which bottle do u use when they go on milk

we have been using dr browns but they are just starting on milk so i purchased the regular gerber bottle... although do i use medium flow or the fast flow nipples... and do u think those bottles are good.? what do u all use..

 

we have been using dr browns but they are just starting on milk so i purchased the regular gerber bottle... although do i use medium flow or the fast flow nipples... and do u think those bottles are good.? what do u all use..

 

When we started whole milk we started using sippy cups (we had been practicing with water in them for a while). I would suggest doing this if you can b/c you won't have to break them from taking the bottle later. HTH

 

I used the same bottles we had always been using when we switched to milk. This is also the time we started a gradual move to sippies as well. I'm not familiar with Dr. Browns, but I think that the transition will be easier if you stick with their same bottles. Good luck.

 

we played with sippy cups also.....we started switching to milk and half formula at 10 months...they where on milk and no bottles at ther 1 yr birthday.......well they had there reg bottle at night for just a few months and then they where gone completly

 

We also never gave milk in a bottle. The day we stopped formula, we stopped bottles.

 

I agree with pps, if you are going to switch to a different bottle, you might as well just switch to the sippies and be done with it. I had to switch my now 2yr old to a cup starting at 9mos in anticipation of the twins coming and found that the Gerber cups with the soft blue spouts were the best. I think anything with a soft spout will be better than a hard spout for the initial transition. Once he was off all bottles for about a month I switched to the hard spout sippies. I did the same with the twins. GL!

 

i do use sippys though..at meals with their h2o and juice....what about bredtime?? u give them milk in a sippy?

 

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what about bredtime?? u give them milk in a sippy?

YEP!

 

I used Dr. Browns until milk too. I switched them straight to a sippy cup when we went to milk so I never bought any other kind of bottle.

They will eventually take it out of the cup and they don't have to drink a lot of milk out of the cup during the early transition time. Just give them lots of cheese, yogurt, and other dairy products. Offer milk in a sippy most of the day and they should get enough. It really was pretty easy to transition, they eventually just started drinking it out of the cup.

I gave them milk in a cup before bed but I also gave them some dry cheerios or something with it since they wouldn't take as much out of the cup at first.

 

we used Avent bottles till we switched to milk and now we use Nuby sippies!

 

At first we continued to use their Avent bottles when we gave them milk. Then we switched them over to Playtex sippies.

 

We also never gave milk in a bottle. We switched straight to sippy cups at 1 yr.

 

ok another question..well mygirls have been using sippies like i said for the last 3 months for water and juice so they are pretty used to it..but what do i do when i go out.. make a bottle or a sippy..say for instance i am going to a store...
does milk have the same time span in a bottle as formula did?
and which sippy do u feel is the best i use nuby they bite it like crazy and the playtex hard top is okay ..anyone feel somehting is better????????

 

We never used bottles for milk, just sippy cups. We didn't start milk until 1 year and that's when bottles are recommended to be stopped so we went right to sippies.
I had them using sippies at meals with water since 8 months anyway. WE never used bottles except right out of the hospital until I had enough milk supply.
I just make sippies for them as needed and only bring water sippies to the store as needed. I am usually not gone long enough for them to have to have anything but water to drink. A freind watched our kids the other night for our date night and I packed 2 sippies of milk.