How soon did you take your baby off bottles?

Question

With my first daughter I took her off her bottle at 1 1/2 years and that was easy because she liked her sippy cup. My youngest is ten months and she is showing signs of being very attached to her bottles. She even wakes up in the middle of the night for a bottle still. She likes her sippy cup but prefers a bottle. So, in other parents experience when is a good age to take bottles away? When did you do it? How hard is it with a baby who is attached to the bottle like a pacifier?

Answer 1

My daughter is 15 months old and she still likes a bottle when she's sleepy so right now we give it to her. At 18 months we will be throwing the bottles away and letting her watch so she can tell them bye-bye. At 10 months she shouldn't be night feeding so if you take that bottle away she'll sleep through the night in a few days once her tummy is re-trained. I work with infants and as long as the bottle is completely gone by 2 years old then everything's fine. Past that age it can cause tooth decay because of the way the milk pool's around the child's teeth. Good luck.

Answer 2

As a mother of 4 I can tell you no 2 kids are the same. My first would never take a bottle or pacifier. The other 3 were a different story, but if at 10 months she is drinking from her sippy cup keep using the cup at meals and during the day, allow her to have a bottle before bed and nap time but not while sleeping, sleeping with a bottle can cause damage to the teeth. By the time she is about 1 1/2 she will most likely have given it up as long as you slowly cut her time with it.

Answer 3

Make the bottle less appealing instead of milk, formula or juice.. only fill the bottle with water... If she needs a night time feeding give her the feeding in the sippy cup..

Don't let her run around with the bottle if she wants to drink out of it make her sit at the table while drinking... If she gets up gentle take the bottle and say "I am going to put this at the table if you want to drink from it you have to sit at the table." She will test you... remain calm and repeat the sentence she will get the new routine pretty quickly if you keep it up... Having her sit at the table will stop her from playing and she will start spending less time with the bottle very quickly...

Replace the nipple on the bottle witha very small hole nipple making it more difficult for her to suck out the contents...

If you use all these methods she will quickly decide the sippy cup is the way to go... She will be able to get away from the table more quickly and play, the sippy cup has the good stuff (milk, juice) while the bottle has only water, and the sippy cup delivers the drink more quickly than the small hole nipple on the bottle.....

With kids alot of things are about making the choice you want them to make the most appealing.... And they will choose it...

Answer 4

I took my son off of the bottle at about 11 months. I had to start using sippys that have a tip that is like a bottle and started weening him like that. my son was never attached to a pacifier. but try to use that method I hope this helps you in any way

Answer 5

On my daughters 1st birthday. Her and I threw all her bottles away and went and bought her all new sippys that she picked out.
She was very attached to her bottle, but making it like a little celebration, I think made it easier on her.

Answer 6

Every child is different. The doctor I had suggested weaning my children off a bottle before they were a year old. The longer you wait to break them, the harder it is. Both of my children were hard to break, but once they (pacifiers and bottles) were removed from the home, the quicker it was over. You just have to have a lot of patience and be consistent. Don't give in.

Good luck with your baby.

Answer 7

THE OLDER SHE GETS THE HARDER IT WILL BE TO REMOVE THE BOTTLE. I HAVE A SON 13 M WHO IS ATTACHED TO BREASTFEEDING, AS IF IT WERE A BOTTLE. I AM PERSONALLY TRYING TO DECREASE GRADUALLY THE FEEDINGS HOPING TO ELIMINATE THEM. I AM ALSO INCREASING MORE SIPPY CUP USAGE IN THE MEANWHILE.

START NOW WEANING THE BOTTLE USAGE AND HOPEFULLY BY 12 MOS OR SHORTLY AFTER THE SIPPY CUP WILL REPLACE IT.

Answer 8

it extremely is much less stressful to do it earlier you hit the poor twos. in case you wait til then, i think of you run the threat of entering right into a conflict of wills with your 2-12 months-old who's desperate to have issues their very own way. different than the dental damages of snoozing with a bottle, i can not think of of the different reason. I went forward and commenced my son on a usual cup (no longer a sippy cup) at approximately 5 months (with my counsel for sure). He did no longer quite look to techniques the swap at that factor. i do no longer think of i replaced into lazy for doing it. I purely traded the aggravation of cleansing bottles for the aggravation of having to handle helping him drink from a cup. That extremely did no longer make him from now on "stronger" than the different toddler. (he's 3 and we nevertheless have no progression on the potty front.) although, it did eliminate one component to be concerned approximately later. And impressive now, smack dab interior the path of the poor twos, whilst each and every thing is a potential conflict, i'm happy we are no longer scuffling with over a bottle or sippy cup. (maximum daycares around right here won't enable 3 12 months olds drink from the two so we would could desire to have the combat.)

Answer 9

i started letting my kids only have it at night not to sleep with but to comfort them before bedtime at 11 months by 16 months it was gone. You take it away a little at a time. My daughter never took a pacifier my son did he was 2 before we could get rid of that contraption.

Answer 10

I took my daughter's bottle away @ 12 months. I figured we'd have a few long, tearful nights. But, honestly, it wasn't that bad. She adjusted w/ in a few days.