at lunch and get topped off to roughly 2/3-3/4 full, and he'd get that until he went down for nap then it'd go back in the fridge and he'd have water after that.  Once he's done with dinner I grab his milk again, top off to 2/3-3/4 full and he gets that until it's time to brush teeth (right before he goes to bed).  It definitely took some time to figure out what worked without letting him drink milk all day long (which would be his preference, he loves the stuff and gets mad sometimes when I give him water), you'll figure out what works too

[laurenh]

I think we were at 1 5 oz bottle a day at 18 months and then dropped it shortly thereafter.

[linz]

Mine are only 8 months but man I CANNOT WAIT until they are done with bottles. Washing them every night has been so annoying. I'm hoping they figure out a sippy or straw cup and I can drop them at a year.

[SJ]

Jun 24, 2015 10:41:48 GMT -5 osulori said:

Jun 24, 2015 10:28:14 GMT -5 SJ said:

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.

AJ was the same way.  We do milk in his straw cup starting with breakfast, and roughly half an hour after he was done eating the milk cup would go back in the fridge and he'd get water after that.  Milk cup would come back out at lunch and get topped off to roughly 2/3-3/4 full, and he'd get that until he went down for nap then it'd go back in the fridge and he'd have water after that.  Once he's done with dinner I grab his milk again, top off to 2/3-3/4 full and he gets that until it's time to brush teeth (right before he goes to bed).  It definitely took some time to figure out what worked without letting him drink milk all day long (which would be his preference, he loves the stuff and gets mad sometimes when I give him water), you'll figure out what works too

SUPER helpful! thank you!

[sparty04]

Our pedi was pretty adamant that we stop using them around 12m, 15 at the latest. I think we stopped around 14m with DS1. I may try to stop closer to 12m with DS2

[CloudBee]

Right at 12 months we were like 95% done. I would pull out an occasional bottle if I wanted extended cuddles (ha!) for another couple months, or if I wanted him to down more fat / protein on a day when he hadn't eaten much.

I also pulled them out again around 16 months when he had HF&M, and filled them with chocolate milk. His mouth hurt so much, it was the only way I could get him to eat / stay hydrated. After that, they were all tossed.

[cricketwife]

Jun 24, 2015 9:55:45 GMT -5 kategm said:

17 months and still going strong 

This is us too. He doesn't use them at daycare but i sits at home. It's not a battle I going to fight. I'm sure he will give them up eventually. Or, if he is a grown man and chooses to drink from bottles, so be it. 

[arebee]

Shortly after 12 months. I put them away when we ran out of formula. She gets a sippy of milk (3/4 full) when she wakes up and after dinner. She gets water the rest of the day.

[kategm]

Jun 24, 2015 11:21:37 GMT -5 cricketwife said:

Jun 24, 2015 9:55:45 GMT -5 kategm said:

17 months and still going strong 

This is us too. He doesn't use them at daycare but i sits at home. It's not a battle I going to fight. I'm sure he will give them up eventually. Or, if he is a grown man and chooses to drink from bottles, so be it. 

I still drink from bottles.  :beer:

[mlt]

We dropped a bottle feeding a week starting around 11.5 months and it took about a month before they were totally done. The first feeding we dropped was the bedtime bottle. We replaced that feeding with water offered in their camelbaks. That was the hardest bottle and doing it first made the rest pretty easy.

[biogirl21]

We stopped around 13 months. I wanted to stop at 12 because I hated washing the damn things, but he was sick and was not drinking enough fluids from just sippies and also wasn't eating, so it was also formula.

[shelbyann]

She was never much of a bottle taker, but we stopped her occasional bottles around 13 months. Our nanny would spend like an hour trying to get an ounce of milk into her, it didn't seem worth the effort. She still doesn't like WCM but drinks water well, and we are still nursing too.

[catbus]

11-12 months. He started practicing with a sippy/straw around 10 months. We were lucky that it was a fairly easy transition for us. 

In contrast, I have a friend-of-a-friend whose kid is nearly 2.5 and still gets bottles all day. Sippies are "too messy" (?). 

[carolinagirl831]

Dd dropped her bottles right at her first birthday. She had no interest at all. She was all about cups. Of course right at 12 months she refused formula and milk. She didn't drink milk for 6 months

[glitzy07]

We quit right around a year when I stopped pumping. C was decent with a straw cup at that point. We did still nurse morning and night for another 6 months.

[rex]

L was 11 months. she had to stay on formula past 1 year and i was so fucking sick of both formula and bottles that i had to get rid of one. since i couldn't get rid of formula, bottles went.

it was completely painless. i just stopped giving them to her. i expected it to be this huge thing and she didn't care. that's her personality though. it didn't work that way for any of my friends' kids.

[niq]

Uh, 13 or 14 months, I think.

[wavepool]

10/11 month range. Our PT/ST were really adamant about getting rid of them asap, which was fine with me.

[sent]

I've got an 18 month old bottle addict. She never took a paci really. I don't plan to drop it until she has better comprehension of what it means to put something away. I can see her lower teeth are crowding. Looks like I'll be putting her in braces at age 4.

[swimmette]

DS was FF. I stopped formula at 11 months and went to food/milk as he started to refuse formula. At 12 months I stopped bottles and went to sippy cups. DS does not have any sucking needs though...no paci/thumb/etc and didn't care about the bottles being gone.

[mcfelix]

12 months pretty much cold turkey. We transitioned to the zoli bot straw cups. However he's almost two and is still a pacifier lover.

[Velar Fricative]

Just under 14 months. We would always offer milk in a straw cup first and then when she'd refuse we gave her a bottle until one day she just decided to stick with the straw cups and there was no turning back.

[pinkyp]

My 17 month old is still taking 2 bottles/ day of WCM. I worry about her getting enough milk otherwise. She has exactly one sippy cup that she'll drink out of, and only because she's obsessed with flipping the lid cover on and off a million times. So most of the time she ends up flinging the damn thing across the room.