No more bottles!

I am so excited. Today Nathaniel had a bottle free day! :banana: He even took COLD milk out of a sippy. First time EVER. He drank more milk today then he has in a long time, and all in a sippy. I am so happy. My oldest was off the bottle at 10 months, so being 12 months and still on a bottle was driving me insane. Now to work on William.

 

Congrats!! We are getting there ourselves. Our guys have just one bottle left at bedtime - the rest in the sippy cup. I'm really nervous about dropping the bedtime bottle, though, since they will go so long without eating, so I think I'm going to wait until after all the holiday craziness. It's SO nice being down to just one bottle a day, though. What a relief from the 8 a day we started off with!

 

Yes it is a relief! The bedtime bottle is the first bottle I dropped with all of my boys. My oldest Donevan was 4 months when we dropped it. For the twins, Nathaniel was 6.5-7 months, William was closer to 8 months. Good luck!

 

Way to go!!! My twins still refuse to drink anything by sippy and don't even want their bottles (with milk or anything else in them) except for morning and bedtime so I am super frustrated. However I am hoping to find myself bottle free in the next few weeks, cold turkey lol. Maybe then they will accept water or juice. Now to drum up the energy and bravery to tackle it!

 

Good luck. I have to say it depends on the sippy. I gave Nathaniel a different sippy today, and he loves it. Drinks out of it way better then his other one. Kids are weird.

 

:yahoo: Congratulations!

 

Your math is bad. We started with 16 bottles. :laughing:

Drinking well from a sippy suddenly clicked for both of them right around Thanksgiving. And they went from fumbling with every different type of sippy to drinking from every different type of sippy. Woohoo! I'm sure we could drop the bedtime bottle, but I am OK with having it for now.

 

Congrats!!

You guys that are worried about the night bottles, so was I. Turned out that would have been my easiest one to let go! Mamas YOU CAN DO IT!!! :youcandoit:

 

This is SO true. We went through about four different kinds of cups before we found the ones that work for us. Have you tried a straw cup? We use the Nuby straw cups and our boys do very well with them.

 

Lol. You're right. I was thinking 8 each. I'm trying not to remember when I had to fix that many bottles a day!! :faint: I do NOT miss those days.

 

Congratulations!!! I was so happy when I packed up the bottles and put them away for good!

 

I have. Nathaniel doesnt like it, but William does. It has to be the Heinz baby ones, the spout is smaller and hard, unlike the nuby ones.

 

Good job mama! I always cringe at work when I see a 2 year old with a bottle. I'm a firm believer in the earlier the better. I'm sure your other son will come around when he sees his brother using the sippy.

 

My kids just turned 11 months and have refused using their sippies at all! Much to my frustration At this point they are having three solid meals and a snack and still drinking 20-21 oz/day.

at this point they get a bottle in the am when they wake followed by breakfast; then a bottle about 30 min before lunch and then they get a snack mid-day and then a mini bottle before dinner and bottle before bed.

this may sound silly but how do you know when to 'wean' or feed less milk/formula. The doctor said we could switch to milk anytime now but honestly I kind of worry that my DD doesn't get enough of her solids in to get all her nutrition (although she is eating ok).

I've tried all the sippies... DD can drink from a cup though just not sippy straw or spout !! We're working on it.

 

For when to know when to give them less formula or milk, my kids did it on their own. Nathaniel started drinking less and less of some bottles, the first one was his bedtime bottle at about 6 months. I would make him 6.5oz and he would take maybe 2oz, so I just stopped giving it to him and it didnt even phase him. William did the same thing at about 7.5 months. My oldest was 4 months. Nathaniel then stopped wanting a bottle at lunch about a month ago, so I was giving him a sippy at lunch with less milk, or with a drinkable yoguart. They'll let you know when they need less. They should cut back on their own.

 

Smiley: don't worry, it will come. Just keep offering. I offered sippies at every meal starting at 8-9 months but they didn't figure it out until right around their first birthday. And don't worry about intake for milk vs formula. The nutritional content is actually very similar with iron being the only thing milk doesn't have. Most kids get a good amount of iron from cereal, puffs, etc.

Mine started dropping feedings right around their first birthday. They would nurse in the AM and have bottles after each of their naps, then nurse again at bedtime. All of a sudden they were refusing their afternoon bottle. Once we switched to sippies they were not interested in just sitting and drinking, so we started offering their milk at each meal and snack. They drink anywhere from 15-24 oz a day.