When to stop bottles?

[jenrendo]

My DS is 13 months and currently has a bottle when he gets up and one before he goes to bed (cow's milk). The rest of the day he drinks water from his sippy cup, and milk in it before his nap in the afternoon. My DH and I were just musing this morning about when children stop having bottles and I was interested to hear your experiences. Do they still drink the same volume of milk but from a cup, or do they move on to other things? I know he has a way to go before giving up, but was just wondering! My mum insists that I never had bottles and went straight from breast to cup, but my DS has always been bottle fed. So, do we stop when toilet training (again, a way off yet)? Any advice greatly appreciated :)

I'm slowly tailing off BF at 13months, I have always given water in a doidy cup but have started replacing BF with milk feeds in a NUK learner bottle with a beak shaped teat from Amazon.

I have Italian nieces though who still have a bottle at 6

I stopped my DS's night time bottle at 10 months. The morning was one a bit more difficult - due to me mainly. It was my way of keeping him occupied while I got washed and dressed in the morning! But we managed to stop that at 14 months.

In terms of milk itself, I continued offering it in a cup for a while. But, I didn't fuss too much over how much he had. He's quite a big dairy fan so always got lots of calcium through yoghurts, cheeses, eggs etc and I used milk in cooking such as mashed potatoes, quiches to help top up.

Dd was 15 months and Ds was 11 months when they took all their milk from a cup instead of a bottle. It's advised to stop using bottles around 1 year old.

Interested in this because DD and DS1 both weaned themselves off milk pretty quickly once they started eating decent ammounts of solids.
DS2 11 months however loves his milk in a bottle morning, 3.30 and before bed, I have made several attempts at getting him to take it out of a cup and he gets very upset.
How do I stop the bottle? Am keen to do it before DC4 arrives in April.

It's up to you really, so long as you look after their teeth - always brush teeth after milk before bed.

Between 12-24 months they need about 12oz milk a day.

I've heard that they should stop bottles by about 1 as well, though DS at 16 mths still has one morning and evening (and drinks water in a cup during the day). He seems much more attached to the bottle than my other kids were (both using only cups by about 10 months). I am dragging my heels but I know I need to stop with the bottles soon as I don't want him to be like LaVita's nieces! (though I'm sure they are belle e' brave in every other way).

LaVita ! Ah well, it seems that there is no right or wrong way to do it so I might start off taking the morning one away first and giving him his breakfast when he gets up instead. The night time one is part of his sleepy routine so I might keep that a bit longer. Notso, it would have been so much easier if DS had stopped when he began taking more solids but unfortunately he is a pudding

The advice is to stop by 1, but my ds wouldn't drink milk in a cup (fine with water/ juice etc.) but was impossible to get a decent amount of milk down him in a cup. He had a nightime bottle until he was 2.5. When I cut it, we tried to get him to drink milk from a cup with all sorts of encouragement, but it was very hard work and he never took to it, so gave up and had to get it into him other ways - cereal/ yoghurt/ cheese etc.