off the bottle?

Question

how old was your baby when he/she was completly weaned of the bottle?

our son will be 1 next friday. he absolutly WILL NOT drink his milk outa a sippy. He will, however, drink his juice outa a sippy no problem... so he is capable of using it, he just wont. I feel so bad because I feel like his feeding times are part of our bonding time.

i forgot to mention that i do give him a sippy cup of milk with his meals... no luck there either. the sippy cup is just thrown to the floor! :)

Answer 1

At one year - I introduced the cup around 9-10 months, it took a month or so for them to really get it, then around one I stopped the bottle completey.
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Edit - after reading your additional details - if he'll take the sippy, and if you want him off the bottle, then try to gradually introduce more milk in the sippy. Like offer it at every meal, and if he doesn't take any, and you think he needs it, then give him the bottle. But what I say is this - SCREW what the AAP says, and other mothers, and everyone who says that kids need to be off the bottle at one! If you love the feeding/bonding time, and you feel he's not ready to give up the bottle, then don't give it another thought. When he's ready to give it up, he will, whether that be in a week or when he's 2. :)

Answer 2

My daughter had one bottle when she was 7 months. My son never had a bottle. They both stated using sippy cups at about 10 months.

Answer 3

he was about 7 months when he weaned himself off the bottle and not long after weaned himself off formula... it was his choice and i did nothing to encourage it other than to give him a sippy cup when he didn't want the bottle anymore, and to give him whole milk when he started spitting up the formula all the time and refusing to drink it... i had started giving him juice at about 6 months but i would give it to him in a sippy instead of his bottle that way he would know the differance and i guess he wanted the sippy all the time thinking if he didn't have his bottle than he would always get juice, he loved his juice as soon as i started giving it to him, but i still kept a few bottles around that way i could use the measurments to mix his formula and than i would just pour the formula into his sippy cup, after a while he started spitting the formula back up and than after so much of that he wouldn't take it to so I started giving him milk that way he would still get the viatmins he needed... his doctor said if he didn't want it and was spitting it up when he did take it than it was fine for me to give him milk and that i shouldnt try to force feed him the formula because he was spitting it up so he wouldnt get as much as he needed, and that him using the sippy early was fine to as long as he wasn't choking on it, my friend now is trying to switch her son, and buys bottles for him that have changable tops that way the holes are still smaller than a sippy cups but bigger than a bottles and she can switch them when he's ready... i think they're working really well if you want to try to switch yours over you could try that

Answer 4

10 months. I started introducing the cup as soon as they can hold the bottle. They all walked around 10 months too.

Answer 5

I finally got my daughter off at 17 months, but my sister is still having problems with her son who is over 2 (our husbands both believe that they should have the bottle as long as they want- men are such idiots sometimes).

Answer 6

um... 2 1/2. Bring on the thumbs down!

But he was breast fed for 2 yrs, so it was a pretty quick transition from breast to bottle to cup!