I always heard 14 months after they had cut the first flat top molar was the time, but now I hear about babies being weaned at 9 months. So what's the average?
2006-09-26 05:07:59 · 16 answers · asked by ? 6 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
I am seeing this question being interpreted two ways: weaning from the bottle itself and weaning from formula or breastmilk. As far as weaning from formula or breastmilk, the baby should be at least a year old and nutrition should be discussed with your pediatrician.
I interpret this question to be when do you take the plastic bottle away and give them a tippy cup instead. Most babies begin to have success with a tippy cup around nine months old and the use of bottles can be phased out starting then. All children are different, my older son could use a tippy cup at 4 months old (he was breastfed until 15 months, he had bits of juice and water in the cup for fun), my younger son couldn't get the hang of it until closer to nine months. What you heard about the 14 months after the molar appears was a suggestion by the ADA to prevent children who use pacifiers from damaging tooth development (recent research indicates that most children will stop using pacifiers before intervention is necessary sometime around 5-6 years old). If your child can use a tippy cup, phase out use of the bottle by "misplacing it" or just putting it away for awake times and using it at resting times before naps and bed (children should never be sent to bed with a bottle). Once your child doesn't seem to miss the bottle during awake/play times and meal times, lose it at naptime. Finally ditch the bottle once and for all at bedtime. Some children need transitions to be slow and some do just fine if you pack all the bottles up and send them to "the new babies". Letting your child choose tippy cups and participate in choosing what is in them (within reason) will help to make it seem like more of an adventure and priviliege and less like a forced surrender.
Hope that helps
2006-09-26 05:38:58 · answer #1 · answered by Huggles-the-wise 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My daughter weaned from it on her very own around 2.5. I had tried weaning her early, met with resistance, and desperate it wasn't that vast of deal to enable her shop it. It wasn't approximately being a pushover, it become approximately no longer turning a situation into something hectic to her that i did no longer could. infants who breastfeed self wean often after age 2, so no vast deal. She weaned in a pair of day. Nuby makes a sippy cup resembling a bottle. I in no way discovered a thoroughly spill evidence sippy cup and can attempt to grant my daughter water each and every time she had a beverage able the place i did no longer want to could freshen up a large number. some breastfed infants do properly transitioning promptly to an open cup, yet with a bottlefed toddler, i don't be attentive to. you may try it.
2016-10-18 00:23:06 · answer #2 · answered by hosford 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I weaned my little guy at around 9 months. I started giving him sippy cups with soft spouts so the transition was not so harsh, I only gave him a bottle before bed, and worked my way from there. Personally i think it looks gross when you see a child say "I want my bottle". If they are old enough to say that, take it away! It shows laziness in the parents I think. Sure it's easier to just give them a bottle instead of saying no, but what happened to the best interests of your kids?
2006-09-26 06:09:24 · answer #3 · answered by fusillicandace 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I started weaning my daughter from bottles around 1 year old, just because she was also weaned from breast feeding, and I showed her sippy cups and stuff, to be a big girl. She did not want the bottles if she could be big girl.
She sometimes asks for a bottle now, (she's 2) but just for fun.
2006-09-26 05:57:01 · answer #4 · answered by kackaway 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I personally started to cut back on bottles at 7 months with my son. He was learning to use a sippy cup at meal times so I started only giving him a bottle a few times a day. By the time he was 12 months and we needed to switch to cow's milk instead of formula we just phased out the last bottle and used a sippy cup.
2006-09-26 08:25:53 · answer #5 · answered by totspotathome 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wean a child by 12 or 13 months or it will be difficult after that. With sippy cups, ,weaning is easier.
2006-09-26 05:26:38 · answer #6 · answered by Wiser1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i don't have any kids yet but my niece's dr told my sister-in-law that she should be off the bottle by 1 year. I also work in a day care center and that's when most of the kids there get weaned from the bottle
2006-09-26 05:11:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi,
Don't have to worry,we can't make baby suddenly to change the habit.Just for a day try to give in cup if he/she like it or drink atleast 1/2 cup that's a good sign for first stage.Then,gradually u can see the difference.
Average :1 1/2 +age
2006-09-26 05:34:59 · answer #8 · answered by mom 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I got my daughter 100% on milk when she was 1 year old. about a month or so after she turned 1, she didn't want anything to do with the bottle (luck there), so I cleaned them up and got them out of sight. You might want to start putting the milk in a sippy cup instead and just getting the bottles out of sight.
2006-09-26 05:13:00 · answer #9 · answered by jevic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it would be 9 months because you are supposed to give them formula or breastmilk until they are one year. I think it is up to you. So many people are so opinionated about this kind of stuff. Do what feels right for you and don't let anyone disscourage you. I've had 2 kids and my son had a bottle before bed til he was over 2 (I got a lot of bad feedback from that!) but he is fine and so are his teeth!!!!
My daughter got sick around one year old so I took her off all dairy and that got rid of the bottle. It worked out perfect.
2006-09-26 05:12:40 · answer #10 · answered by butterfliesbrown 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋