moms of 1 year olds - cutting out bottles

dd has four bottles a day. when she wakes up, after nap (1-2pm), dinner time (5ish) and bed time (8ish).

i'm going to start to cut our her dinner time bottle. does that sound right or i'm i doing this too soon????

plus i need to get her off the formula onto milk.
also she does use a sippy cup with just water or juice init, i have not tried putting milk in it yet

Re: moms of 1 year olds - cutting out bottles

for us, we cut out the night bottle and kept the dinner one.

To wean him onto milk, we are gradually decreasing formula and increasing milk in the same bottle. We are finishing off this last can of formula and we are going to be all milk

Once we are fully on milk, I will give him sippy cups.

That's this week's project

Re: moms of 1 year olds - cutting out bottles

I found it easier to cut out the dinner time bottle first. Now we are almost down to 2. Waking and bedtime which I am sure bedtime is going to be a nightmare to eliminate so I see why others work on that one first

I just started adding 1 oz of milk to all bottles. I am only up to 2 oz this week since she apparently HATES milk. I tried it straight in a sippy cup (thinking I could eliminate formula and bottles all at once ) She wanted no part of it. So we are still slowly making the transition.

Re: moms of 1 year olds - cutting out bottles

DS used to get a bottle at 8:30am, 1pm, 4:30 and 9pm. He now gets one at 9am, 4pm and 9pm. I make sure to give him plenty of food and snacks all day and always have his sippy with water next to him. I started adding a little milk to each bottle gradually, and he is now on 1/2 milk, 1/2 formula. Good luck

Re: moms of 1 year olds - cutting out bottles

DS didn't care what his milk/formula was in as long as he got milk/formula. He was 14 mos old when he was completely off them...that was basically b/c i didn't have any clean bottles and was going away overnight and didn't want to wash them, but I had a few cups.

Re: moms of 1 year olds - cutting out bottles

for us we just started giving DS the sippy cup with water and one day, when he was able to use it, we gave him milk in it. he didn't prefer it more or less than the bottle, so the whole transition took about a week or 2.

he was off the bottle by his first birthday and didn't mind at all.