Moms of Toddlers

cherrys · March 2011

Does your LO still take a bottle?

If not, when did you start weaning off of bottles?

Levi gets 3 bottles a day. And I rock him to sleep while he drinks his bedtime bottle. I need some advice on starting to wean him to sippies of milk. I think this weekend, I'm going to start giving his mid afternoon bottle in his sippy...but should i give it to him while he eats his lunch? Normally he gets a sippy of water with his meals.

rbagsgirl · March 2011

The Pediatrician told us Josh should be off bottles by 15 months and he was basically off them by 13 as he would rather drink out of a cup anyway...I would start with the mid afternoon bottle and then work your way to the night time one...If I remember correctly Josh's morning bottle was the last to go. I have no real advice on how to make it easier as Josh was an easy one to break...

reps14 · March 2011

We got him completely converted a couple of months ago (so probably closer to 18 months) but we were the stumbling block - not him. We just hadn't found the right cup yet. So after maybe 14 months, he only got a bottle if we ran out of clean sippys and were too lazy to clean one! Now that we've stocked up, he's on all sippys.

We changed the afternoon milk first, and I think the nighttime one last. We didn't have any issues, though. And he was on all sippys before he started sleeping in his own bed, and didn't have a bottle with his bedtime routine so I can't help there.

Mrs.Keith2B · March 2011

Brody just recently dropped his afternoon bottle. I had a really hard time getting him to drink anything out of a sippy until around his 1 year birthday. Between then and now he's been drinking water or diluted juice out of a sippy at all snack and meal times. Just in the past few weeks I dropped his afternoon bottle and now he gets a sippy w/ milk during lunch. He hasn't been drinking much of it, but I'm not too worried because he gets plenty of dairy through cheese and yogurt every day.

He does still get a morning and bed-time bottle, but that's more because it's easier for me. I think the morning bottle will be the one that is dropped first, as he could easily drink milk from a sippy before we head to day care (where he eats his real breakfast). The bed-time bottle will be more difficult to break, as he loves his cuddle time after his bath and right before he goes to bed. I do plan on talking to my pedi at his 15 month appointment in a few weeks.

cherrys · March 2011

reps14:

We just hadn't found the right cup yet. Levi isn't very picky when it comes to sippys, but I like the Playtex ones.

Now that we've stocked up, he's on all sippys. Levi has 2 sippys. When you say you stocked up, how many do you have? I'm assuming I should get aleast one more.

And he was on all sippys before he started sleeping in his own bed. Levi has slept in his own bed from day 1 and if I put him down drowsy most times he'll talk himself to sleep.

and didn't have a bottle with his bedtime routine so I can't help there. I guess I could give up the rocking to sleep part of his routine...it's just for my satisfaction.....

reps14 · March 2011

cherrys:
reps14:

We just hadn't found the right cup yet. Levi isn't very picky when it comes to sippys, but I like the Playtex ones. We love the playtex ones, too. Patrick turns his bottle upside down and shakes it to try to get the milk out, and these don't leak! We've tried at least 8 different types of cups.

Now that we've stocked up, he's on all sippys. Levi has 2 sippys. When you say you stocked up, how many do you have? I'm assuming I should get aleast one more. We wash everything in the dishwasher (every other day), and he needs 3-4/day, so we have about 8. We took advantage of a BOGO sale at target on the 2packs a few weeks ago - keep your eyes ope for that!

And he was on all sippys before he started sleeping in his own bed. Levi has slept in his own bed from day 1 and if I put him down drowsy most times he'll talk himself to sleep. Lucky! We bedshared up until a month or so ago, and it's still hit or miss.

and didn't have a bottle with his bedtime routine so I can't help there. I guess I could give up the rocking to sleep part of his routine...it's just for my satisfaction..... nothing wrong with doing that for you - one of the reasons we bedshared for so long was for my comfort. The transition was harder on me than him. Do you think he'd adapt to the rocking part without the bottle?

rcsbride · March 2011

I went cold turkey with bottles during the day. I just took them away and offered sippy cups only. I started this at about 13 months. He does still get his bottle at night before he goes to bed and I will probably keep that one until he starts eating better at night so he doesn't wake up hungry in the middle of the night. So now I give him milk with breakfast, lunch and dinner and then a sippy of juice (1/2 juice, 1/2 water) or plain water throughout the day or with snacks.

cherrys · March 2011

reps14:
cherrys:
reps14:

and didn't have a bottle with his bedtime routine so I can't help there. I guess I could give up the rocking to sleep part of his routine...it's just for my satisfaction..... nothing wrong with doing that for you - one of the reasons we bedshared for so long was for my comfort. The transition was harder on me than him. Do you think he'd adapt to the rocking part without the bottle?

I think. These past few nights he drinks his bottle dry, but is not content, so he snuggles in and I rock and pat him to sleep.

SugarhillHnA · March 2011

Mariela isn't technically a toddler for another week and a half, but I am going to be home with her from next Wed through Mon and I plan to do away with bottles and possibly even daytime nursings at this time. She never takes bottles at our house as I nurse directly. She only gets them at MIL's house, so I don't think she's that attached to them. She already drinks water out of a sippy and isn't a fan of BM in the sippy, but that's what I plan on offering her until my freezer stash is out (I'm going to donate 200oz and even still prob won't have to give her whole milk until she's 13mo). I want to keep her on BM as long as possible due to her anemia.

I will start next Wed offering her milk in a cup at meals and snacks. I think she'll be a casual sipper and not chug it all at once. As that's kind of what she's been during the day with her bottles while I'm at work. My concern is that she just maintain what she's currently drinking in milk (around 15-18oz a day). I will still nurse her before bed at night and 1st thing in the AM as long as she wants, but she's actually been taking less and less at night recently, so I don't think that will be much longer. She takes the most milk at her 1st morning feed, so that will be the last to go.

GL Mama! I'm scared of weaning from the paci...do you have to do that, too? When do you plan to?

CTri17 · March 2011

yes because Lucy is still nursing....if I try to give her BM in a sippy she won't drink it (but will drink smoothies/water) so I think she just associates breastmilk with bottles/breast.

I'm ok keeping her on it a bit longer

I'd do milk at a separate time let him have water with lunch.

I've heard great success with just doing ALL at once and putting the bottles away. But I obviously haven't tried that

cherrys · March 2011

SugarhillHnA:

Mariela isn't technically a toddler for another week and a half.

Levi isn't techanically a toddler for another month, but the way he walks and babbles, you'd think he was one now!

I'm scared of weaning from the paci...do you have to do that, too? Yes, but he's been weaning himself lately. Ever since his four top teeth really came in, he doesn't bother with it for long periods of time.

When do you plan to? I'm working on it now, he can go most of the day without it. There are two that float around the house that he can grab whenever he wants. I only offer it to him after he finishes a bottle, if he's not quite asleep, or when we go in the car.

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