How to Transition My Baby from Warm Bottle to Cold Bottle

Try warming the whole milk some but not as much, and then gradually you can get him on the cold one . It shouldn't take long..

HI, I give mine cold milk in a sippy cup at meals and he still takes his warm bottles at nap and bed... He is 19 months old... He will eventually not want the bottle at nap then bed...

Good luck
A. J

I would start serving the whole milk in a sippy cup. See if he will take it. If not, then begin mixing the cold milk with his warm formula, a little at a time and increasing it until it is all cold milk. That is my advice but take it for what's it worth. I used to make my son's formula on the spot with powder and bottled water so it was room temperature and neither of them minded the cold milk.

My son just turned 1 in March and we had him converted over to a sippy cup and whole milk in like 3 weeks. I agree with the other poster; just warm the milk up less and less each day until it's cold. I know that my son liked having a warm bottle too, but when I transitioned him over to milk, he didn't so much care for it warm since whole milk tends to sour when warmed. We got the Nuby sippy cups with the silicone spouts at Walmart and he just LOVES them. They are cheap too, under $2. The big thing that I found is to let him choose that way he gets what he wants and you should get what you want: him off the bottle and onto whole milk.

Good luck and if you need any other pointers since I just went through it, message me!

~J.

D.,
First get rid of the bottle. Take him to the store and let him pick out a sippy cup to use for milk and one for water. We did this with my both my daughters who are know 14 and 7. you can still warm up his milk in the cup, but dont do it all the way. We started with half milk and half warm water. then everytime we gave them milk we used less water. In no time we were on stright milk cold. I only say get rid of the bottle because I have seen many kids including my niece who wound up with baby bottle tooth decay. Hope this helps. It will work just tell him he is a big boy know. If he needs a bottle for bed, give him his sippy cup with water in it.

I glanced at the other responses and agree that you need to get him OFF the bottle...Sippy cups are a great way to go!! My daughter was already on sippy cups before she was a year old so breaking her from the bottle was pretty easy. Definitely let him be involved in picking out the colors he likes...give him some to choose from and have him pick how ever many sippy cups you want to start with.

Most every pediatric dentist will tell you how important it is for the health of the childs teeth to get him/her off the bottle ASAP at 1 year old.

When transitioning to the sippy cup do not let him take it to bed with him...it's a new way to drink so can have new rules. It might be a little difficult the first week or so but if you do not give in, he'll be better off for it!

Good luck! :)

Start by giving him cold juice. This is what we have done with our one year old son and when we gave him the cold milk, he hesitated a little and complained about a week, but now he doesn't seem to have a problem with it at all. We also took him off the bottle and he wouldn't drink milk unless it was in a bottle, until he learned how the suck a straw and we got sippy cups with straws and now we don't have a problem at all with him.

You start by just heating it a little less everyday. We did this with my son to get him to start drinking room temp. formula. If I heated it for 25 seconds the next day I would heat it for 23 and so on until I didn't have to heat it anymore. Switching to whole milk was a little harder because it is so much colder. I just stopped giving him a bottle and giving him milk in a sippy cup. Within a couple of day he started drinking it. I did't offer him anything else to drink so I guess he really didn't have a choice :).

it is easier than you think. My youngest just turned 2. When I switched to whole milk at 1 she would not drink it cold either. I warmed it in the microwave for about 20 seconds just enough to take the chill off and eventually she stopped drinking it warmed at all. Have you tried giving it to him from a sippy cup cold? He may drink it that way. None of my 3 kids would drink whole milk from a bottle because in there mind formula was suppost to be in the bottle which was what they were used to. I warmed her milk in her sippy cup for 4 or 5 months. Hope this helps. Good luck!
K. - Haltom City, TX

I just warmed up my daughters milk and slightly took the warm up time down until it was cold milk. Took a while, but she didn't notice the subtle transition

Okay...you probably should be getting him off the bottle right now. Start taking bottles away and replacing with a sippy cup, do this for a couples of day, that way you can ween him and it won't be such a shock. What I did with my daughter who is now 6 1/2....I put the milk in the with the formula. If it was a 6oz bottle, I did 4 oz of formula and then 2 oz of whole milk. Still keeping it warm. Do that for two days and then on the third day, do 3 oz of formula, and 3 oz of milk. Then on the fifth day, 2 oz of formula and 4 oz of milk. This is really a great thing to do. My daughter was off the bottle in a week and on whole milk. Then start putting it in a sippy cup. You should really have him off the bottle, especially at night, because of cavities, by the time he is one. But if he like the milk warm, then keep warming it up for him. I hope this helps you....good luck.

change the warmth gradually and on a real hot day give him a little colder.

I've just gone through this with my 15 month old. When we switched her to milk, we still warmed it, but then each week we would warm it a little less. It takes several weeks, but she is now drinking cold milk, where previously she would turn away from it. And we started with the milk in the bottle, then transitioned to the sippy cup (one major change at a time!). Trust me, you can wait a couple of more months to wean him from the bottle . . . the tooth decay issue is only if your putting him to bed with a bottle of milk.

We had the same issues with my first daughter at that age. Basically, we just staged down the warming. When we first started her on whole milk, we warmed it the same amount as when she drank formula. After about a week, we warmed it a little less, after another week at little less again, until eventually we were able to just give it to her directly from the fridge.

We thought we would have to do the same thing with our younger daughter, but she surprised us! After always having very warm breastmilk or formula, she took to cold milk right away; we didn't even have to transition! So, my suggestion would be to first just try it cold (hey, they may surprise you). If that doesn't work, just gradually step it down. Good luck!!!

I would start offering cold milk in a sippy cup with meals and snacks and start phasing out the bottle. He might be more willing to drink the cold milk from a sippy since he doesn't associate it with the warm comfort of a bottle. Good luck!

Each baby is different/unique. Slightly warm his bottle of whole milk in the microwave on "defrost setting" for 30 seconds" to begin. As he begins to adjust to a less warmer bottle, you can heat it for a shorter period of time each instance until you don't have to heat it at all.

I started to introduce sippy cups at 10 months old in preparation for the big bottle take away!!! On their first birthday, no more bottles. They catch on quick. Then on their 3rd birthday..........bye-bye diapers, 3 yr olds can't wear diapers. That took about 2 weeks.
Good luck,
J.

It won't hurt to heat the milk up in the microwave for a couple of seconds. Then when he gets used to the temperature change, you can slowly transition him to a cold bottle.

There's no harm in warming milk, unless you just want to drop that step for your sake. I was lucky enough that my baby didn't care if her formula was warm or cold so we stopped warming when she was about 3 months old. Will he drink anything cold at all? Water or juice? Maybe if you make it a gradual difference, starting with room temp, then slightly chilled, next cold.

You can still warm up the regular milk...but it will not be re-usable if he doesn't drink it all.