Which bottle did you cut out first?

I was thinking of cutting out their lunchtime bottle b/c they eat so much and lately have been having juice in a sippy cup at that time - now I'm thinking maybe I should cut out their dinnertime bottle since they'll get their nighttime bottle only a few hours later.

I'm curious to see which one everyone cut out first and at how many months? DDs are 8 1/2 months.

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I havent cut out any bottles yet, but I may also cut that lunch time bottle, because my boys hardly finish that bottle.
I havent given them juice, just water in a sippy cup and they LOVE it

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When you mean cutting out bottles, does that mean giving them formula in a sippy cup?

Every pediatrician is different but mine wanted my kids on formula or breastmilk until a year.

At a year, I transitioned over to milk. A month later, Joseph was getting sippy cups during the day of milk during the day. The last bottles I cut were the morning & nighttime. First morning bottles were cut & then nighttime.

I'm not sure I'd suggest it that way since, at least for us, nighttime was trauma time & we were still trying to get him out of our bed.

eta. Juice was given much later - almost 18 months since the ped said there was no reason to give them it.

Message edited 7/14/2007 5:05:37 PM.

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my girls get 4 bottles a day. I was thinking of cutting out the lunch bottles since they only drink an oz or two and I have added extra to the bedtime bottles, so they are getting enought formula.

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For me it was always the Lunch or Dinner bottle that went first...

My kids got:

Morning Bottle
Breakfast
LunchBottle
Lunch
Dinner Bottle
Dinner
NighttimeBottle

I never found that it really mattered which one.

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Steven gets 4 bottles a day, he is 8 months. He weaned himself off of the late morning bottle and now goes from breakfast to lunch with no bottle. Today he barely drank his late afternoon bottle, and he's been doing that for a while now. So I am going to see if he just takes the three. He is a big lunch eater. So maybe I will just give him more oz at lunch and cut out the dinner bottle, then just give the night time bottle.

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DD is 7 months and only gets 4 bottles. She cut the 5th one out at about 6 months when I started veggies at lunch.

6:30 bottle
9:00 cereal/fruit
11:00 bottle
1:00 veggie
3:30 bottle
6:00 meat/veggie & fruit
7:30 bottle

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Thanks for all the feedback. I'm going to try and experiment this week and see how it goes.

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They were drinking 5- 6 ounce bottles, but then I cut the bottles down to 4... they drink 4- 7-8 ounces bottles.

So now that were are food, they drink less of the mid morning bottle so that is probably the next bottle to cut.

Is there a specific bottle that the girls are not finishing?

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DD is almost 9 months and we cut out the dinner bottle about 2 weeks ago. She wasn't drinking much anyway and I heard that by 9 months they should be at 3 bottles and 3 meals a day....

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they had 4 bottles a day, one with each meal and then one beofre bed. I finally dropped the night bottle after they were a year and then we switched to sippy's at 18 - 20 months something like that so then it went to 2 sippy cups that are offereed through out the day.