Generally, a baby will be ready to be weaned from the bottle sometime between the ages of 9 months and 18 months. There are basically two things that must happen for your baby or toddler to be weaned from the bottle. The first is that your baby’s sucking need has to slow down or stop.
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To help the transition from the bottle to a cup, there are some things that you can do early on. First, during those first few months of your baby’s life, you should only use the bottle when it is time for your baby to eat. Don’t give your baby a bottle in bed. If you give your baby a bottle in bed, she will begin to associate the bottle with comfort and security, not just with food.
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Denying your baby a bottle, especially that last one before bed, can be incredibly challenging for moms and dads,” says Rallie McAllister, MD, MPH, coauthor of The Mommy MD Guide to the Toddler Years. “It makes it far more difficult to get babies to sleep, and when babies don’t sleep, neither do their parents..
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Are you wanting to help your toddler give up the bottle? According to the AAP, tots should phase out bottle use between 12-24 months of age. Some young children adjust well to drinking out of sippy cups, while others do not. Many tots who sometimes drink from a cup still prefer a bottle, especially when drinking milk.
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When a child gives up this habit has nothing to do with how advanced or behind he is. The important no-no of bedtime bottles is putting sweet drinks such as juice or milk in a bottle and letting your toddler take it into bed, where he'll sip it slowly.
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202 out of 229 found this helpful. The best way to get your toddler off the bottle is to pull a bottle away at a time. Start with the mid-day bottle,do that for a few days then pull the morning, do that for a few days and last the night. When you get down to the last bottle time, change up the baby's schedule. Don't stand around the refrigerator/kitchen if you were going to prep a bottle.
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Many toddlers continue to nurse or have a bottle at bedtime well past their first birthday (and some continue well past their second), so there's nothing unusual about your son's attachment to his bottle. What's more, most toddlers who give up sucking milk still suck something.
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Here are some tips that may help your toddler give up the bottle at night time and nap time: Gradually Switch From Milk (or Juice) to Water: Instead of giving all milk (or juice), fill part of the bottle up with water. Gradually, from day to day, make it more watery. Keep doing this until it’s only water.
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Your child should know how to drink out of a cup before you take away the bottle. Many pediatricians tell parents to introduce sippy cups around 6 to 9 months. That's when kids commonly start drinking water and other liquids besides formula and breast milk.
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when do babies give up bottles
A baby gives up bottle between 12 and 24 months of age.