I’m having a constant nagging feeling I should be doing something different but don’t know what’s best or typical.
NHS advice is to stop bottles at 12 months.
DS is 11 months and still on 4-5 bottles a day, 4 bottles at weekend and 5 bottles when in nursery. I’ve spoken to nursery about reducing the bottles down in volume as he’s eating three meals and snacks heartily a day. But he still takes 3-4oz in bottles in the day, then 7oz when he wakes up and before bed.
Nursery said he’ll move up to the next room at 15 months, where they do one bottle a day. His current room do 3 bottles a day. They said it’s up to me, but most parents still to 3 bottles a day until babies move rooms, otherwise they’ll want a bottle when they see other babies having theirs.
As he is drinking all the milk offered, and their logic, seemed sensible to wait until 15 months to phase to one bottle, and can then swap this from being a “bottle” to a beaker of milk. From 12 months I’ll also transition this from formula to cows milk.
what’s your experience of this 12 month magic cut off for bottles?