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Struggling with how to ween from the bottle

post #1 of 6
10/10/07 at 9:33am
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Gracie is 17 months old now and still taking a bottle. For awhile I had cut her back to online having one first thing in the morning, at nap, and at bedtime and the babysitter is still doing well with that. However, here at home I find myself giving in to her fussing and offering the bottle at any time she wants. A lot of it is a lack of patience and time on my part. I feel so rushed all the time that I have trouble putting any energy in to it.

Can everyone share their experiences and/or offer suggestions?
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post #2 of 6
10/10/07 at 10:24am
After my kids turned one, I just took it away. If she's thirsty, she will take the sippy cup. You just have to stick with it and be in charge, and it will suck the whole time.
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post #3 of 6
10/10/07 at 11:48am
THROW THE BOTTLES OUT!!!

Just offer sippy's. She will drink when she's thirsty. That's what I had to do with the turkeys here. I tossed the bottles.... that way I didn't give in to them.
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post #4 of 6
10/10/07 at 7:43pm
Aaron did not like drinking milk from the sippy cup, just the bottle, but I made sure he ate lots of cereal with milk. I just got him more used to drinking juice with the sippy cup, which he did. That's all I can offer.
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post #5 of 6
10/10/07 at 9:11pm
My kids never really were into the bottle too much so I guess it was easier to go from nursing to the sippy which is what I did. They were completely off the bottle and on hard sippys by 9 months.

What about juice boxes just to get her interested in something besides the bottle. Or maybe try the Nuby cups which are similar to a bottle and then switch to real sippys.
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post #6 of 6
10/11/07 at 12:35pm
i agree, just throw out the bottles... then your temptation is gone.

logan didn't like that transition either, but eventually he stopped throwing his sippy cups
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