When to take away bottles

When did you stop giving milk in a bottle?

My DS just turned 1 and we are transitioning off formula to whole milk. We are still using bottles for now. I am curious when other moms stop using bottles altogether.

When to take away bottles

not fully until 2 I think. We were down to one bottle

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We tried at 1 year and it was a NIGHTMARE.
she was like a drug addict going through withdrawals.
Screaming, writhing, it was horrible.

Gave them back and then at around 15 months one day DH was home with her and just said, ok there are no more bottles- and gave her a cup.
And that was it. She was fine with it.

My advice- wait until they are ready. If you force it, it won't go well

When to take away bottles

We transitioned the night bottle and morning bottle slowly. During the day if she asked for milk it was in a cup with a favorite straw. The night milk is still in a sippy because she likes to be read to and she drinks her milk and she's 2.5. She knows that's her special cup for night time and we brush after its done.

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DD hated milk, so as I transitioned to milk between 12-13 mos., she just naturally gave up the bottle (and the milk...). We just gave lots of other dairy instead

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About 2, and my ped was perfectly fine with that.

When to take away bottles

When she turned 1. For a few weeks before she turned 1 she was so not interested in the bottle anymore. She was barely finishing a full bottle. So we just stopped and went straight to cups.

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Took them away at 1. Introduced a sippy cup at 6 months. Both my DDs took the sippy so easily, but DS took forever to figure it out. At 1 he was still not so into it and I was nervous about ditching the bottles. He complained for like a week or so and then got over it.

When to take away bottles

22 months and she still drinks her milk out of a bottle. She'll drink it on occasion out of a sippy and will always drink water out of a sippy. She can't seem to quit bottles though. If my 4.5 month old didn't drink out of bottles, I think we could have been rid of them already.

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Around 13 months

When to take away bottles

At 9 months, we transitioned to a straw cup since he was refusing bottles. Granted, he's 21 months and still nursing. I'm going to try to wean him at 2 years. Wish me luck, I'm going to need it!

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I transitioned DS at 1 when we made the transition away from formula. He never got milk in a bottle, only cups. We had already been practicing with cups since about 8 months, so he knew them. He was off bottles in 2 weeks, it's been 2 months since he had his last bottle.

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DD was EBF so when she started drinking water at 12 months, we went straight to a sippy. By 17 months she was off the sippy and drinking from a regular cup.

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DD had her milk bottles until at least 2.5 maybe longer. I never understood the reasoning to take them away so young. When she was ready she was ready. She used sippys and regular cups for juice and water but that was a comfort thing for her. She's perfectly normal...and I never discussed it with her pediatrician.

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When she turned one. She actually transitioned off the bottle great.

When to take away bottles

I tried pushing the issue at 11 months with all 3 of them, but for some reason they hated milk in the sippy cup. Only water. I had to gently transition them and sometimes I wasted milk.
13 months for all 3.

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one for DD when we switched to milk by then she wasn't really into formula and she didn't need a bottle to sleep she wasn't taking milk out of the bottle so tried many cups found one that worked and that was it.

For DS basically the same thing just switched right over.

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For DS, we tried a few times but weren't successful until he was 23.5 months old. So literally a week or 2 before he turned 2. I was in no rush. DS hardly drank milk as it was so and refused it in a cup, so I let him has his bottle. I didn't care how he drank his milk, as long as he drank it. At that point he was only drinking bottles when he woke up and before he went to bed. Day care would give him milk in a cup during the day, but he wouldn't drink it at home like that.

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The pediatrician told me to take them away at 1 yr... I tried. He just isn't taking to the sippy cup. So I've just continued the routine that is working for us and figured he'd give them up when he's ready. After reading this post I guess I just have to do it.

When to take away bottles

Around 2.5yo for DS. My ped said no rush, as long as they're off by 3. I will say, he never lingered with a bottle, he'd sit and drink it all down at once then be done with it. Never carried it around with him. No teeth issues.

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My son gave them up on his own at 10 months, he never really liked bottles from the get go so giving them up and going over to a sippy was easy for him.

We took our daughters bottle away cold turkey at 17 months. She protested for a day or two but then quickly got over it. IMO, cold turkey is best. It's easier to do all of nothing.

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When to take away bottles

Honestly my dd was after 2. I was still giving a bottle only at bedtime then she got a cold and couldnt have milk so that was the last time she had a bottle.
As long as she ate her food during the day I wasnt crazy about cutting her bottle at a specific age. I also know my dd she was slowly cutting back on the bottle herself and when shes done shes done. I never got caught up in forcing her before she was ready. If she was finding comfort in her bottle I was ok with that. She was drinking from cups from 1. And at 2 she was down to 1 bottle.
do it when your DC is ready. Transition 1 thing at a time in my opinion...

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15 months old

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All have been after 2 - they don't walk around with a bottle and it was the only way they would drink milk. My older 2 have not touched milk since the bottle disappeared 4 years ago.