at 10 months of age is it bad to still give the milk feeds from a bottle

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or should i be using a cup!

but he settles so much with bottle esp morning and eve feeds

and anyway uses a cup for meals...so can is still use bottle for milk if he is using cup with water????

...we're still on the bottle at 2.5 here! doesn't seem to be doing any harm

I phased out the bottle after ds turned 1 - got him used to drinking water from it, then gave him milk in it at breakfast time, and at 14 months he settles well with a cup of milk at bedtime. I think the advice is to get rid of the bottle after 1, just to protect teeth, so at 10 months you sound as if you are doing fine.

last night at 18 months we finally ditched the follow on milk (for bedtime only he has it in a bottle) - tonight we ditched the bottle for a lidded cup (we had tried b4 but he was to upset about it) - it didnt go down well tongiht with my son and he woke up an hr later and had another go!! No going back for us now though. The bottle has left the building...........

not 'bad' but a good idea to try to gradually introduce cup for milk by 1 year (dentist's wife here!)

I am in the process of starting the phase out of the bottles and my LO is 10 mo.

I have dropped the bottle for his afternoon milk, and he has a beaker now. This did take a while, but if he didn't take too much I just gave him more in the evening.

He has been doing this for a week now, and is getting really good. I let him drag the beaker around or drink it on the go (in the pram), and is finishing his beaker now. Must say the first few goes had him throwing the beaker at me.

I am starting to remove the morning bottle now. Give him breakfast first, and then let him have his beaker.

It is hard, but I wanted to do it before he was old enough to realise I was doing it, IYSWIM??

this is a pfb thread. the title say sit all.

do what you are comfortable with. as long as he isnt having ribena out of a bottle, it doesnt matter how long you use the bottle for.
we had neighbours who used to line up three bottles for when her kids came back from school. i think the ledes twas 9

did you never have a first child then stitch?

bumbly - the 12mo no more bottles is a guidline and very hard to follow until you DS can drink fairly well from a cup. My 11mo is still have all of her 3 or 4 milk feeds from a bottle. I'm not going to fret if she takes another 3 or 4 months to drop that last bottle.

I do have in my mind though one of my nieces who had a bottle til she was gone 2yo and it would have been easier to take her right arm off her than her bottle. She started having real dental problems from 4 too. Tho not necessarily related.

You're doing just fine.

yes i did. and when i stopped his bottle on his second brithday, .... he stopped drinkingmilk properly after that. and i still feel to this day that i was a cruel cruel heartless mother.

a ten month old is still a baby. kindly allow them to be a baby, at least whilst they still are babies.

of course you're not cruel. It's not the end of the world if they take against milk post 1. I just don't see what pfb about the OP. HV's really push the off the bottle by 1 message and not all of us are strong enough to adopt the smile and nod approach.

And I agree with you that there's too much hurrying babies up and guidlines being used as deadlines. But if you can ease your baby off the bottle and on to the cup by the time they're around 1yo it's probably easiest on everyone. My sister wishes she had taken the bottle off her DD earlier because of all the dental problems. We all find ways to blame ourselves whatever we do.

My dd won't drink milk from a cup. She is 22 mo, and refuses it if not in bottle, and I DON'T CARE.

She has a bottle in the morning and evening. She is still very little and likes to suck, they don't bin the bottles in France. If you clean teeth at night after bottle then what is the prob? I'd rather she got her calcium from a bottle than not at all

I think a lot of the prejudice against bottles for older babies/young toddlers stems from an assumption that if they're having a bottle for milk they're also having it for all their drinks throughout the day. Mine wasn't - she had a bottle first and last thing until she was over two, and last thing until she was over three (and then we only took it off her by mistake). Twenty minutes a day with a bottle in her mouth, the remaining 12 hours 40 minutes waking time eating food, drinking from a cup, talking ALL THE TIME ... not a huge problem.

I reckon you either do it by the book and get rid of bottles by 12 months, or you chill out and settle in for the long haul, until they're way more rational - I never fancied trying to take the bottle away from a bloody-minded proto-toddler, much easier when you can explain what's going on, and bribe with stickers if necessary.

think will slowly form one year phase bottle out of two middle feeds but keep bottle for morning and night feeds as a treat!

ps horsey...or others...advice on what to do with teeth for a 10 month old???

somwetimes i brush when i get chance to by little one

but not a routine ..more of a getting used to taste of toothpaste

is that ok

has quite a few teeth out already

when do you start worrying about brushing seriously etc

Shock horror. DD2 is 3 today and still has bottle at night and morning. Like Fizzbuzz said it is not it a big deal in France and have not seen any toothless children but have seen lots of older children with bottles and dummies. The one year mark seems only to apply to British babies and is a guideline only. Not a rule.

I talked to DD2 about stopping the bottles and she seemed to so firm she 'needed' them I am not going to take away her security and comfort for the sake of british gov guidelines.

DS was still having bottles at 1 yr, but only for milk and occasionally water (when he was ill and dehydrated). I started giving him a cup of milk before getting ready for bed but still offered his bottle. Because he's already had 4-5oz of milk he (of course) drank less of his bottle. After a week or so he had drunk a 7oz cup and seemed sleepy but contented so I tried putting him to bed without his bottle and he went to sleep easily . I was happy with weaning him off a bottle in this way and didn't feel mean at all because I was still offering the bottle until he didn't seem to need it.

DD2 is 17mths and like with both ds and dd1 we phased bottle out in the day at around 12mths but still has bottles at bed time at the min. Will look to drop them by around 20mths

ds is 1 year old now...how many milk feeds 'should' he be having & 'should' it be cows milk or formula?

my 17m old still loves her bottle - I see no reason whatsoever to take it away from her at this point. I think it's cruel to take it away to adhere to a mere government guideline

DD2 is 2.3 and is still on the bottle for milk at bedtime! Has a cup/Avent spout for water/juice and am thinking we should phase out bottle soon! dd1 still having bedtime milk in a bottle until nearly 3 (now 6) and has no dental problems.