How Old When You Completely Stopped Using the Bottle?

Oh I am so glad there are a few like me out there. My daughter is almost 4 and still takes a bottle before nap and a bottle before bed. I am loathe to get rid of it as she LOVES it so much and it clearly relaxes her. Hopefully by her 4th birthday, but I don't want to stress her out.

My daughter refused to take a bottle. We tried one million different nipples, cups, and situations, but she simply wouldn't take it. She started using a sippy cup, at around a year old, after never having taken to bottle feeding. So the answer for us, has been that we never used a bottle. Not by choice, it's just the way things worked out.

4th birthday (I told him it was coming) with my youngest because I was tired and let him keep using it because it was easy. My husband had a fit about it, when he was looking for a bottle and I had thrown them all out. Weird.

Note: My son is normal. :)

The day they turned one year old and I threw them all in the garbage ;)

I started all my kids on a sippy cup really young... so while it seems like there was this sudden cut off from the bottle (there was), but the LO's were prepared :)

12 Months with both of my children. The older they get the more difficult it is to take it away.

13 mos. No more breastmilk/formula, no more bottle.

Around 3 and a halfish.

It was no big deal in our house. The double walled sippy cups worked better in the daytime because they kept things warm/cold longer... but the difference between a sippy cup and a bottle is 98.2 % (to make up a stat) psychological. One has a flexible nipple, one has a rigid nipple.

The 'reason' for us to switch was that kiddo started potty training at night and really needed 16oz before bedtime. The more full his bladder, the better the signal to his brain. More liquid meant super fast training and I didn't feel like washing 2 bottles (or schelpping the empty downstairs and refilling), so we switched totally to the xlarge sippy cups.

12-12.5 months old. I began weaning to sippy cups around 11.5 months.

Never had to use a bottle with my youngest, he nursed till he was 22 mos and was already pretty cup trained when the nursing stopped. My oldest started a bottle at 5 mos because I got pregnant and ran out of my own milk. I HATED bottles! I HATED buying them, washing them, filling them, cleaning them, EVERYthing about them! So he got cup trained asap. I just checked his baby book on this so I could be accurate-- he had a cold at 14mos and couldnt really drink out of his bottle cuz of his stoppy nose, he chucked it out of frustration and I never had to give him another one. So, the answer is 14 mos old.
I never gave him a bottle in his crib so there were no sleep issues due to bottle withdrawals. But on a side note, both the boys used paci's till they were almost 2.

Three years old. She got one at naptime and at bedtime. In between she drank from regular cups.

There is no reason for denying children the comfort of sucking, as long as they aren't allowed to carry around a bottle (or sippy cup) to suck on for extended periods of time.

12 months. We went cold turkey and it was no big deal. I think we forget how resilient our children can be. If we celebrate the change as opposed to make it a struggle I think it becomes easier for them to accept.

seven months old. he did not like the bottle. he spit it out of his mouth. he took a sippy cup from that day forward.

My daughter was completely off her bottle just before 18 months. My son is 26 months right now and he still gets a bottle for bedtime only (I give it to him, he never gets it alone in his crib). I was just thinking about this the other day on how he's getting kinda old, but figured, he doesn't have any other vices, so I think it's not the worst thing to comfort him before bed.

we only gave her her formula in her bottle, so juice, milk, water, everything else was in a sippy. When we stopped formula (she was about a year and 2 months) we stopped the bottle.

12 months. It's SO much easier. No emotional attachment. No fighting, no late nights with a kid yelling for a bottle, no cavities. There is a reason pediatricians recommend taking it away, at one year. I don't do everything they say, but that is really sound advice.

1 year old, no more bottle. It wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be!

Breastfed most of the time until my twins were about 14 months old.
However, I would say until 25-26 months old is when they stopped getting a bottle. It relaxed them for a nap (they enjoyed the routine) and my mom was actually supportive about not rushing this just because so many moms take the bottle away at 12 months. She told me," Well, you still took bottles away from your baby brother to drink it when you were 4 yrs. old and you turned out fine." lol Note: I never let them have the bottle in their cribs, though. My twins are now healthy 9 years old and doing very well in third grade. So I don't think giving them a bottle for a couple of years damage them in anyway.

at 12 months my kids threw them in the trash and we never looked back

I am really surprised that so many stop at a year. My oldest got a bottle till she was 2 and she weaned herself. my 11 month old is still taking regular bottles. If I had my way my babies would be breastfeeding till they were done, but sadly breastfeeding is very painful for me. I don't really see the difference between extended breastfeeding and extended bottle feeding, especially if the babies teeth are cared for properly.

Does it matter whether it was to move to a sippy cup or regular cup?

We stopped bottles right after 1 year with all of them. Well, #4 never had a bottle on a regular basis. Two of my kids had sippy cups until they were 3, And two were using regular cups by 18 months.

I nursed my son until 10.5 months and then he went straight to sippy cup. My daughter nursed for 9 months and then took a bottle until 1yr - that week I took it away. She was already using a sippy cup by then, so no problems.

I think about 2 years. BUT my daughter never got formula/juice in her bottle. I nursed her until 19 months so she never got a bottle unless she was in daycare and at home we only used it for water at night time.

I have recently answered to another post on a discussion I had with my ped over this. He advised that giving a bottle was fine after 1 year old, as long as your kids don't suck on it constantly. For example: letting your child drink from a bottle with milk and then take it away when they are done is perfectly fine.
On the other hand letting your kids suck on a sippy with juice for three hours without a break is NOT.
He also advise not to wean from bottle to sippy, but to an open cup. There are several reasons for this: one, no kid will suck on an open cup for hours, sippies get GROSS (hygiene, they are often out for hours with sugary liquids inside them and bacteria grow in the straws, valves or spouts) and your child is less likely to run around with an open cup in his mouth. He said he sees a lot of dental injuries from kids that fall or otherwise hurt their teeth with a hard-spout sippy.
Bottom line: there is really no difference between a bottle and a sippy cup - just don't let your child suck on either for hours.
Good luck.

We stopped all but the bedtime bottle at 12 months. We switched from the bedtime bottle to a regular (not sippy) cup between 12 and 13 months. We never used a sippy cup.

I know the pedi told me to not give her one after she turned a year, but ill be honest because I love you ladies, it was more like 19 months!

The latest to stop was 15 months.

I nursed until my daughter was a year old so she only took a bottle at day care...so I started only taking sippy cups to day care and when I stopped nursing she was only on sippy cups before she was 13 months old...worked great!!

Both my kids were done by 10 months. We used a sippy cup and had no problem. I still gave them milk at bedtime (in a sippy) until probably 14-15 months but once we lost the bottle there was no looking back! My daughter was happy to get rid of it, I think she may have stopped closer to 8 months, but my son took a bit longer.

My boys never took a bottle because I nursed them both. My daughter took a bottle at six months. She continued until she was about 11 months and by that time she was very good at using a sippy cup so it was not a big deal to take it away.

12 mo, 13 mo and 18 mo.

I think my daughter stopped wanting a bottle around 15 months. I was so glad!

I thought I'd never get my older daughter off the bottle, especially when the new baby came along. They are 18 months apart. One day, about 2 months ago she literally just stopped. She happened to have a cup of milk ready to go so I handed it to her, she crawled in bed and waited for our story like usual. It was absolutely the craziest thing. I guess that would put her at about 20 months old...?

13 months, a month longer than his pediatrician advised.

1st daughter 12 months
2nd daughter 14 months (she was having milk issues so we had to keep her on formula a bit longer)

we switched out one of the daytime bottles for a cup once a week for a little over a month and she was fully off them at 14 months.

12 months! My youngest was off by 10 1/2 months.

My oldest daughter fell and broke off her baby tooth and had to go cold turkey at 13 or so months. It was hell and she started sucking her fingers and really didn't stop until she was an adolescent. He face is deformed due to this activity. Her jaw is recessed and really looks odd.

I decided to not worry about it as an issue when I started raising several of my grandchildren.

K was about 16 months and K was over 2, he brought me the bottle one day and said "Cup" and he never looked back.

Our Pediatric dentist knew and had no problems with it. People drink fluids all day long and they don't run out and brush their teeth after every cup of coffee or pop. It doesn't matter if it comes from a bottle or a cup. The fluid is the same. If the bottle has the appropriate size nipple the it won't harm their mouth shape.

If they want a bottle to go to sleep then hold them and make sure it is out of their mouth before they lay down. When a child holds a bottle in their mouth while sleeping the milk drips on their teeth and isn't rinsed off by the saliva.

Normally a person's saliva rinses the mouth and the residue from food and drink dissolve and wash away.

My eldest stopped when she was almost 13 months old because she saw other kids her age were using sippy cups. She threw a bottle and said, "NO BOTTLE! I yike cups!" I had started weaning her on her 1 yr birthday and she was doing maybe 50/50 bottle and cup until then.

My middle daughter stopped around the same age because she preferred straw sippies and regular sippies. It was a sensory thing for her.

I think my youngest daughter was 9 or 10 months old. She wanted to be a Big Girl like her sisters and bottles are not for Big Girls. She wanted straw cups and Big Girl cups. :-) If she hadn't stopped on her own I would have weaned her at a year.

My daughter is almost 2.5 and still takes a bottle at nap and bedtime. We don't stress about it, and she drinks from all kinds of cups otherwise. We'll get rid of the bottle soon.

Mine were breastfed and bottle fed while I worked. We cut the bottles out by 10 months and the breast was done at 15 months.

I think my older two were about 15 months or so, but definately before they hit 18 months. Once I had them transitioned to drinking cows milk from sippy cups at their meals, I dropped all bottle usage. It was such a relief and I could not wait!

~C.

My LO just turned 1 yr 3 weeks ago (5/18), and up until that time he was getting 3 bottles a day (one in the morning, one around 4pm, and one at bedtime), plus sippies of water throughout the day, and 3 meals per day. After his 1 yr well visit I started him on whole milk in a sippie with his meals, and I eliminated 1 bottle per week. I added in more snacks too. So in 3 weeks-one for each bottle-as of this past Friday, he is completely off the bottle and formula. Had NO problems at all, he did just fine!

My first 2 were 6-7 months then sippy cups,my last she was exclusively bfed for 14 months but did get to use a sippy @ 6 months for water.So with all 3 way before their 1st birthdays.

My oldest completely stopes at around 11 months, my youngest at around 13 months.. We stopes as soon as possible

Hi,
My son just turned 2 years old and I went for his first dentist visit. He was shocked to know that my son was still using bottle. As per my pediatrician, infants should stop using a bottle at 1 year. Quiet in shock, I came home and stashed away all his bottles and bought the Take and Toss cups with straw. He took to it easily. Great outcome was that he stopped drinking milk in the middle of the night. Its been a great relief.

Hope this was helpful.

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My son was 11 months when we switched him to whole milk and said bye-bye to the bottle.

My daughter was about 15 months when we said bye-bye to the bottle. She had a harder time using a sippy cup than her brother so it took longer.

Somewhere around 15 months. She was only using a bottle for pumped milk a couple times a day after 12 mo. and was mostly using a sippy cup except for milk. I changed jobs and she left daycare so I just stopped bottles altogether. She did nurse til she was 2.5, but that was mostly just a few minutes at night at the end.

You're 'supposed to' transition to a cup at 12 months, but my son was 17 months. After 12 months, I bought the toddler formula for a while. He was fully capable of drinking from a sippy cup or regular cup, but I wanted him to get the extra nutrition a little longer [VERY picky eater] since they can't have chewable vitamins until 2 years [tried poly-vi-sol, but it was a huge struggle every time], and it was more bonding time, and also helped him drift off to sleep [very important because he still is not a good sleeper even now, at 3.5 years]. We did what worked for us.

My son was 14 months when he was 100% off the bottle.

A little over 2. One day he decided he didn't want it anymore and he went right to a regular cup w/ no lid. My second is 17 months and still takes a bottle, but drinks from sippy cups and straws a lot. He mostly gets bottles when it's bed and nap time. I am a firm believer in letting your child tell you when they are ready for something.

We did the same thing with potty training and it took less than a weekend to get him trained. It was so easy on him and us.

around their 1st birthdays for both of mine.

My son was 15 months he was totally off, including at night.

! year old, we had no problems.

I had for about 2 weeks been talking with her about how 1 year olds are big girls. they drink from sippy cups.

I tooke her to Target and let her pick out a cup, I then also picked out 1. I placed them on the kitchen counter and each day talked about how she was going to "get to drink" from her sippy cups.

The night before her birthday I got rid of every bottle and all of the paraphernalia. On the morning of her birthday, as I was getting her breakfast ready, I asked her, "do you want milk or juice in your sippy cup?" We never looked back.

At her party it seemed like everyone gave her a sippy cup, so I was always able to give her choices for her to decide which cup she wanted to drink from. Even her cup of milk before bed.