Breaking baby of the bottle.?

Question

Do any moms and dads out there have any tips for the transition from bottle to cup? What age is the best to begin the switch? Thank you.

Answer 1

Let the little one pick out the cups, what ever they like and make a huge deal. It is a big "boy/girl" cup. Also the easiest time to break is during the day. So work on that all day with the cup. When it is time for bed and they are sleeping they always want the comfort of the bottle.

Always use the cups that they picked out. In the car and even bring them with if you go out to eat. That way they always associate the drink with the cup.

I breast feed both until they were one. They would have a supplement bottle now and then. I switched from me to the bottle at 1 and then off the bottle by 1.5. That seemed to work well. I didn't want to stop nursing and then the bottle at the same time. So then at one they can drink milk so that was good.


Good Luck, oh and make sure the cups are spill proof as that will save you allot of cleaning.

Answer 2

A lot of these people are implying that babies use bottles only for ingesting fluids, but they also need the sucking/comfort thing. Give her a bottle in the am and pm. Offer a sippy cup of formula at b,l, and dinner. Do not give her juice unless it is mostly water and a hint of juice. Your child will not go to college with a bottle so don't be in too much of a hurry to give up the cuddle bottle. (the one at bedtime) and pretend the ones during the day don't exist. Most children are off bottles by two.
The best advice for getting them to take a sippy cup is to cover up the air hole on the opposite side of the cup. This way the baby can suck to get the milk (rather than have the milk run in his mouth so fast, because of the air hole, that he feels like he is going to choke.) As he get proficient at it you can uncover the hole. Hope this helps. Enjoy your baby and don't be in too big a hurry. Mine just went to college and I am boo-hooing

Answer 3

as soon as your child is sitting up in the highchair and doing anything at all to feed herself/himself, you should put a sippy cup with good handles on the highchair to assist the child in learning to drink from a cup. That can be a different age for any children. Once your child begins to get a good grasp of being able to "drink" from a cup at three meals a day, then go ahead and transition the rest of the day to cups as well. I am a FULL believer that children should not have bottles and pacifiers past one year old. The purpose of a bottle or pacifier is for the sucking instinct and the ability to "push" their food down by suction. If your one year old does not have the mouth maturity to eat without suction then you need to visit your pediatrician.

Answer 4

Wait till kids are up and moving about, or you are just looking for more washing and cleaning up.
Crawlers are generally fond of turning things upside down and watching the contents dribble down their clothes and on to the carpet.Bottles are the safest option for keeping things tidy around them.
The sippy cup is the safest option to start with.When they get handy at using them,you can dump the lid part and just use the cup itself.Somewhere along the way,lose the bottles too.Children usually stop making a mess with their food and drink when they are old enough to help with the cleaning.Before then,do not expect too much.

Answer 5

my son was 11 months when he started drinking out of a sippy cup.Babies usually make that transition on their own. Try the soft tipped sippy cups first. Sometimes it is hard to get your baby to sleep without a bottle, but just try not to have them available. The baby will get used to the cup if you get rid of the bottles. Hope that helps!

Answer 6

This how I broke my little girl from the bottle to sippy. She was about 12 months old. I took all the bottles in the house and trashed them (this is for your benifit rather than the kids, so you dont give up and just had the bottle over). Then I gave her a sippy. She first refused the sippy and cried for the bottle. I then placed the sippy on the end table and ignored her. She then got the hint that she wasn't going to get her way and then went for the sippy. Worked like a charm fo other things too.

Answer 7

Whatever is his/her favorite drink from the bottle, start putting that in a sippy cup and put only water in the bottle.

I think a baby should be fully weaned from the bottle by age 1, or at the very latest by when they can walk, if that's after 1. I find it annoying to see kids walking around carrying a bottle.

Answer 8

My baby is 6 months old and im trying a 6 month plus cup with him, he doesnt like it very much yet, but trying it wont hurt a thing and i do it at least once a day to see if he will take it more and more a day (ill aventaully get him switched) the cup is made for his age, and all babys are different, so good luck

Answer 9

At 10months i gave my daughter a bottle during the morning at night then gave her a cup the rest of the day. By 11 months so was having the night time bottle by a year old she was all cup. Every mom is different.Best of luck.

Answer 10

At Wilmar they have these cups with a silicone top that is like a bottle but in fact it's a cup, I switched my daughter around 8 months they are the best very inexpensive. They are by Nubi just over a dollar for one. They come even with a straw like top.