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Two Blondinis
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Topic: when to stop using a bottle? Posted: 15 August 2007 at 3:23pm |
a couple of people have "suggested" that Caitlin doesn't need a bottle with teat anymore because she is having her water/juice in a sports bottle with a straw (or mini pump bottle) and her milk in a sippy cup. Her only bottles (with teats) are the 4pm supper time and 7pm bedtime.
I can't see any pros OR cons in keeping her on bottles with teats until she is old enough and able to have a big girl cup?!?!?
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Posted: 15 August 2007 at 3:42pm |
I kept up with Ella's bottles with teats until she decided she didn't want them anymore. I think she was about 18 months or so.
She was only having one bottle at night by that stage but it never occurred to me to change it to a sipper!
I don't think there's any 'right' way to do it, so if she's happy swapping between teats and sippers I wouldn't worry about changing.
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Posted: 15 August 2007 at 4:40pm |
It's just when you are ready. Because we didn't do formula, we were on sipper cups only at 12mos and no more feeds from that point (just water, milk, milo).
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Posted: 15 August 2007 at 6:40pm |
Andrew stopped at about 18 months old. At that age he was only having a bottle at preschool and one at night. Preschool started by taking away the bottle first and then I did at night. He was fine with it.
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Posted: 15 August 2007 at 8:45pm |
We're kind of in the same position actually...My mum gives Alyssa a bottle with teat for milk when I'm at work, although since I'm still breastfeeding she isn't interested in a bottle from me (I really must get around to weaning haha). I don't reckon it's an issue considering they are already drinking from straws and sippy cups anyway? It's just a nice way for them to wind down and get ready for a sleep
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Posted: 15 August 2007 at 9:35pm |
I have never thought of when to get rid of the bottle. Tyrell is only having a bottle at bed time now. (with a teat) Maybe I will try a sippy cup and see what happens.......
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Posted: 16 August 2007 at 12:55pm |
maddy only has 2 bottles a day now in the morning and at night i have tried to give her milk in a sipper cup but she won't take it that way.
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Posted: 16 August 2007 at 3:07pm |
ummmm jack still has a bottle at night in bed and he's almost 3
i figure he'll let me know when he's ready to quit....or am i just deluding myself?
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Posted: 17 August 2007 at 11:50am |
Joshie still has 3 bottles a day - morning, after sleep and before bed. I've been wondering when to cut these out too...
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Posted: 17 August 2007 at 7:54pm |
Lockie still has three bottles a day, he's not that interested in his afternoon bottle these days and only drinks half of it, so think I will look at cutting that one out very shortly.
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Posted: 17 August 2007 at 10:17pm |
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Posted: 17 August 2007 at 10:44pm |
You know I will not worry about the bottle at this stage at all. Babies and toddlers still have a need to suck. Just as long as they will take some stuff from a sippy cup I wouldnt worry at all. McKayla still has boob and never really took to a bottle or a dummy. But at a year she started wanting her hot chock at night in a bottle. She takes everything else from a sippy cup. (I got her onto a cup from the word go). If the bottle is not in the cupboard for her milk at night she goes for the sippy cup.
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Posted: 17 August 2007 at 10:46pm |
joshierocks wrote:
Joshie still has 3 bottles a day - morning, after sleep and before bed. I've been wondering when to cut these out too... |
Like I said kiddies still have a need even up to 5 to suck. I think we actually try to make kids grow up too fast sometimes. Who walks faster, who give the boob up first. Who didnt give boob up first. Kiddies sleeping through at night ect ect. Hey these kids will do everything and anything when they are ready for it.
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Posted: 18 August 2007 at 1:25pm |
Cailin is over 2 and she still has her bottle with teat once or twice a day. There is something about teeth that they recommed not to use a teat when the can use a cup..but I can't think for the life of me why so I have kept up with Cailin using a bottle
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Posted: 18 August 2007 at 1:40pm |
I know they don't like juice in a bottle on account of sugar on the teeth...
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Posted: 18 August 2007 at 2:19pm |
busymum wrote:
I know they don't like juice in a bottle on account of sugar on the teeth... |
same goes with milk or anything really cause the sucking action activates saliva which is what does the damage.. that applies to going to sleep with it anyway, or even constantly sucking on it. i know the dental nurse didnt like that toby went to bed with a sippy cup of milk.
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Posted: 19 August 2007 at 6:18pm |
I introduced a sippy cup at 6-8mths with all of my kiddies with water in. Bottles and formula got chucked at 12mths and they only have water or full fat milk. Everyone is different and its a personal choice when you want to stop.
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Posted: 24 August 2007 at 10:25am |
I think as long as they are able to drink from sippy cups etc as well then it's no big deal. I put chloe on a non spill sippy cup at 5mths as well as BF but it was more of a toy with water in it than anything else.
I took the bottles away from Miya at 10mths but only because she would bite off bits of the teat and I was worried she would choke. Thats probably the only time that they shouldn't have bottles.
And I think most teats these day come in the oradontic(sp?) design so they don't harm their teeth.
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Posted: 24 August 2007 at 12:45pm |
Ok I must be a bad mummy or maybe just lazy, my older girls both had bottles until they turned 4!!!! When I finally told them that big girls don't need bottles and we put then in the bin together and they were fine with that.( I had warned them before their b'day that this would happen) Neither of them even asked again. By then they were only having one bottle in the evening anyway and it really didn't bother me much.
Oh and both girls teeth were fine. They had the bottle then brushed and went to bed. They have only ever had water in any type of drink bottle/sipper cup from then on and juice only out of a glass (when they got older).
The dental nurse said it is sipper bottles with juice that are the problem with the front tooth decay as they suck the juice through the front teeth and the constant intake of sugar during the day not just in one hit.
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