Hi I am interested in when people start to bottle break there little ones. And then again at what age they were completly bottle broke?
2007-09-30 13:53:47 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
First - 18 months...it became a battle, got him off it at 20 months.
Second - 13 months...easy peasy.
2007-09-30 14:14:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I started introducing a sippy cup to my son around 10 months and by the time he was 1 he was completly off the bottle.
2007-09-30 20:57:13 · answer #2 · answered by Victory 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My daughter was not taking a bottle anymore around one year. By that time they can hold a sippy just fine. I just started replacing a bottle with a sippy at each meal time. After a year it becomes more of a comforting habit and it can be hard to break if you wait too long.
2007-09-30 21:05:16 · answer #3 · answered by nunemak 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I both nursed and gave my daughter a bottle. At about 9 months, I started offering formula in a sippy cup. It wasn't very well received most of the time, but we just kept offering it two or three times a day. Eventually, we found a cup that she liked, and she started drinking from it. We still also used the bottle and nursed her, but she started drinking from the cup more and more. I paid very close attention, and noticed that she was more and more willing to drink from the cup, so I started offering that to her instead of the bottle, but we still nursed first thing in the AM and right before bed (I imagine you can substitute the bottle at those times). By the time she was almost 1 year old, she was just drinking from the cup and I just stopped offering to nurse her. She hardly seemed to notice! (It killed me, but it was good for her. I just miss it!) :)
Hope this helps.
2007-09-30 21:02:18 · answer #4 · answered by MACgirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I started at 12 months and I think she was completely off the bottle in a few months. The last night time bottle was the hardest for us to give up.
2007-09-30 20:56:28 · answer #5 · answered by Laura H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all let me say that I would NEVER recommend way of getting her off the night bottle.
But
we started with whole milk, watered down juice ect in sippy cups and formula only in Bottles. My plan was to take her completely off the bottle at 12 months, and let her keep her night bottle as long as she wanted. I always brushed her teeth before she went to bed, so there was no real issues with the night time one. she was easy to let her bottles go during the day since the only thing she ever had in them was formula.
so 2 days after she turns 1 we are doing great. no bottles all day, one bottle before bed with that Enfamil Next Step in it. then, on the third day, doesn't she trip over her own adorable feet and bite through her tongue. it was not serious, but it bled like you would not believe. she could not drink out of a bottle with that gash in her tongue. by the time she healed it had been 3 days and she had forgotten all about the night time bottle, so we just gave them away. she has never seen a bottle since.
She actually went easy on the cold turkey approach (and not just because of a wound that bled profusely). she had her sippy cup of milk and liked it just fine. she never noticed the difference, even on that first night.
I would say wean down giving only formula bottles. get them used to a sippy cup before they are off the bottle, so they never even miss it.
2007-09-30 21:45:31 · answer #6 · answered by ShellyLynn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I started weaning my daughter of the bottle close to her first birthday, and three weeks after she turned 1, she was completley off the bottle. She transitioned to a sippy cup easily.
But I know alot of children who took longer.
2007-09-30 20:58:51 · answer #7 · answered by bigsis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, my son was breastfed, so he never took a bottle. He just started taking diluted juice and water in a sippy when he was 6 months old. However, my nieces and nephews were formula fed, and they were usually weaned at 12 months.
2007-09-30 20:57:46 · answer #8 · answered by SoBox 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
at my son's 1 year appt (he was 1 year and 1 week), the doctor said stop giving him a bottle & that was that. He never got one again. He never even noticed, he preferred the sippy cup.
2007-09-30 23:10:19 · answer #9 · answered by njyecats 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About a year. Gave her sippy cups. Took away the binky. So long as she was filled up, my baby was happy. Except with spinach.
TX Mom
not an expert
2007-09-30 20:58:49 · answer #10 · answered by TX Mom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
TRIED at 10 months to no avail. Again at 13 months, and my son got better. He has been on the cup ONLY since 16 months old.
2007-09-30 21:15:26 · answer #11 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋