Ok, so they're one now, what to do about night bottles?

[BeccaMichelle]

Do we still give them a bottle of whole milk before bed at night for awhile? We're still doing that, tried with a sippy but didn't work so well. We're trying to get them weaned from bottles and doing all sippies but I still don't know if they should be having milk before bed still? So clueless, Thanks ladies!

[BC-NanceLee]

(barge)

On both my boys' first birthdays, they had their evening milk from a sippy, but still in my lap. They had transitioned to sippys for all other drinks already.

Eventually I put water in the bedtime sippys, then stopped them completely. Neither boy struggled with the transition.

[Mom2TJ]

Nolan still gets a bedtime bottle. Eventually, we will switch to a sippy cup, and then I'll start cutting back on the amount of milk. I aim for it to be gone by 18 months. There's no rush.

[Curly,]

I still nurse before bed but our PED said no bottles after 1. I started introducing the sippy at around 11 months and he has taken to it well. I think milk before bed is nice, especially if your LO is on the smaller side (Gabe is 25% for weight & 75% for height).

It's so cute once you see them go for that sippy and drink by themselves! It still cracks me up

[wintak]

In our family when you turn 1, you are done with bottles. My DD gave up bottles and formula on her own at 11 1/2 mos...just done. she liked water bottles and cups better than the baby bottles.

I know for DS and DD it was an easy transition to books and hugs etc and no bottles. LO is a nursling so I'll nurse him at night just because I can and it's alone time with him.

Good luck with whatever you try!

amy

[BC-MiracleTwins]

I'm not sure how our transition will go. Right now they have 2 bottles a day. 1 in the middle of the day ( for thier nap time) and then one for thier bed time . They are in bed by 630-7pm the latest and dont wake up till 7am. They dont wake for bottles in the middle of the night. Usually thier bottles put them to sleep, and thats the only time we use them.

So transitioning means giving them a sippy cup instead of a bottle for night time?

[Jeepgrrl]

We're still doing bottles at night before bed... DP still nurses our oldest at night, so we figure it's only fair for the twins to get a little something too! Kate gets a bigger bottle and Bennett nurses (although my milk supply has really dropped) and he gets a few ounces in a bottle. I'm not in any real rush to cut them off... when DP weans our oldest, we'll wean them off the bottles.

During the day, they get milk in sippy cups... no bottles.

[Caligal]

I am still giving Ryan bottles. Still wakes up in the middle of the nite and snacks. I am going to have to ask at his 1 yr appt. next month. I have tried a sippy cup with him and he has no interest in it at all.

[drakel]

When we hit about 11.5 months, weeks, we went all the way to sippies. We did whole milk transition about 1.5 weeks before he was one and it went great. From about 10.5 months or so we ate supper and played, bathed and went to bed. He's never been hooked on a nighttime bottle and hasn't woke up at night to eat since he started sleeping through the night. So the transition for us was super easy since after he eats supper, he doesn't do anything food wise except for maybe sip a few ounces of milk from a sippy while he plays.

HOlden is in the 5th percentile for weight, so the dr. asked how much milk he was drinking and we told him (it was around 14-16 a day). He said he should drink 24-32 ounces a day. To do that he'd be drinking round the clock the way he "sipped" but he getting more in the groove. The dr. told us to put a couple teaspoons of carnation instant breakfast in his milk to make it tastier (and probably add calories). He will guzzle 10 ounces of his "power milk" in like 10 minutes while he plays! I only put it in his big 10 ounce sippy. The other ones he drinks throughout the day are just plain milk. I got the vanilla to not have caffeine, but the other night I gave in and put a TINY bit of Nesquik in his milk and he was ALL about that. Definately his mommy's boy!!!!

[KKB]

Hi everyone -
I'm trying to find out why it's recommended you stop bottles around age one? Some stuff I've found has talked about bottle use past one being linked with higher risk of tooth decay and ear infections...has anyone been told specifically why they should transition?
My DD hasn't taken to the sippy cup yet (she's almost 11 months) and likes drinking from a cup but isn't great at that yet (more ends up on her than in her!).