When did your baby stop having bottles?

[MeadowHay]

Obviously this is for people whose babies actually had bottles...because you always see similar threads with people saying 'never, my baby did X instead' - which is fine, but obviously not what I'm asking! Just wondering what the range of 'normal' is in this regard really. I know NHS advises no bottles after 1 for teeth but most the people I've spoken to IRL who have bottle fed kept them for longer than this, sometimes much longer. DD is 13 months and we are favouring a gradual approach, so far we have swopped the morning milk to that red Tommee Tippiee free flow sippy cup that you see everywhere. A few days have passed and she was drinking less initially but I think has cracked it now. Still has bottle before bed, not sure whether to also switch that soon or wait a few more months.

Between 11 and 13 months for nine.

Mine! Not nine. I don't have nine DC

I meant a bottle of milk sorry - I think some people have misunderstood and thought I meant the milk itself, which is not what I meant.

Hm, ironically last night she only drank about 2oz of her bedtime bottle and this morning only about 2oz in her sippy cup. She normally drains her 5oz in a bottle and yesterday she drank probs 4.5oz out of the cup so I thought we were making progress. Might just be a one off thing though. Not sure whether to continue or swap back to bottles...she is on cows milk for the last few weeks but she has always been a fussy eater and is vegetarian too so I feel like the milk is a good source of nutrition for her, don't really want her to drop it yet.

A few people said about moving from formula to cows milk, DD wouldn't drink cow's milk at first so the first couple of weeks when she turned 1 we had to make her bottles up of a mix of formula and cows milk and gradually reduce the proportion of formula until she was tricked into drinking only cows milk lol, we did it over about a fortnight I think.

Mine born stopped at 1. Thought I might as well do it then rather than later when they might be more vocal about stopping!

Actually DD2 was younger, about 10 months. She was never a fan of the bottle though.

How is it different for their teeth if they drink milk from a bottle compared to drinking it from a cup? Obviously I'm not talking about sucking on it for ages, but just drinking, which they are done with withing a few minutes.

My son stopped at 17 months. He only had 1 bottle a day (in the morning) from around 10 months old. I kept it because he hardly had any dairy otherwise. At 17 months he started eating cheese, so I ditched the milk bottle.

I switched both my dc’s to sippy cups and got rid of bottles just as they turned 1.

DD stopped only recently at 3 having milk in a baby bottle at bedtime and with breakfast.

Before 1, can’t remember exactly when but I was definite he wasn’t going to have it after 1.

My DS has less from a cup than he would do in a bottle but might often ask for an extra cup of milk where he never did that with a bottle. We're veggie too but he has yogurt daily too (as well as cheese) so feel he is getting enough overall. It's now only a couple of ounces different per day but I'm sure much better for his teeth.

Mine still has his milk in a bottle just before bed and hes 19 months. He happily uses a cup during the day for his water but will only have his night time milk in a bottle and I've tried every cup going to try and switch him. I'm hoping to get him off by 2 but I'm not going to stress about it

My youngest was bf until 17 months so he started on bottles after some babies are done with them! He's 2.5 now and still has one at bedtime if he wants it (and brushes his teeth afterwards). Some people on here will probably be outraged but he's my second and I've learnt to follow my instincts more this time around. Do whatever is right for your DC.

My 3 year old still has a bottle to go to sleep at night and a bottle in the early hours to go back to sleep (it’s that or a v early start). Not worried. She eats plenty, her sibling was the same. They won’t do it forever.