When do you drop the bottle feeds?

[ThornyRose]

DD is 14 months and has two bottles, one when she wakes and one at night. When do I stop giving thme to her?

Also, dd wakes and has a bottle and then I give her breakfast about a an hour later, should I be giving her breakfast straight away?

My DD is 19 months and has a huge cup of warm milk first thing (she screams in front of the microwave until she gets it ) and then breakfast an hour or so later.....if she didn't eat her breakfast, then I would consider swapping it around.

The night-time milk was dropped by her....she just stopped drinking it / all of it and it got to a point where it was being wasted.

I would carry on as you are tbh

HTH

Thanks LittleMissNorty, she is eating her breakfast so I just carry on and see if she wants to drop any of her feed herslef

I'd leave it too. My ds is 17 months and will sometimes drink a few oz before bed but more often than not he tips it on floor so I take it off of him. He took to weaning really well and ate loads so I dropped milk pretty quick and had to stop morning bottle at about 9 months because he wouldn't eat breakfast. I'd love him to drink more milk, but he doesn't seem to like it

My ds (18m) has a cup of milk in the morning with his breakfast, and a cup of milk at bedtime, but he sometimes doesn't drink that.

Everybody does things differently in my experience as we all have our little routines, if she is eating her breakfast, then I wouldn't worry about changing.

I've tried giving her warm milk in her cup but she wont have it. She drinks water from her cup though. I'm not sure how to change her milk from her bottle to a cup

THorny, my dd is 18mo and flat out refuses milk from a cup - but happily drinks water from a cup throughout the day.

I have bought one of those cups with the straws and she loves it - but she still like to lie back with her hands behind her head and get mummy to give her her morning bottle

She gets a full bottle of milk in the morning and will eat her breakfast anywhere from 15 minutes later.

Interested to see others dropping bedtime milk as dd takes hardly any - I will now stop stressing about it.

Good to know my dd isnt the only one meep! Will try and find a cup and straw and see if that helps

I have tried soooo many different cup/beakers for ds, free flow, leak proof etc.
The only problem I/we found with the straw beakers is that he couldn't work out how to get much liquid as he was still tilting the thing like a bottle so there was no drink at the bottom for the straw to suck up iyswim.
We used the tommee tippee sportster for ages but too close to a bottle I thought and ds started bashing the nib on the floor so ended up with puddles of liquid over everything!
I've also found it very difficult to get him to drink from a hard nib too, but yesterday bought a beaker from tescos (own brand) with a hard nib straw shaped but with nothing inside, it's going down well at the mo.......

thornyrose - we have had a break through. My dh took it upon himself to give dd her milk from a cup on Friday morning and she took it (maybe because it wasn't me) - and she's now had bedtime and morning milk all from cups. I haven't tidied the bottles away yet - but maybe there is hope!

meep

I tried again today with her cup and warm milk - she spat it all out!

Thorny - we have been backwards and forwards with this. One morning dd had a total meltdown - tears, wailing, pushing the cup away. I had to go back to a bottle and she guzzled it in a nano-second. Turns out she hadn't eaten her tea at nursery the night before so the poor wee thing was starving and wanted her milk NOW!!

Back on cups again - but she definitely doesn't have as much as before.

I wouldn't worry too much - I know a 4yo who only stopped his bottle when his big sis told him he'd get teased at school!

Can't imagine my dd (19 mo) giving up her milk - she loves it so much. She still has it from a bottle (won't drink it from a cup) first thing in the morning (and I mean FIRST thing), and last thing at night. Often during the day too. Eats well, but not as much as I'd like, probably because she gets so much from the milk. I'm going to let her lead on this, I think.