How to wean off my 12 mnth old from bottle?

Question

I know its too late , but some or the other kept coming and my baby is on bottle since she was born, Now shes an year old and i try to introduce sippy cup but this effort has failed so many times. She just wants her milk from the bottle and keeps crying and wont take sippy cup no matter how hungry she is. On the other hand she drinks water from sippy cup very well. What should I do to wean her off from the bottle?

Answer 1

Why are you weaning her! If she drinks water from a sippy cup why are you taking away her bottle? She is still a baby! I let my nearly 3 yr old still have his bottle of milk! I was pushed into taking my 16 yr olds bottle off him when he was 3! And quite honestly I wish i had told my mum to mind her own business! All my 4 kids have had bottles to an old age, my 16 yr old has strong healthy straight teeth and no speech problems! Like I was warned would happen! Let her have her bottle ! Give yourself a break! It is not a big deal! Good luck, and let her have her comfort!

Answer 2

get a transitional bottle....they are still soft top like a bottle but shaped more like a sippy cup top.....my 19 month old will still only drink her milk and only milk out of that 'cup'.....she drinks juice and water out of her sippy cups. She is just now starting to drink milk out of a cup every once and awhile

Answer 3

get a transitional bottle..... :-)

it has a rubber top like the nipple of the bottle.

but its in a form of a sippy cup! :-) its from gerber Graduates.

Answer 4

put a drink she doesnt like in the bottle.  Only allow her to have the bottle at night.  Put her favorite drink in the sippy cup

Answer 5

Why wean her from a bottle that is obviously something she is comforted with ? ?

In my own opinion, if you can't get her to take a sippy cup of milk, just let her have a bottle until she is at least a year and a half or when she turns 2.

Just limit the bottle use to nap times and night time.

Or if you really want to get her off the bottle for whatever your reason is, just get rid of all your bottles, and have only sippy cups. She will cry, but  she knows you will give in eventually. Let her cry. She won't starve herself, I promise.  

Answer 6

my daughter was almost 2 years and still was drinking her bottle, i had the same problem. UNTIL

visiting my grandmother in mexico she  told me how  and it worked!!

she just put some vinegar , all over the nipple,   she tasted the vinegar and gave me the bottle back,  that afternoon she asked me for her bottle again, and i put vinegar again,  

at night again, but she didn't care and drank  her bottle anyway.

next morning  i put mustard all over the nipple instead vinegar and she gave the bottle back,, and that happened like 2 more times  that day,

at night  i asked her you want your bottle??

and  she said no  !! yuck!!

since then  she never asked for her bottle again.

it only took 2 days,

i hope it works for you

just make sure to give to your baby something to drink after he taste the mustard or vinegar.

good luck

Answer 7

Everyone probably has a different answer here.  But, for my kids I just had to eliminate the bottles all together.  And I mean get rid of them- not have them in the house otherwise you will be tempted to use them.  Some people say to eliminate all the bottles, except for one in the evening to help soothe them and get them ready for bed.  That may work as long as they don't whine for it in the middle of the day.  You could just gradually take away 1 bottle time, then another, etc..  Since she's drinking water just fine from the sippy, you know she can use it.  So, when she cries for the bottle, it's probably just a comfort thing.

Answer 8

Try not doing that when they are older they will not drink milk which is... pretty bad because then they wont get enough calcium.

Well Gl :)  

Answer 9

try buying character sippy cups and the first few days yes they will cry but if you want whats best you're gonna have to deal with it it will end eventually trust me i have 17mths old twins