Toddler Weaning off bottle

Feeding & Nutrition

Weaning toddler from bottle is a very common, however weaning off bottle in toddlers can be a tough task. Most children can drink from a cup with assistance by the time they can hold their head steady while sitting - about six months. By nine months, many can handle a trainer cup (a cup with a lid containing a spout) on their own, and start using a small, regular cup around twelve to fifteen months. if your baby has not become attached to her bottle as a comfort object, it shouldn't be hard to wean to a cup.

While there is no benefit to weaning early, waiting too long just tends to make the process of weaning off bottle more difficult. A good plan is to start when your baby is six to nine months and gradually increase the frequency of drinking from a cup a your child gets better and better at it. At some point, you and your child can agree that the bottles aren't really getting used much, and its time to give them to a baby who needs them.

Its not uncommon, though, for toddlers to get locked into battles with their parents over the bottle feeding. The child wants to keep it, the parents want her to give it up. the parents plead or try to make deals, the toddlers holds out. The parents take the bottles, the toddler has a tantrum and refuses the cup. Eventually, the parents given in. Everyone feels angry.

if you find yourself in this situation, there are a couple of ways you can implement. one is simply to make the bottles disappear. you are sure to face a tantrum, or a string of tantrums spread out over a few days, but in the end your toddler will accept fluids from a cup and stop yearning for the bottle.

A less drastic approach is to insist that the bottle is for meals only, not for carrying around during the day or sleeping with at night. once that's been established, you can gradually replace the bottle with a cup, one meal at a time. Another technique is to water down the milk in the bottle, adding a little more water each week until it is all water, while still serving milk in a cup. usually before getting to this point, Toddlers decide that the stuff from the cup (undiluted milk) tastes better. Weaning off bottle for the toddler becomes more easy.

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