One year old biting cup/ Still has 3 bottles

[LilyWhite2]

My DS just turned one this weekend and is still on 3 bottles. 2 months back I dropped a bottle but hes hanging on to these 3 (7am/4pm/7pm). I tried to drop the 4pm but around this time he has a screaming fit for it and will usually drain the 7oz.

He's got the top 4 teeth drop in the last 2 weeks so I'm aware bottles and formula isn't good for his teeth so trying to see what we can do. He has always been happy to drink water from sippy cup from 6 months but now we have the 6 teeth all he wants to do is chew on it.

I've tried to exchange feed 4pm for cows milk and then formula today but he just wants to chew the beaker.

Any ideas as what I can do to atleast drop the 4pm? He's having 3 meals and a snack a day filled with lots of cheese and yogurt.

Thanks

At 13m we dropped 1oz at a time for every bottle. So a week of 6oz, then a week of 5oz. We still offered in a cup. Have you tried a variety of cups?

@Timeforanothernewone

Ah I see, we just stopped the others and he was ok with it. I'll have a go at that. Did you do it with the bottle?

We use the plastic spout free flow and I sometimes have given him a tiny cup he can drink from. He seems to get a good drink and then chews. Think he drank 2/3oz of formula earlier but wasn't happy with it.

I have a soft spout mam anti tip but I got advised against using it.

Sorry this is first baby and it's really daunting to take his bottle from him.

We offered milk in a cup before bed and in the morning but also gave the bottle. Each week we cut the bottles by 1oz and gradually he took more and more from the cup to replace it.

We use a munchkin 360

It'll be less traumatic dropping by 1oz at a time than cutting them cold turkey

Once we got to a week of 2oz we then did 1oz milk and a second bottle of 1oz water. Then just 1oz water. He started rejecting the water and then the bottles were gone

I had one year old twins and I just binned the bottles

Couldn't go back! I was fed up of washing them out, cups go in the dishwasher

@Timeforanothernewone

Ah I see.. Well give the reducing a go in that way, I just had no real idea how to go about the exchanging cause all he wants is formula.

I bought one of those cups straight away from Amazon. Looks perfect to stop him chewing cause he even taps his teeth on a normal cup when he gets fed up.

@GreenTulips

It would be murder if we did that lol.. He's always been a comfort sucker and wanted more milk when I BF and a dummy. I think it may be comfort for the night bottle. That may be the hardest one to drop.

I'm not going to lie, sometimes for a day or so he was pissed off, especially for the night time bottle but each drop he adapted to quite quickly. Sometimes we shortened the time if we felt he was ok. The HV actually suggested 5oz for five days, 4oz for 4 days, 3oz for 3 days. But we felt it was too quick

@Timeforanothernewone

More often enough he falls asleep on the night one so it won't be missed, the morning one maybe. I'm doing it so we get rid of the 4pm one first so that's gone to 6oz and he's not moaned.

The issue I'm getting is he screaming fits if we try give him cows milk on a cup before :/

NC since I last replied. Can you just leave it laying around? He might take it eventually