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weaning from bottle
Does anybody have any insight they might like to offer on how to go about doing this? We finally found a sippy that the kid likes and have only given him water in it, since I'm not a fan of all of the sugar in juice. We haven't started giving him WCM yet, although I probably will this weekend, cutting some of his bottles with it.
Re: weaning from bottle
I did cold turkey with all my kids. They were comfortable with the sippy cup prior to a year old, used it at meals with water. I started giving half formula half cow's milk in the bottle, then eventually all milk (this was over maybe a two week span). Then, in a fit of rage one day, i just threw away all the bottles. seriously. i was so tired of washing them, they were driving me crazy. I knew the kid would drink from the sippy cup and by keeping the bottle feedings was only prolonging it, felt like it was more for me than her. She did fine from day one with a sippy of milk.
Also, I remember with the boys, they weren' a huge fan of cow's milk at first, so I did a little mixology to get different flavors. Of course check with your pedi first, but I mixed flavored soy milk or almond milk in with cow milk to change the flavor. David actually only drank vanilla soy milk for about a year (that stuff was impossible to find ten years ago!) Sometimes I do it with Anna now too, she loves loves loves almond milk so sometimes she will get it half and half
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I would also play around with the temperature. DS would only drink out of a bottle if it was warm and a sippy if it was cold. Apparently, at some point, he got it in his head that sippy cups were only for cold things and would balk at breast or wc milk warm out of a sippy.
We also taught him to cheers with a sippy and he thought it was hilarious so he liked them better because he could cheers.
Good luck!
We kind of did it slowly and got to the point where it was a bottle in the morning and a night bottle with all cups during the day. Then we started knocking the morning bottle out giving her a cup with breakfast and then the same later at night. One day she just was off the bottles no problem. It was like an out of sight, out of mind type thing for D. As long as you were giving her food of some sort, she didn't care what it was in. She still calls her cup "baa-baa" though.
I also did the milk ratio like Kelly did and the temp thing like Ering did. When we switched to WCM, I warmed it up a bit to make it about room temp because she wasn't used to getting ice cold liquid before. I slowly transitioned her to cold milk and now I just pour it in the cup and give it right to her. Easy peasy.
Babies don't need juice anyway so don't worry about that. Milk and water are the only things they should be drinking. Not even apple juice.
Around 6 months we introduced the sippy cup though she didn't know how to really work it she was at least getting used it so at one year, she was completely comfortable with the sippy cup.
I started dropping one bottle at a time and was finally left with just one in the morning and one at night. I dropped the morning and about a week later dropped it at night. I was actually surprised that she didn't miss it at.all. I clearly was more panicked than she was, lol. I did give less and less formula and more milk but found she had a very bad sensitivity so just switched over to water. In order to compensate we upped her food and dairy uptake so she wasn't hungry going to bed. It really worked well for Ava she was off the bottle by her first birthday.
We went cold turkey at a year to no detriment. We introduced straw sippy cups and regular sippy cups earlier. She didn't even notice or miss the bottle. I personally don't put milk in the straw sippers though bc I feel like there are too many spots for milk to get caught and I can't get them clean enough. So we use regular sippers for milk and straw cups for water.