Children are to be weened off formula and bottles at 1 year.

yes, all my kids were weened by right around a year and drinking from a regular cup. I made the mistake with one of them of giving her a pacifier. Whatever you do, don't get caught up in that mistake. It was the hardest habit to break her of.

My son was off formula and off the bottle at 13 months. My daughter is a different story. She was off formula at 10 months, but she is almost 2 ans still has the occasional bottle. She gave up the pacifier willingly at 7 months old and the bottle is her only vice. If she is in a good mood at bedtime then no bottle, but sometimes she is just too cranky to deal with and I give in and give her a bottle. Usually it is just water, but having it calms her down enough to get her to fall asleep.

My daughter started eating at 8 months. By the time she was 11 months she was off the bottle and on a cup. I don't know how things will go with my son. Since he isn't yet a month old, I guess I have some time. Every kid is different. As long as he is healthy, I wouldn't worry too much.

Every child like every person is different. I have three children and can see how different they are. All my children were off the formula when they were eleven months. all my children were off the bottle by the time they were thirteen months. potty training was different. my first was trained by the time he was a little over two. my daughter was potty trained by the time she was two and my other son was potty trained when he was about a year and a half. If you feel your baby is not ready then he's probably not. go with your instinct.

I am a firm believer that a Mother knows their child best. If you do not feel that your child is ready to be off the formula, than leave him on it a little while longer. I am sure it is not causing him any harm at all. I took all of my kids' bottles away frm them the day they turned one year old. They did have sippy cups and the length of time they used them varied from one kid to the next. I also took all of them off of formuls when they turned one year old. My kids all ate well, or at least I felt they did. They would not sit and eat a lot at one time, but would eat throughout the day, picking at things here and there. Today, they are all happy and healthy and all a good weight for their ages. As I said before, a Mother knows her child the best, and you need to do what youfeel is right for your child.

Oh I totally agree with that recommendation. I weened all my children off at 1 year and put them straight onto cups. Can't think of anything worse than seeing a child sucking on the end of a bottle. It's not good for their development. My sister still has her son on a bottle and he is almost 3 for crying out loud. The poor little man is forever having ear problems and a runny nose. His speach is not very good either. I mean, how can you talk properly if you've always got a bottle jammed into your mouth. She uses it as a comforter. Not a good idea. Don't believe in pacifiers either. At the end of the day the choice is yours. Have to say as well, keeping them on the formula shouldn't hurt them. In fact, they'd still be getting all the nutrients they need. Happy mothering

My oldest son drank from a bottle and moved on to a cup at age one. However my youngest son has spina bifida and acts young for his age. He is 19 months old and he still drinks from a baby's bottle. I have tried to get him to drink from a beaker but he gets upset and hardly drinks any of the soya milk. At playgroup the staff try to get him to have his soya milk in a cup. It gets spilled all the place and he ends up soaking wet. I have been to see a dietitian and she said for me to reduce the amount of soya milk and to keep trying to get my son to give up his bottle. He eats food but is very picky. He is vegan and he soya formula is full of vitamins. He will be drinking it until his diet is a normal vegan one.

A lot of times a child is more attached to the bottle for security purposes. Just having that thing in their hands and the sucking action is just a calm security to them. Like taking away a pacifier. It is all about security. I took both my kids and both my grand daughters off bottles and pacifiers and no problem at all! Start with a sippy cup - they have fun cute ones these days so let your child pick out his own cup! LEt the child help fill it! My 2 yo was off bottle at just before a year. she loved straws! I just got those sippy cups that had the hole in the top for drinking purposes and stuck a straw in there and she loved it! Now, she loves to "make her own". when i do milk, she'll say "you get the milk I'll get the pink". And I give her pink milk - she loves it and that little skant 1/4 tsp of strawberry syrup is enough to get her to drink a whole 8oz or mor of milk. I've tried the milk and can barely taste the strawberry flavor but I think she just likes making it herself more than what it ends up tasting like! Her aunt also just had a baby about htat time so they told her she should give her bottles to him cause she was a big girl now and he was just a baby and he couldn't drink with a straw adn that helped too. ANd if they get reliante on the bottle for to long, that makes it a habit to break, not a "weening" issue. And if you do it young enough, they haven't figure that out yet! It is easier to get them to do things, before they get to smart to figure out they don't want to do it that way! And also I think lot of the issues stems from moms just being buzy and not having time (or making it) for themselves to adjust to a sippy cup instead of a bottle. A bottle is a "here take it and go so I can finish this" thing and you know no spills will follow. A sippy cup can have a spill, howver, in looking at them for my GD, they make them pretty good now that even if it is tipped, it is more a drip than a spill and it is so small and takes awhile to drip out that you can grab it before it gets to that point. Then you can say things like "oh, get Bob the BUider before he falls over" or "Don't let Blue's Clue's fall off the table.. he might bump his nose" or something like that with relation to the child's favorite character on the bottle. Give them some responsibility (at least that is what we call it) to them it would be just taking care of their character! Give them a reason to do something and while they are small they will learn. Thing is you want to start this at an early age - those little guys get smart really fast! Just cause they are babies, doesn't mean they are stupid! Adults are so over whelmed with life, but thoselittle minds are free and clear! To display this... my 2 yo (almost 3) GD, we have been potty training her for few months. she is doing just great. No more pull ups except at night and if the mother would do better about not drinking right at bed time and going potty last thing before bed, she wouldn't have those, but another story for another time. But yesterday I had her and she was in panites and I let her play with this easel and ink markers and stuff. She was having so much fun playing "school" and making "banners", she forgot about going potty. I forgot to remind/ask her. THen she says "I have to go potty", Usually I drop and run her in. But for some reason I didn't this time.. .was busy with something. about 10 minutes later she calmly said, "I'm standing her going potty" and sure enough she was. I think in this case she just enjoys the trip to the potty with me as I make a big deal of it to encourage her to go and get off diapers. I think she just missed that! Cause after she went, she started taking her clothes off saying "now I have to have a bubble bath cause I stink" So she isn't just fogetting, she just got overly interested and I didn't pay attention!

All three of my boys had no interest in formula milk or ordinary milk from around 5 months to be honest with you, once they started having food they did not want it and had water instead. With my daughter it was different from a year she went onto cows milk and she is still on it!! She does like water or juice but prefers to have a cup of milk and she will have that out of a sippy type cup.

I started showing my two kids a sippy cup at the age of 6 months. By 9 months, they both were off the bottle and drinking from a cup. I kept them a cup of milk or juice out all the time. They were also eating very good by then. My daughter took all of her 4 kids off the bottle early too, and had them trained to drink out of a cup by then, also.

If he is drinking formula then that is filling him up so of course he is not going to eat. It is also important for babies not to have cows milk until they are atleast one year old. When my son turned one I bought lactose free milk at first and then slowly switched to whole milk. My two year old still takes a bottle whenever he feels like it. Usually before he goes to sleep. (Does not sleep with bottle in his mouth). Him having a drink whether in a cup or bottle really isn't going to hurt anything. I figure it could always be worse, I could be walking around with him still on the boob.

Hi kats I wouldn't worry until you have to pack the bottle in a lunchbox for school My two were just the opposite. I used to jokingly say that I was going to have to pack my oldest one a bottle for school. He was so attached and not a good eater either. He didn't give it up unitl he was 2. Now the youngest one came along 7 years later and he gave it up on his own at about 10 months old. So go figure! All kids are different and trust you instincts, you know whether he is ready or not. I adopted my sisters baby and I got him at 11 months old and was afraid it would be too much change with everything going on so I waited and he gave it up at 14 months. None of mine were typical "book" babies! LOL Good Luck!

In the first 4 months my son's food is formula absolute. After then we give him some egg and pulpy food and fomula. After 1 year old he mainly eats food which is made alonely. Now he is 2 years old and he drinks formula (for stage 3)one time a day. I'll give him milk when he is 3 years old later.