weaning off bottle

sarahtena

How do you wean a child off of the bottle? Any and all ideas methods and suggestions welcome.

posted May 4, 2007 - 10:46pm

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happiestmommy wrote 1 year 29 weeks ago

What a friend of mine did was told her daughter was that there was a new baby that needed her bottles and asked her if she could give them to the baby. She agreed and them packed them up in a box, took them to the post office and shipped them to a family member. After that she didn't even ask for it. My son had no problem switching, I just handed him a cup and that was it!

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shelmo wrote 1 year 22 weeks ago

Our pediatrician recommended between 12-18 months old to start putting water in the bottle and offer other things in the sippy cups. Ethan would just drink the water instead of the sippy cups, so we went cold turkey. We just stopped offering the bottle, put them all up out of sight, and offered him a sippy cup when he was thirsty. After 2 days he was fine with it (really sooner than that) - he was really easy to wean, I know some children still need that before-bed bottle, but after 2 fussy nights he was okay.

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Maffewmama1008 wrote 1 year 22 weeks ago

I am having such a problem with this. My son is 20-months old and have only been doing it religiously for 2 days. He still gets his morning bottle and bedtime. Its just so hard because he looks so miserable, and its hard to take because I feel like such a mean mommy.. its for his own good, but still its hard on me. Sad face