i need to bottle break soon how should i start and what r some good tips?

Answer 1

My pediatrician told me just to start my daughter on less of a bottle every day until she isn't needing them any more. She will be (1) July 15th.

Answer 2

When it was time to start switching over I had the "Bottle Fairy" Come.
The bottle fairy left great sippy cups, travel cups, and little goodies. I told the kids that they were big now and other babies needed the bottles.
I made it a big deal, very important etc. I talked about it before hand etc.. so it was not a surprise. All of the sippy cups had ribbon on them and left one every place a bottle was left.
I had a couple of new little baby books for them and a small toy or two (with the sippy cups).
Before all of this was started I did decrease the number of bottles and started only giving the good stuff in cups. Worked like a charm.

Answer 3

When my son was 1 i had trouble breaking him from a bottle to a sippy. I had a friend tell me to just take his bottles and put them up. Give him nothing but a sippy. I didn't want to do it that way but it was my last resort so I tried it. IT WORKED. After about 2 days hes was off the bottle completely. Once he realized that he wasn't getting a bottle anymore he just used the sippy. Before i did that though i introduce the sippy a few times just to make sure he new how to use it. I also found out that if he was thirsty enough that he would use the sippy.

Answer 4

the younger you start the better... I started mine at 5 months with just water in a sippy cup. You can get some and the sipper on it is longer, so it goes to the back of the mouth just like a bottle. The texture on the sippy is a rubber, so it's not so hard, if they bite down on it... it's still soft. As they adjust slowly to that, you can then upgrade to the hard end. Also as soon as my daughter reached 9 months I put her on to homo milk... in the regular sippy cup. It was then an two in one. So it wasn't so bad. Just keep trying. If it is an older kid, keep talking about being a big kid and not a baby, that helped mine with lots of things, including toilet training. Hope that helps.

Answer 5

Start with the sippy cup during the day. Then start putting only water in the bottle. If they wanat anything else, must use a cup. My son stopped using the bottle by the time he was a year old.

Answer 6

We weaned our son from the bottle after, he became so attached to a certain nipple he refused any others. We simply got soft sippy cups...we used NUBY, they worked awsome. One thing I was told was if your baby is trying to drink out of your cups or has interest in other cups they are ready(I don't know that it is true or not) Then we started harder spouted sippy cups during the day. He is now 17 months old and hasn't used a bottle since he was 10 months old. He now only drinks out of none sucky sippy cups or regular cups.

Answer 7

There's a company called NUK (available at Walmart) that makes a "bottle" with different types of tops all in one packages. It starts with a regular bottle top to one resembling a sippy cup to one that is more of a straw. This is an awesome cup because it'll transition your baby right out of bottles without them ever even noticing.

Answer 8

try introducing a sippy cup, and telling her about how big girls use big girl cups and slowly just see less and less of the bottle....
and remember out of sight out of mind! so maybe pack up all the bottles and put them somewhere she wont find them.
Then when you are on your last bottle and she is finally ready to let it go, put it in a large envelope and mail it to your deska t work, or your parents house! Tell her your mailing it to a new baby who needs it more than her! My sister did it with her now 3 year old daughter

Answer 9

okay my son is 17 months old and hasn't used a bottle since he was 12 months. I just took it from him! he uses sippy cups when we are OUT or when we are in a restaurant or the car but if we are at home he just uses a regular cup.

Answer 10

Give the child the bottle less and less every day and introduce the sippy cup slowly. eventually the child will like being big enough to hold his/her own cup like a big kid.