How Do You Wean A Botle Fed Baby Off Their Bottle?
This is a step by step guide for parents of a one year old or older. This can be used as a reference of tips and ways to slowly wean your bottle fed baby off thier bottle. This is usually not an easy process, so don’t give up! 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. Next you want to introduce a soft tipped sippy cup. This makes bottle transition the easiest as it feels like a bottle nipple. 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 ne
