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Pediatricians want kids to be weaned from bottles around their first birthday. I would give him water in his bottle to get him love it less. Put his milk in a sippy. Until he gets used to this, put a lot of milk in the food he eats so that he gets enough.

Don't EVER let him walk around with the bottle. Kids end up carrying their bottles with dirty fingers on the nipples, dropping them on the ground, etc. He can only sit down in the kitchen to drink from the bottle. This will help him lose interest, and then the bottle disappears one day.

Good luck.

So let him keep his bottle. Not a big deal really. He won't go to college with it. Heck would you want someone giving you coffee in a sippy if you loved your mug. I think not. Lol. Life is too short. Let him enjoy his bottle.

Why does he have to stop drinking from the bottle? If he needs to suck he'll just find something else to suck on, like a thumb, a finger, the corner of a blanket...sucking a finger or thumb is a lot more harmful to a child's jaw bones than a soft rubber nipple.

Milk is milk is milk is milk.

Milk is milk no matter what it comes out of. Our mouth makes the same shape to suck a bottle as it does to suck a straw.

My point is that if he really wants the bottle and it really really is not harmful to him then why battle about it? He can drink his milk from a bottle for another year and it would not hurt him in any way.

So, is it really something he "has" to do? or is it just a "thing" you want him to do? Battling over things that don't have any real consequences is a hard way to spend your time. It's just so much easier to do when they are ready to give it up. They just hand it to you and they're done.

If he is ok to drink water from a sippy cup, then your solution is to eliminate milk for a little bit. He will get his dairy from other sources - cheese, yougurt etc. If he says "baba" or whatever he says to indicate he wants his bottle with milk in it.... just say "no milk from baba.... water in cup today". You can eventually add "would you like milk from a SIPPY CUP?" Eventually he will say yes, but it may take a few weeks.

You just have to stay strong during the transition. If he "LOVES" his sippy, he may be hard to deal with.... but if you give in, you're teaching him the lesson that HE is in control.

If he can drink other liquids from a regular glass then he doesn't need the bottles. Toss them on garbage day and although me might be a bit cranky for a couple days he won't miss them. Once they are gone if he asks for a bottle have him help you look for them. When you don't find them tell him they must be all gone.

I just spoke with our daughter about how on her 1st birthday th bottles would be "all gone. "

I took her to the store and let her pick out a sippy cup.
I also picked out one, so she could have a choice.

The night before her birthday I threw the all away.. So the next day I asked her, do you want milk or water in your sippy cup?

We never looked back.. There were no bottles, so no choice. If they are gone, they are gone..

Does he use a pacifier? Maybe when he wants a bottle tell hm they are all gone, but he can use his pacifier and have a sippy cup to drink from. ..

I never worried about it. Son no. 1 stopped at 17 months, no. 2 at a year, he literally refused a bottle, no. 3 at about 18 months. I see no problem with a older baby/ young toddler using a bottle. So many changes at that time, walking, milk etc. why worry over the bottle, IMO. Good luck!

Many different way.

Take it cold turkey and deal with the fight that will ensue.

Switch what goes in the bottle, and sippy's. Bottle has only water, cups have everything else. There will still be some resistance, but you aren't actually getting rid of the bottle.

Hold off a little longer, make bottle for only nap and bedtime, then slowly transition away from that.

There is really no right or wrong, or a method that works best. Every child is different, but you do have to pick one, and stick with it.

I never really worried about it.
Our son went from bottle, to sippy cup, to sports bottle.
He'd drink anything from a cup - but cups spill a whole lot easier.
I was in favor of anything that kept spills to a minimum.

Be glad he'll take it from a bottle. My son was breastfed and never really had a bottle, so when he weaned from the breast he wouldn't drink milk in anything. Has been great with sippys or cups with water or juice, but never would take more than a sip of milk.

My 2yo never took to sippy cups. He drinks water. juice, and milk from tumblers his size. He drinks his formula from a bottle. It's the only thing that he will drink from a bottle and the only way that he will drink it. I don't make an issue of it. When he's done, he'll drop it. Until then, I feel good about his nutrition.