Bottles at 14 months?

[jeaniebueller]

How many, if any, were you doing at this age? We normally just do one at bedtime, but sometimes--like when we are out and about--it's so much easier to just hand her a bottle to calm her down if she is fussy. E.g., at my moms house last weekend, I let her have 2-3 bottles a day because she was being super cranky. And they calm her immediately. At what point should I cut that out and just deal with it?

[indylady]

DS took a bottle before his afternoon nap and before bed at 14mo. I did away with the nap bottle the next month and the bedtime bottle at 16mo. If it works for you, I'd keep on giving her a bottle! After awhile it seemed like DS didn't need/like them as much.

[kategm]

Here. Bottle at nap and bedtime. And if we're traveling in the car and need her to calm/go to sleep. She's almost 19 months and I intend to try and drop them soon.

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Aug 7, 2015 21:06:35 GMT -5 @starry said:

I let her have one at bedtime until 15 months I think.

I am no dentist but I honestly can't see why it makes a huge difference on teeth vs sippies (especially soft spout sippies). I can see vs a regular cup but wouldn't sippies also end up with the milk rubbing all over their teeth?

My sister took bottles (including those with apple juice, lol) forever and her teeth are great. I am sure experts didn't just make it up that bottles are bad for teeth but it is not one of my things to dwell on.

I am a dentist  and my 20 month old still takes 6 bottles a day.   Our pedi said straw cups are what we need to be using because sippies are no better than a bottle.  After the last bottle at night I make sure to brush and rinse her mouth out as best as I can before putting her to bed.  It's the MOTN bottle that is an issue, I really should rinse her mouth out after that bottle too but we're all wanting sleep at that point. 

I'll transition her when she shows signs of being ready.  Pulling the straw out and playing with it = not ready.     

[jeaniebueller]

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But you will find ways to sooth after you drop the bottle. Is it the sucking that calms her? Or the milk? Will she take a paci? Pouch? Straw cup of milk? Puffs?[/quote]


Maybe. But I have been lazy and handing her a bottle is an easy fix. She is cutting molars and is just ornery lately. I was legit out of ideas last weekend so the bottle saved us.

[jeaniebueller]

Also, she does sippies all day at daycare. Maybe I should not worry if it's just at home? With DS, we stopped all bottles by 13 months, so this is new to me.

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Well DS is going to be one in a week and still has 5 bottles a day and 1-3 overnight so we will likely still be using them at 14m

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Aug 7, 2015 21:38:04 GMT -5 @starry said:

A DENTIST SAID IT'S OK!

We can all rest

You know I can hear my old pediatric dentistry lectures in my head ALL THE TIME saying "Teach the parents to put the kid to bed with water in the bottle at night."  I tried that and each time DD has been like "WTF is this?" and proceeds to scream louder.  Lately I've just been tossing the remainder bottle in her crib if she hollers at 4 am because she didn't finish it at 2 am. Believe me, the guilt is strong. 

[SJ]

We went cold turkey and dropped bottles at 1 year.

She drinks water from straw cups and milk from sippy cups which are probably the same as bottles. Oh and still uses a pacifier in her crib which is also not ideal.

[speyedr]

DD still gets two bottles a day now at 16 months. Her bedtime bottle is before her bath and we brush her teeth before she goes to bed. Her pedi is pressuring is to drop them but she won't drink milk out of anything else, she refuses.

[Deleted]

At that age DS got one at nap and bed. Also, in situations like you describe (when I'm just trying to keep the peace) or he was miserable, I'd throw him an extra in the daytime.

It was a battle I REALLY wanted to fight...lol..but ultimately chose not to.

And looking back I shouldn't have even cared because the little punk turned 15 months, pointed to his sippy at nap one day and that was that. Could've done that 4 months earlier kid.

He now goes to bed with a sippy...so it's not like much as changed. DD too until she was 3. Another war in the bedtime battle I wasn't about to have. 

FWIW, both my kids were sippy cup particular. DD only like the straw kind. DS likes the regular old hard spout ones.

Both have great teeth btw. Ha. Antecdotes.

If this where I fail as a parent, I'll still call it a win.

[cricketwife]

We dropped them at 17 months. He took straw cups no problem at daycare and sometimes at home, but he also wanted bottles. For him, it was comfort and I often filled them with water. He didn't take a paci so it was his only comfort thing. We tried twice to drop them before then and it was awful. Then, at 17 months, it was easy.

[dcrunnergirl52]

We dropped them altogether at 13 months with DD and DS1.

For DS2, we dropped daytime bottles at 15 months (he was having eating issues so we had to give him pediasure in a bottle until then). He kept a bedtime and naptime bottle until 2 years old b/c we were lazy about dropping it. We went cold turkey at 2 years old to a straw sippy cup for naptime and bedtime without any problems.

[thebreakfastclub]

It was one first thing in the morning, to use up one final tub of formula. I was kind of sad to see it go, but DS didn't care one bit. But life without bottles is generally an improvement.

[irishbride2]

We want cold turkey around 14 months. Both kids were grumpy at first but about 3 days in they both STYN. I think the middle of the night bottles had become a return and were stopping them from STTN.

[anna7602]

I don't really see this as any different than nursing at the same age. Sucking on anything- a pacifier, a breast, a bottle nipple, is incredibly soothing for a lot of 14-month olds. 2-3 doesn't sound like too much to me.

Eta: dd didn't go down to 3 nursing sessions per day until she was about 15 months old. DS is still nursing 5-6x/day at 12 months.