As of right now, my daughter has three meals each day. She gets breakfast around 7am, lunch around noon, and dinner around 5. She eats all table food or Gerber Graduates if we are eating something not appropirate for a baby. She gets her drinks (water, diluted juice, or milk) from sippy cups with her meals and does great.
She gets two 8oz bottles during the day as snacks. one around 10 and the other around 2:30. Then she has an 8oz bottle at 7:30pm and goes to bed at 8.
My question is how exactly do I cut back on bottles from here? Her doc already allows her to have whole milk, which she usually just has with dinner. So do I eliminate one bottle completley and replace it with a snack/milk sippy? Or cut both bottles down to 4oz and give small snacks with each? And when should her daytime bottles be replaced with sippy cups?
I am okay with her night bottle and have decided that will be the last to go, but what about the others?
2007-02-04 10:16:06 · 7 answers · asked by ShellyLynn 5 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
My doctor told me not to force the child to lose the bottle its their comfort. Three bottles a day for a ten mth old is great. Shes doing really good. If you want to cut her of the bottle by the time she is 1 than cut her down to two if she seems cranky cuse the 3rd was cut out give it back to her. try one day with the two bottles and see how she does than. if she does good than continue with the two bottles. slowly cut the bottles down with sippy cups. the last bottle that should go is the one at bedtime. good luck.
2007-02-04 10:21:45 · answer #1 · answered by Momof4beautifulGirls! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You said she already knows how to use a sippy so it shouldn't be a problem because she's already use to it. I'd just say giver her sippys all day and leave the one bottle at night. I did that with my 9 month old son he never minded the change.
2007-02-04 10:25:01 · answer #2 · answered by island_chick21 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would replace one at a time with a healthy snack and something in her sippy cup. Let the nite one be the last. i had my son off the bottle at 12 months excatly. that's when he started sleeping all night.
2007-02-04 11:06:16 · answer #3 · answered by cinnycinda 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would just have the night time bottle... a sippy cup should be fine for the rest of the day.
2007-02-04 10:20:06 · answer #4 · answered by naenae0011 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont know. Lois is trying to decrease the number of bottles i drink a day. I said to Hell with that! If anything i need a increase!
2007-02-04 10:40:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ask her doctor. Or slowly cut back each bottle by an oz or two and see how she does.
2007-02-04 10:21:27 · answer #6 · answered by MichelleLynn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My pediatrician said to reduce the intake by one ounce at a time
2007-02-04 10:42:09 · answer #7 · answered by CookFrNW 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋