Dropping last bottles - when and how

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bunnyrabbit · 22/07/2004 08:39

DS is 10 1/2 months and is only on two bottles now, morning and night. I know he should not be drinking for bottles by the time he is one year, but not sure how to go about this.

Should I change the morning bottle for a beaker? Or should I drop the milk in the monrning altogether? (I usually give hime this at hoime and he has breakfast at nursery)

What about nighttime?

Help?

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StickyNote · 22/07/2004 09:02

I'm sure lots of people do this differently, but I put a beaker of water (non leak type) in their cot so they could have a drink during the night and in the morning. Then beaker of milk with breakfast. I didn't want them drinking milk before bed (lots will disagree with me I know), so offered a beaker of water with their story and then put them to bed. This was from a year old.
HTH

Hulababy · 22/07/2004 09:11

My DD would not take milk at all out of any form of cup or beaker, only a bottle. As I wanted her to continue with milk at least a little bit I simply swapped the bottle teat to the Avent soft spout (removed the horrid non spill valve thing first). Problem solved!

DD had a morning milk drink up until about 18 months or so. She dropped the night time one at about a year old.

Even now at 2y 3m she won't drink milk - I don't like it either. She now has a variety of other stuff to replace it.

elliott · 22/07/2004 09:32

I just replaced all four bottles one at a time starting around 11 months, with beakers of milk. At first he didn't take much but once the last (bedtime) bottle had gone he started to drink more from the cup.
He still has a drink of milk at roughly the same times as he always had it and he's 32 months now!
Incidentally we stopped giving a morning bottle before breakfast at about 7 months and gave it him before his morning nap instead - otherwise he wouldn't eat breakfast. But since your ds is having a later breakfast at nursery he might get very hungry without milk at home...

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bunnyrabbit · 22/07/2004 09:50

I know Elliot, I thought that too, this is why I'm in a bit of a quandary...

I think I'll leave the night time bottle and switch the morning bottle for a beaker.... but then they don't get as much from a beaker so won't this affect his milk intake????

We use the flip top beakers for his water, and he quite happily drinks from this himself. What do you knowledgable mners suggest for a milk beaker?

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elliott · 22/07/2004 10:11

Yes, he probably won't drink as much from a beaker, but I think that's part of the point - past the first year they don't need such large volumes of milk and shoudl be getting mroe of their needs from a varied solid diet (and in fact too much milk can put off their appetite for food)
I believe that the 'official' guidance (in birth to five and probably on food standards agency website if you're interested) is for between 12 and 20oz a day after one year (including milk in food).
I used the Heinz baby basics cups for milk - tended to use other types of cup for water and juice. And went straight to cow's milk in the beaker.

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bunnyrabbit · 22/07/2004 11:10

Thanks elliot,
I'll look for these cups as I think it's a good idea to use different one's for milk.

Didn't realise it was only 12oz. So, one bottle at night is 7 oz and each Fromage frais is 4oz (I'm so sad I measured it!!) so that's 11oz in a day without whatever milk he has in the morning and whatever else he has in cooking/breakfast etc.

Thanks for this, that makes me a lot happier.

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