How nany of you got rid of trhe bottle by 12 months and is it the end of the world if you don't?

[Sullwah]

My twins are just 10 months old.

I am doing a mix of BLW and jars (I cant face making up puree!) and have a 30 min limit on all meals ie. they can play with food and eat a bit of puree and after 30 mins meal time is over. They are still taking three good bottles a day and so I am relaxed about how much food they actually manage to consume during the 30 mins.

I am just worried about switching from bottles to beakers for milk as that will reduce their milk consumption (they are terrible at drinking much water from the beaker). And with a reduced milk consumption I will worry about how much they manage to eat and I will turn into one of those mothers (like my own) who chases their kids around the house with a spoon in their hand for hours after the meal should be over .

So when did yours stop the bottle and should I care?

ps - I never let them sleep with the bottle and have started to brush teeth before bedtime

interesting comment about too much milk = not enough food = speech muscles don't get exercised = bad spech....

for dd (2.4) - i could believe this is true as she's a milk addict and not v good with food and she's v slow to speak...

but ds was 3.3 when he dropped the bottles and was speaking fluently by 2.

am in no hurry - dd will sort herself out (bottles and speech.....)

My daughter is 16 months and gave up her bottle herself at 12 months, we went to Canada for a holiday and she was only putting the very end of the teat in her mouth and didn't drink it, we gave her a beaker and she drank the lot!

I really wouldn't worry about it though, its not a big deal.

DD1 till 2 yrs old. It was nice to have a comforting bottle of warm milk before bed. DD2 was 12 months but she was a very independent and not very cuddly babe!

DD1 till 2 yrs old. It was nice to have a comforting bottle of warm milk before bed. DD2 was 12 months but she was a very independent and not very cuddly babe!

Ds just 2 year old. Still on a bottle for milk only. Tried to take him off twice but he just refuses to take his milk.

To be honest, I would prefer him to drink milk 3 times a day as that is more beneficial to his teeth than the risk that his teeth will suffer (he has gorgeous straight white teeth).

I agree with the poster who said - they are still babies. Relax. They won't be drinking out of a bottle when they are teenagers!!!!

CrushwithEyeliner

I think it's because if toddlers suck on bottles a lot for comfort they end up drinking way too much milk which leaves little room for food. With BF they might suck for comfort but tend not to take in so much milk.

DD is 11 months.

I spoke to HV as she has milk but at 11 months is only on 2 bottles a day. Ideally the morning bottle would be a cup, but the night time one would still be a bottle (for comfort) so you're only talking one bottle of milk a day away from the "ideal". HV ideal, not mine.

not sure if I missed some words out there! Basically, I wouldnt worry about the bottles, they dont even drink that much at that age.

as long as only milk or water in the bottle and no juice then its fine by boy had a bottle of milk at bedtime untill he was 2