14 month old and bottles

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My boys are still on 4 bottles of between 100 - 150mls and when I last spoke to the Karitane nurse she said do whatever works for the boys.

Why do you need to get rid of bottles?

My DS is nearly 2 and he still has one bottle of 200mls at night. Without this bottle he would have no milk in a day and to be honest I don't care that he still has a bottle. Its only once a day and it means he can snuggle in and get cuddles while drinking it.

At 14 months DS was at DC so we had dropped down to 2 bottles. He had his night one and would sometimes have one before his afternoon nap if he was hard to settle.

Jaye is 14 months and we have just dropped his afternoon bottle. Instead he is having afternoon tea. Will hopefully have the morning bottle gone in the next couple of months. I am ok with him having his 240ml nightcap for a while longer.
He has been using a sipper cup with no return valve for ages but he hasn't quite grasped the fact that if he drops his cup it spills!

The recommendation is two milk drinks (or equivalent dairy servings) per day for toddlers from 12 months. Peads and dentists recommend changing to cups as soon as possible from 12 months, definitely by 18 months. Apart from the teeth reasoning, there is also the fact that they need to lose the suckling to gain some changes needed for speech later on.

I changed Jake by firstly giving him the day milk in a cup with the non-spill valve removed (so it flowed faster) - putting a small amount of milo in helped too - then a couple of months later I gave him the night milk in a cup before his bath but still let him have a bottle after the bath at first - this resulted in him drinking more in total and peeing thru his night nap though! So after a couple of days I just offered the cup after his bath - he looked at me like I was mad the first night but drank it and was fine from then on. A few days later I changed it to before / during the bath so his teeth could be cleaned after the bath (he used to have the bottle after teeth were cleaned, the dental nurse told me off!!) and that was it. He still has a cup of milk before his bath.

Thomas has 2 bottles a day - 200ml at breakfast and the same after dinner. He will drink water from his sippy cup but not his formula, so i'm not really worried at this stage. He's happy and healthy and thats all that matters :D

Hi, my bubs is just over 13 months and she stopped her bottles about six weeks ago - won't let us near her at all (or the ladies at daycare). She has always cut out a bottle before she should! I have started giving her rice bubbles in the morning with cows milk and she LOVES it and she has yoghurt, cheese etc thru out the day. I have been leaving her sippy cup on the coffee table, her exersaucer (easy access places) and she just took to it and its fun after watching mummy doing it a couple of times - she happily drinks water from it put formula in and she won't touch it.

emz wrote: There are theories/research that suggests you can do damage to teeth/gums if bottles are kept long term. Dentists recommend around 12-18 months I think to get rid of them. You would probably find if you up her calcium intake in other areas (yoghurt, cheese etc) that you can take away the bottles, or just reduce to 1. As for sippy cup, just start doing it - she'll either drink it or she won't.

yeah they said that about dummy too and now they change there mind.........its the way they suck with the teat pushing there teeth if they hold it correctly and suck correctly then its not an issue

Caden has 2 bottles a day sometimes 3 depending.

He used to have one at breakfast but he just dicks around with that one, so now he has it at his nap time, and then another bottle at bedtime at night.

If he is grumpy or upset etc then he often has some milk as it calms him down.