weaning off the bottle at 1 year? - Page 2

[limabean]

Originally Posted by dachshund mom

My ped said the bottles are a problem because kids tend to drink for comfort and fill up on milk, which is very different in nutrition from formula, leading to overweight yet malnurished kids. Iron in particular is low in toddlers drinking too much milk. Breastfeeding isn't a problem since breastmilk is nutritionally ok to fill up on.

Another very easy problem to get around -- our DD has her bottles after she's eaten nutritious meals/snacks.

All the reasons peds give for doing away with bottles are extremely easy to bypass. I think they just think it "should" be a certain way, and so they give all these reasons instead of just saying, "Bottles are fine, but be sure to give food first and brush teeth after the nighttime bottle."

[Skippy918]

I WOH and DS is in daycare. When he moved up to the toddler room, they preferred to have the kids off the bottles. So I just put my ebm into a sippy and he drank it. He could care less where the beverage was coming from. Now he gets either water or milk in his sippy with his meals.

[lovetheheights]

I just wanted to post a quick THANK YOU for everyone and an update.

This week our sitter weaned her from her daytime bottles- it was really funny because I had left a note for her to feed her from a sippy cup as much as she would drink so that at naptime she would take less bottle, but the sitter read that as meaning to do only sippy cups. Which was fine- the baby fussed a bit more than normal but got herself down within 40 minutes or less each nap.

nighttime I am not weaning yet- but I have started to feed her from a sippy cup for the hour before bed, so the bottles are more like 4 oz instead of 8.

thank you all, I will report back for anyone else who reads this and wants to know experiences. it was truly helpful to read about everyone's time.

[LROM]

I learned a lot in this thread - thanks to everyone who explained the various reasons Peds say "no bottles" after 12 months. And I also learned some good "explanations" for changes, like the "super-neato-big boy sippy cup"! I'm totally gonna use that on dd when she's old enough....

[lovetheheights]

just following up...late. I am the OP and have to say thanks. I weaned her pretty fast with the help of a 4 day weekend with my mom where my mom did the final steps for me.

My process:

Got rid of ANY drinking in the bedroom during the day. No more drinking to soothe because it was getting in the way of self soothing.

My stuck part was the nighttime bottle. But I knew she was ready to get rid of it.

So when my mom had her for 4 days we got rid of all bottles. THe thought being that maybe she would just think "oh, here we have no bottles" and when she came home, she asked a few times. In the shadows of the darkened room, some things LOOKED like bottles (like diaper cream etc) so I hid all of that, because she would see it and think I was holding out. I just said "no more baba" and she got over it after a few nights.

so thanks all!

[RomanGoddess]

Originally Posted by dachshund mom

My ped said the bottles are a problem because kids tend to drink for comfort and fill up on milk, which is very different in nutrition from formula, leading to overweight yet malnurished kids. Iron in particular is low in toddlers drinking too much milk. Breastfeeding isn't a problem since breastmilk is nutritionally ok to fill up on.

This is why bottle weaning is recommended at age one. Tooth decay is only part of the reason and can be avoided if your toddler doesn't fall asleep with the bottle in his mouth. But many toddlers who still drink from a bottle end up consuming way more dairy than they should, especially if they are already eating cheese and yogurt as well.