Things You'll Need:
- Soft tip sippy cup
- Patience
- Stuffed animal or favorite blanket
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Step 1
The first step in slowly weaning your baby from their bottle is to introduce a favorite animal or blanket. This way they will use the object as security and not their bottle. It's best to introduce something when they are about 6 months old, but if they are older, it's fine too. Everytime, they are upset or crying, give them the object while you hold them, this way they realize mommy/daddy is comforting them and so is this object.
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Step 2
Next you want to introduce a soft tipped sippy cup. This makes bottle transition the easiest as it feels like a bottle nipple.
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Step 3
Start offering the sippy cup with milk instead of their first bottle of the day. Do this for about a week. Then once they are use to not getting that first bottle, you can begin offering the sippy cup for the next bottle of the day. The hardest two bottles with be the nap bottle and nap time bottle.
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Step 4
Be presistent. Continue to offer the sippy cup instead of the bottle. When they go down for their nap, give them their "lovey" whatever object they have become attached too. Remember the listen for your childs cry, if it's a long cry- they need you- if it's bursts of cries, they will soothe themselves.
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Step 5
Some babies adjust to having no bottle easily while others have problems getting use to no bottle. Just be patient and offer their sippy cup isntead of a bottle. The key is to do this gradually. Each bottle you cut out, should take about a week, if not longer before you move onto the next bottle.
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Step 6
Try not to wean your child when they are sick or going through a different difficult transition, such as moving or teething.
