Formula-milk and bottle-straw transitions
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Anonymous
| FTM to an 11 month old, a bit overwhelmed about these two upcoming transitions. Which did you prioritize first, and how did you go about each? Baby already drinks water from a straw cup but gets upset if we give her formula with a straw. |
Anonymous
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If they are good at the straw, I would just start only offering all liquids with a straw only. Then after a few minutes switch to the nipple so they get the milk. We cold turkey switched both my kids from nipples to straws at 12 months and they figured out pretty quick they got more faster with straws.
For transitioning from formula to milk, we did it over about four weeks by slowing increasing the amount of milk vs formula each week until it was all milk. |
Anonymous
| You gradually phase bottles out of the routine. You don’t feed formula in a cup. |
Anonymous
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We did it together. Never put formula in a sippy, never put regular milk in a bottle.
We had always done bottle, then right into the high chair for food, except at dinner when we did it the other way around (food, then bottle, then bed). By 11 months, we were at four “meals” a day (bottle and food) - breakfast lunch, snack (which was really another full meal), and dinner - 8am, noon, 4pm, and 7:30. Once they hit 12 months, we just started dropping bottles. Pick a meal, skip the bottle, go right to the high chair, give a sippy of milk and a sippy of water with food. Wait a week or two, then do another. We were 100% done with bottles and formula both times by 14 months. Had two really different experiences with it - my first would be SO MAD the first couple days each time about no bottle. He would just sit in the high chair and cry for a bit, ate really poorly for that meal, wouldn’t have so much as a sip of milk from the cup. But after a couple days he’d get over it and start chugging regular milk from the sippy. My second didn’t really care, but also never drank much regular milk (a couple sips a few times a day - never more than about 3 oz total for the day and sometimes none). Both of those outcomes are fine! |
Anonymous
| Agree to not mix formula/bottles and sippy cups/milk. I wouldn’t worry about a straw cup just yet. Focus on transitioning from formula to whole milk (be mindful of constipation) first and then introduce a straw cup. And I would do straw cup for water only. Washing milk out of a straw cup 👎 |
Anonymous
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I used pumped milk and didn't think it would be different but from above guess so. We cold turkey stopped bottles at 12 months and switched to straw cups and gradually increased portion of cow milk to breast milk in each cup until it was fully cow ( like 1 oz cow 3 oz best
Breast, 2,/2. 3,1) |
Anonymous
Yeah, we have never used straw cups or sippy (other than at daycare which requires it). Both kids went straight to open cup and have always used that at home. |
Anonymous
It’s actually beneficial to do straws as early as possible since the sucking reflex is still intact or something. I’m past that stage but remember hearing it’s easier to teach them earlier because of it. Also confused why you can’t mix. I would just use whatever vessel you are currently using with whatever milk. If you are transitioning off formula to regular milk just use the same vessel while transitioning. |
Anonymous
I’m the long poster at 11:52. Because then you have to do twice as many transitions, and in my experience, people then wait way too long to ditch the bottle and it’s MUCH harder. I knew many 2 and 3 year olds still drinking regular milk out of a bottle at bedtime (and one FIVE year old). And that’s MUCH harder to deal with then a 12 month old. |