Dropping bottles - when?

[Weegle]

Ds is 9 mo and has 3 bottles (10oz) a day and 3 meals a day. Fine and happy so not looking to change just yet. But just wondering, roughly when do you drop to two bottles a day and which one do you drop?when do you go to one? And when do you stop altogether?

Also should I reduce the amount in the morning and 2pm bottle to get him to eat more solids? (But he has breakfast and lunch BEFORE the bottle). We are having no joy getting him to drink from a cup so don't want to deprive him of fluids. He eats approx 3 ice cubes savoury and 3 fruit & rice per meal plus also some finger foods. I should probably mention he's big and tall for his age at about 26lb/80cm so although 10oz sounds like a lot, he's not small!

Be grateful for any advice!

Hi weegal no advice on dropping bottles as DD is only 7months old.

But DD hats cups and I've brought loads (mainly the expensive ones with awards) all of which she rejected. She likes mothercare basic spouted beaker (it's free flow all the others were non drip and she couldn't / wouldn't get the hang of the different sucking required) She also likes the doidy cup (it's got no lid, 2 handles the lip of the cup is curved to make easier to drink out of) however she has doesn't quiet have the hang of holding onto it with both hands all the time so if I'm not careful she flings milk everywhere.

thanks loopybear - I should have clarified, he will drink from an open cup e.g. a doidy/regular cup but I have to hold this for him and he still doesn't take much, but will not drink from a spout either free flow or non-spill.

Anyone got any advice on when you drop bottles etc?

I would just like to bump this for you as i am interested as well

my dd was down to 2 bottles by around 9/10 months. She lost interest in her mid afternoon one so it stopped. I never had to reduce her milk as she did it by herself - used to worry sometimes if she was taking enough!!

She had a bottle in the morning and before bed. I didnt look to stop milk from bottles until she was 1 year old and started substituting the morning bottle for a cup of milk along with her breakfast. Only once she was ok with taking milk from the cup did I swap the night bottle for a cup too (started with the tommee tippee first cup which is freeflow and once she was good with that started using the avent magic cup which was much less messy as it is non-spill).

She finished with bottles by around 14/15 months. She still had milk from her cup at night for quite a few months after that though.

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Both the above sell them but tbh I would try an ordinary plastic beaker first e.g. I took the lid off of dd's tommee tippee first cup and her other tommee tippee cup cos they are suitable to be used without the lid too.

I've give bottles with both of my two, up until 1 year. Down to, two a day by 11mths. dd2 was 1 on sunday and was given beakers of milk from then onwards. To make the intro of a beaker for milk easier for her, I'd replaced her afternoon bottle with a beaker about 10mths. I found with dd1 it helped to have a decent free flow spout, however you say he's not happy with one of those, so it may help to try a pop up flask type affair, its surprising how young they can be when they choose to master those. HTH's

when my dd was 2 she had stopped drinking milk at bedtime. She is now 3 and rarely has milk at all except with cereal. She does like drinkable yoghurts, cheese sauces, ice cream, etc so I am not worried about her milk intake.