bottle to sippy

[Anonymous]

any advice on how to transition dc? he is 12 months and loves water/juice from sippy not so much milk

[Anonymous]

best advice is to go cold turkey. I didn't with first and it took forever to get off the bottle, with the my second cold turkey-- one week of drama and then it was all over (throw them out so you are not tempted). Good luck!

[Anonymous]

You should do a search on this forum. This topic comes up a LOT. Anyway my take is that it's not so bad for a 12-month old to continue drinking milk out of a bottle. In my case, my son was just not ready to give up his bottle, so I didn't force the issue. Just don't let them go to sleep with the bottle, clean their teeth before bedtime, etc. We transitioned him off very easily at 18 months.

[Anonymous]

We are almost done transitioning at 17 months. I started introducing water in a sippy at 10 months, but she would not take milk except from breast or bottle. Kept trying sippy a little every day. In the past couple of months, I started putting a little bit of juice in her water and she started drinking more from sippies. Then, I have started to give her sippy cup of milk in the morning and evening (when she used to take a bottle) and she really doesn't seem to mind. In the past month or so, I just removed the bottle (except on emergencies) and she didn't seem to notice.