How do I drop the morning and night bottles?

We are down to 2 bottles a day, morning and night. In the am they get a bottle of milk when they get up and breakfast about 45 minutes later. When I take the bottle away, do I give them their sippy with milk first thing and then breakfast or do I give breakfast right away at 7:30am?

They get their dinner around 5:30 and night bottle of milk around 7pm. Do I give them a sippy of milk at 7pm or just give them milk with dinner and nothing before bed?

Thanks,

 

I found with all my children the first bottle was much easier to drop than the nighttime one. In the morning I feed them first thing and then offer them a sippy cup of milk. They didn't miss a beat. To get rid of the nighttime bottle I started feeding them a little later 6:15 - 6:30 and offered sippy cup after dinner. For a couple of weeks, I still gave them a bottle at 7. One of my girls, absolutely didn't want the bottle. The other I had a harder time with. I started offering her water and she weaned herself. Good Luck!

 

I can tell you what we do... Ben and Sarah get a breakfast, lunch and dinner cup of milk. When it's meal time, I put them in their seats with a cup of milk and some Cheerios while I get their meal ready or am feeding the other one. They work on that cup through the meal and sometimes I will let them take that cup with them to go play after their meal, but most times they drink enough that I'm satisfied and I take it away with the booster tray.

Oh yeah, I do breakfast as soon as they get up (between 7 and 7:30). And I do dinner between 5 and 5:30 and nothing else before bed. We started this with my older son when trying to potty train through the night, so I figure the earlier I do it with Ben and Sarah the better...

HTH!

Stacy

 

I'd drop the bottles and give the sippy of milk with the meal. Mine get sippies of milk with each meal, and Grace also gets milk with her snack because her intake of milk is lower overall. Lily gets a sippy of juice with her snack because she reaches 20 ounces of milk daily with the 3 meals.

 

To get rid of the bed time bottle, our pedi suggested filling it with water and offering it to them. If they really want the bottle and are addicted to the sucking, then they will take it. If they refuse it, then they can do without the bottle. It worked for us. The first night of offering the water, they drank a couple of sips and fell asleep. The next night, they pushed the bottle away and went to sleep without it. We haven't had a bottle since. We never have milk or water right before bed. It is always with dinner or immediately after which is usually 5:30 or 6:00pm. They are typically in bed by 7:30pm.

For the morning bottle, we just started replacing it with a sippy of milk when they get up. We get them up and give them a cup of milk before they go to day care. They eat breakfast at the day care sometime around 8am. We do the same thing on the weekends - sippy of milk when they wake up and then breakfast 30-45 minutes later. We don't give them any milk in the evenings during the week because they get plenty during the day at the day care. On the weekends we sometimes give them a little after dinner. The rest of the time they drink water from their sippy cups.

 

All I did was replace it with the sippy. They never complained about it.

 

I just dropped bottles with my DD and when she gets up I offer her milk in a sippy and for the most part she won't take it but it's there if she changes her mind and then at night I offer it while we cuddle before she goes to bed. It's only been about 6 days and she is still adjusting but it should be over soon. The boys were WAY easier to get off bottles that DD. I just bottles away from the boys and they had no issues with it.

 

For the morning, instead of sitting with them and having a bottle, then getting dressed, then breakfast, I went right to getting dressed first, then out to the kitchen for breakfast, and they get a sippy of milk while I make breakfast. They started eating much more at breakfast with me doing that.

For the evening, we still do a sippy of milk after dinner before bedtime. They eat dinner, then bath and pajamas, then a sippy of milk while we wind down. I'm not sure when I am going to drop that.

 

We do four meals a day and a "snack" before bed. They get a milk sippy at every meal. We also give them sippies with ice water to carry around all day. We have found that they will drop it and go back to it many times throughout the day between meals.

Breakfast #1 is anywhere from 6-7am about 1/2 hour after they wake.
Breakfast #2 is around 9-10am
Lunch is around 12-1pm
Dinner is around 4-5:30pm
Final snack is around 7pm - usually something like fruit and cheese with a milk sippy

We had to go "cold turkey" because they preferred the bottles. It was hard to drop the final bottles because they drank much less for 1-2 weeks, and we caved in several times because we were worried about dehydration. So we went cold turkey and they learned to drink from the sippy when they realized the bottles weren't coming back!

 

We are atthe same issue ... and I think the nap time is easier than the bedtime one... for the bedtime I have a feeling we are just goign to have to listen to a little bit of fussyness

 

I replaced the morning bottle with a sippy and then did the evening. Mine don't drink as much from their sippy as they did with their bottles. Now I offer the sippy first and then moved their breakfast to 8:00. Good luck with the transition.