Breaking 1 year old from the bottle.?

Question

My daughter just turned 1 last month, and uses a bottle when drinking her milk. She uses a sippy cup when drinking juice and water, but seems to prefer the bottle most of the time. I want to get her off of the bottle soon. Is it best to just go cold turkey and get rid of all the bottles in the hourse, or should I do it gradually?

She also uses a pacifier. Should I break her from the pacifier at the same time, or would that be too traumatic?

Answer 1

Tell her she is a big girl and big girls dont use bottles or pacifiers...and have HER throw them away...then later when she wines about it, you can say, well you wanted to be a big girl and remind her that SHE threw them away!  I would definatly do both at the same time!  With the pacifier, I cut the end off and she couldnt use it, so it was broken, so she had to throw it away and we didnt have any more.  She was fine with it and once asked about it once!  Good Luck!

Answer 2

My son never really liked his binky, so "taking it away" wasn't that difficult. As for his bottle, we switched over to the sippy cups that have two handles on it when he was about a year old. It wasn't because we were afraid of messing his teeth up, but rather that he was drinking too much, and I was changing him all the time. Once I switched over to the 2 handled sippy cups he had to work more for his fluids, but I found that if I used any other kind of cup it was too difficult for him to get the fluid out of them.

Answer 3

When our daughter turned one a few months ago, we just stopped giving her bottles. She was only using one bottle in the morning and one bottle at night so, we just started giving her her milk in sippy cups and it worked.  She didn't even notice and she's been off the bottle ever since. Good Luck!

Answer 4

I agree with a previous poster..take them away,throw them away and have her help you..keep one stashed just incase ya know...maybe breakin her from both at once is too much but eventually she'll get used to it

Answer 5

Why do you want her off the bottle?  She's only a year old.  Don't buy that load of crock from people who tell you that taking babies off the bottle and pacifiers at one year of age will save their teeth from malformation.  I know plenty of kids who were taken off bottles at one year old and have a mouth full of crooked teeth and now wearing braces.  

My advice to you is to let her have her bottle and paci until you truly sense she is ready to transition.  NOT because you are caving into peer pressure.  Our generation has accepted the notion that you need to "fix it" even if it isn't broken.  Your daughter is still a baby, let her transition into toddlerhood at her own pace, not what your peers impress on you because they don't have the backbone to stand on their own.

Answer 6

Please don't listen to all these dummies telling you to just take them away. This is not good for the child. What you should do is make it a celebration. Throw all the bottles away together. Then you present her with a new sippy cup with ballons and streamers so she won't see it as losing her bottles but turning into a big girl and gaining a cup. This is the least traumatic way in my opinion

Answer 7

When my daughter turned 1...I introduce her to the sippy cup and she got use to it...but one month later after her bday i took her baby bottles away.

Answer 8

I think that you should do on e at a time.  I like the idea of having her throw them all away.  Then she is the one doing it.  What worked for us is to by sippy cups or non leaking water bottles and have this be the source of drinks.  It worked for us, so give it a try.

Answer 9

What my parents did for me, (because I was using the bottle and binky at three!) (the doctor suggested this) is said your bottle is broken and we can't buy anymore.  Your binky is broken and they don't make them anymore.  And I just said OK!!!!!!!!! I have no clue if this will help with you and your daughter, but that is what happened to me.  On the other hand, my cousin has a son.  And he is 3 and he still uses his binky.  My cousin would just go up to him and say, big boys don't use binkys, and she'd take it away from him.....

Answer 10

Throw all the bottles away at once. Let her see you do it so she knows they are gone. Taking away the bottle will give you a few days of h**l, so I'd wait to get rid of the pacifier for a week or so (basically until she's forgotten about the bottle).

Answer 11

Hi,

We did things the same way, we began by transitioning her early on with a cup for juice/water and after her 1st birthday we simply took the bottle away. She never protested and took to the transition easily. Out of sight, out of mind! Good luck!