Aiden is now a year old. Officially old enough to not need formula anymore. Apparently, thanks to advice from a friend, I realized too late I was trying to wean him off formula AND the bottle at the same time and its too much on him. (Yeah I have no excuse I wasn’t thinking). So we have to get him off the formula but he isn’t quite ready. I mean I DID successfully get him to take a bottle other than his beloved Playtex (for which we refuse to buy anymore liners for!), but its not quite the success I am after. I am strongly on the fence of whether I should buy one more can of formula for the sole purpose of mixing it with whole milk for the transition, ir just going cold turkey. Aiden likes his milk warm and I am okay with that. I think its harder for him to realize that he needs to physically eat the food and have a bottle for a drink instead of his meals coming from the bottle. He hasn’t had tummy issues with milk or any signs of allergy, I just think he is kind of lazy. And that my friends is not acceptable and even if it seems mean, I am going to break him. The other kids were on sippy cups of milk by 14 months.
So I guess my plan is to wean him onto the milk first and then get him on the sippy. He has a great Nuby 3 in 1 cup that has 3 stages, bottle, sippy, and straw, all with soft spouts. He isn’t keen on using it all the time though. Maybe I can offer it every day. The irony is that he likes to have drinks out of a regualr cup (but I am not sitting there and holding it for him!) and he can use a straw. I think our transition may be that he needs a straw sippy.
Stay tuned as we try to get this boy off the bottle and using a big boy cup!
i dont know how it happened but Baby DIVA stopped taking a bottle at 6 months. She has been solely on a sippy. WILD. We used the munchkin little grip sippy cups. She pushed the bottle away after her first go at a sippy. That silly independent little girl i have! Good luck with weaning. I wish I had some advice.
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I offer my kids the sippy during eatting times and a bottle at nighttime. My kids didn’t have any issue switching. They probably liked it better, quicker MILK, then when I was nursing. Good luck
I am probably the wrong person to comment as my son is 99%tube fed. BUT I am also trying to formula wean and move to a sippy cup (@ age 2) thankfully we will have no bottle withdrawals here. I do think that gradually moving to whole milk is a good start, then transition to the sippy cup. Or reverse it, but definitely only one change at a time.
This was a huge issue in my house. My son did not want to give up his bottle and refused the sippy cup. He would cry for the bottle at night before he went to bed and it took forever to get him use to not having it. It probably didn’t help much that I would give into him and allowed him to have the bottle once in a while. I was the problem and was confusing him!