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BR: Weaning from the bottles to the sippy
Our pedi said we should work on removing her two daytime bottles (she has 4; morning, midmorning, afternoon, evening) between 11-12 months. And I'm guessing after 12 months we'll work on weaning the morning/evening bottles (weaning/removing I mean just give her formula in a sippy instead of a bottle.
Now my question(s): Will she continue to have 4 sippies of milk/formula a day for awhile? A what point will milk not be a main part of her diet and she won't need it as much anymore?
Also-G loves sippies, all kinds! The problem is she hates milk or formula from a sippy. I've tried giving her organic soy milk from a sippy and she wouldn't drink it-but drinks water fine. I'm just going to let her lead the bottle weaning but I'm thinking weaning the bottle is not going to be easy. (This week I've tried doing a sippy for midmorning-she drinks about 2-3 oz for about an hour+ and then I finally give in and give her a bottle)
Anyone just do it cold turkey at 12 months for all bottles? Is that easier? When did my baby get so big!? How can she be 11 months in 2 days?!?!?!
Re: BR: Weaning from the bottles to the sippy
We were giving Leo 4 sippies of milk a day for the longest time. I think it was around 13 or 14 months that we cut down to just 3 because he was eating 3 meals a day with us (the same food as us) and having two snacks (that's probably why my kid is HUGE!).
Around 10 months we started mixing milk and formula, very small at first, 2oz of milk to 6oz of formula then gradually progressing. At 12 months we quit giving formula at all. I was sooo ready to be done w/ formula...that stuff is EXPENSIVE!!
For the switch to sippies, I know we just bought our main "stash" of sippies in November, so he was around 15 months when he went to sippies full time.
I have no answers at all, because we are still trying to figure out the transition...
Z had some stomach issues right after we switchd from formula to milk, so we went back to formula. We're phasing milk back in this week, because we think the stomach trouble may have just been from a virus and/or effects of her MMR shot that seemed to bother her... Guess we'll see how this week goes.
She just won't get excited about the sippy like she is about bottles. I told DH that I think we need to go cold turkey on the bottles this week, but we worry about her not getting enough fluids when we tried that before... Agh. It's hard to know what to do.
We were down to 2 bottles a day at around 10 months, C then also got 2 sippys of formula in between. Then we switched to one and only had the morning bottle. Then at 11 months he went off of all of the bottles and only had sippys. At 1 year we switched the formula to milk and never looked back. He never seemed to mind quitting a bottle, I think we could have done it cold turkey and been just as successful.