13mo and bottles

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Hi all,

Promise this isn't a stealth boast.

DD13m is my third, but I bf my elder two and she's been bottlefed since 3m. So I have no experience of weaning from bottles.

She's now refusing pretty much all bottles.

Is this... a problem? Or just a good thing that she is weaning herself off? We were intending to start anyway.

She's still eating well, and drinks from her sippy cup... not as much as I would like her to drink, but she's having wet nappies. She won't drink milk but does eat yoghurt and cheese.

She's also going through a phase of nap resisting, and is about to start walking and seems frustrated.

I don't think she's ill as she's pretty chirpy and active during the day.

I just wanted to check if anyone else had had this experience around the same age? As I say, I've not bottlefed before. DH says my DSD was really difficult to get off the bottles.

NHS advice is to remove all bottles at 12 months to protect teeth so I would stop offering them.

She needs 350 mg of calcium a day.

No it’s not a problem. Will she have normal cows milk in a cup / beaker rather than formula?
My DS lost interest around that age and wouldn’t really drink milk. He had lots of milk in porridge and cereal though.

Mine we’re all off bottles at 12 months so yes it’s fine. It’s much easier to stop them now.

Fab! Thank you all for your great advice.

If they are eating well and gaining weight ok there's no need to push bottles.

My daughter wasn't gaining weight and wasn't eating so we had to push formula and bottles after a bottle aversion under dietician support and it was very much that our situation was the anomaly rather than yours.

I think id offer her a cup of milk with breakfast and a bottle at bedtime for now and see how you get on. The NHS recommend 10floz or 300 ml at say until she's two but that can include milk in food like porridge, custard, fish pie etc.