I want her off the darned bottle already (how? BTDT Moms?)Updated new ques pg1

when can we start doing this in earnest and how?

I give her the sippy cup when she's fussy now and she drinks fine from it and drinks a LOT from it (yeah!) when she's in the mood. She's good at holding her own bottle too.

Im sorry I think I sound crazy but i want her off that stupid bottle NOW! NOW! NOW! I look at her cute teethy smile and my heart cringes when she opens her mouth for that bottle.

am i crazy
what have you done?

TIA

ETA: and good or bad but my hubby lets her use a straw (not sure why this bothers me) to drink from his cup. My aunt gives her drink directly out of a small cup and she doesnt make a huge mess (bonus) and loves it, but didnt know how to handle the cup.

Message edited 8/28/2009 6:08:24 PM.

Re: I want her off the darned bottle already (how? BTDT Moms?)

I got my DS off the bottle cold turkey right before he turned a year old. LIke you, I gave him water from a sippy with a straw, never gave him water in a bottle. For like three days it was torture, but he realized he wasn't getting the bottle again. Oh, and I hid them all so he couldn't see/find them. Good luck!

Re: I want her off the darned bottle already (how? BTDT Moms?)

Nothing wrong with a straw at this age, so if she likes that, go for it.

Since she just turned a year old, if she still loves the bottle, be prepared for a battle. But you can just stop offering them.

Be prepared that it might mess up any routine she might have that's associated with the bottle as well.

Just as a sidenote....right after Lily turned a year, she started drinking less bottles...and then around 15 or 16 months, she just stopped taking her last nighttime bottle. No fight, no fuss, no issues. It was actually really easy.

Re: I want her off the darned bottle already (how? BTDT Moms?)

we stopped cold turkey. My ped said he wasnt a fan of weaning it b/c they aren't going to understand that sometimes they get it and sometimes they dont.

First I got her used to the milk by putting that in the bottle. (I started with 50% formula, then 50% milk) Once she was drinking the milk from the bottle, I just stopped the bottles. We are only a week in - she doesnt cry in the morning anymore for a bottle (we never gave in) but she wont drink the milk at all anymore. Ped said it was fine as long as we give her calcium rich foods. We still try milk once a day.

In the morning , (since she wont drink milk) we offer her a cup of diluted apple juice.

Re: I want her off the darned bottle already (how? BTDT Moms?) Updated with new question at bottom pg1

Thanks.. did any of you have your child in Daycare?

Re: I want her off the darned bottle already (how? BTDT Moms?)Updated new ques pg1

My DS was in daycare at 1 when he came off the bottle. They were fabulous about it, worked with him

I went cold turkey on his first birthday.

Its not really a big deal, I mean, milk is just a drink. It isn't like with formula when you need to know how much they take.

Re: I want her off the darned bottle already (how? BTDT Moms?)Updated new ques pg1

I just took it from her...and that was that.

Re: I want her off the darned bottle already (how? BTDT Moms?)Updated new ques pg1

ds (11 months) has actually been giving up the bottles himself... it took me a LONG time to find a sippy that he would accept enough to drink milk from... he loves straws and the straw sippy he does well with but i am neurotic and am worried about cleaning it...

when i started noticing he was reducing his bottles i started giving him sippy cups full of milk with each meal plus at snackt ime.....


as for drinking with the straw from your own cup... i am guilty of doing that myself and i will actually order a child cup of water in a restaurant for ds when out.... once he ditched the bottles i would do anything to get liquid in him with the heat we had... so if it meant drinking from a straw out of my cup then that was what i did...