Taking away bottle cold turkey?

[Ashley1021]

I ended up giving him his bottles back. I feel so guilty! I am going to start the transition to cows milk today, by adding gradually with formula... Wish me luck!

 

[apple_20]

Good luck don't feel bad! For some that's the way to do it (DS had no issues with cold turkey) others need it more gradual,

Fingers crossed this way works !

 

[crazy4baby09]

When I was wanting to get my son off of formula at first I added more water and less formula to his bottle so he could get used to drinking more water. When he was 11 months periodically I would give him a small amount of milk in a regular cup (I would hold it for him) just so he could experiment with the flavor. My son also didn't like sippy cups with the soft spout so I bought a few hard spout ones that were not spill proof (that way he would figure out that drinks would come out of it ) also when giving him water I would put a tiny amt of juice (apple or grape) to give it a better flavor then gradually removed it so he will drink just water. When it came to only giving my son milk I had an issue because he didn't want milk unless it was in a bottle. So i mentioned this to his Dr and she said to offer the milk in a sippy cup with every meal and put one drop of chocolate syrup in it. It worked like a charm and within 2 wks I stopped putting chocolate syrup in it and he drinks the milk fine. He will only drink out of hard spout sippys though.