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ok two questions
1. Almost 1 yr-old time to wean from the bottle how do i start????? im lost and i think its the most difficult thing since giving birth
2. any of you have tried the next step on formulas which is better??? we want to try one but we are lost too
any tips PLEASE
you might not like my opinion…
who cares about bottles? I mean the actual drinking from a bottle…I think our society is way too hung up on the whole sucking thing! so what if a 12month old drinks from a bottle? what if you were breastfeeding? I am still breastfeeding my 15 month old. It’s just one time a day (5am; I am way too lazy to go give him a bottle/sippy and he’ll go back to sleep until 7am, but I’m on the verge/cusp of weaning him not that I need to explain, lol) , but that could be seen as a bottle a day at 15 months old…and I breastfed jonah until 15 months (same scenario).My niece had a bottle a day until she was really ‘old’ (probably about 3yrs old ) so that’s ‘extreme.’ She’s almost 5yrs old now and FINE. No orthadontic issues, no other issues. I’m not sure I would tell anyone to let it go on as long as it did with her, but hey, to each their own!anyway my point is to do what you feel is right and to really think about why you’re deciding to have your baby give up the bottle at 12 months old…is it because the dr told you? because ‘they say?’ is it because friends & family are pressuring you? OR, is it that your baby isn’t showing as much interest in the bottle anymore and it’s a ‘natural’ process he’s going through?food for thought….ps: edited to add that I’m SO not ranting at YOU!!!!I just got on my soapbox, said my spiel, and hopped right off
hellbennt2007-10-20 21:21:36
ok here is the thing he has like 5 bottles a day or somedays more
he just likes it that much i was working on taking away the morning one and it was working well till he got sick (cold) now he wants his bottle almost every 4-5 hrs nways i like the slowly approach and i guess one day he’ll be more interested in food than in bottles.We actually found that the nighttime bottle was the hardest for us to drop – and honestly, Owen STILL has a sippy cup of milk at bedtime so I guess that probably means he hasn’t really dropped it still. And he’s almost 3.
At 15 months we had him down to just morning and night bottles. We were worried about the morning one since we used to always give Owen a bottle right when he would wake up first thing. We were really nervous about changing that but thought that the easiest thing for us to do was to bring him downstairs and feed him breakfast instead – whether it was cereal, or egg yolks, or something else that he liked at that point. We had to make sure it was ready before going to get him, so we’d come down, prep the food, then grab him from the crib and bring him downstairs to eat his breakfast. First thing in the morning he was so hungry he didn’t really care which way he got to eat – just as long as he got something. So that went very smoothly. Solids were always so much easier for Owen though – I don’t think he was ever 100% comfortable with drinking from his bottle so it may have been easier for us than if he really likes drinking from bottles.
We still gave him his bedtime bottle until 18 months. Then we switched to a sippy and he seriously could have cared less – we were much more upset about it than he was!!!
Good luck!
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