When to wean off bottles and holiday advice?

[golcarlilly]

Just wondering by what age babies should be drinking from a cup exclusively and no longer using bottles? We are going abroad when Myles is 10 months and unsure how to sterilise bottles as I am sure he will still be having them?

 

[Sparkleyone]

The general advice is to have babies off a bottle by their 1st birthday (much easier said than done) I dont personally know of many babies who were off their bottle by this time scale - most I know will drink from a cup at this age, but still had a few bottles, particularly a bedtime one.

As for bottles when abroad, I always used my travel steriliser - this one https://www.bloomingmarvellous.co.u...acticalproducts&ProductID=5053&language=en-GB or you can buy steriliser bags if where you're staying has a microwave, or use the cold water sterilisation method.

Xx

 

[Mum2b_Claire]

I've no idea how to wean off bottles - Ruby is 10 months and is happy to drink 30-60ml of water from a Doidy cup but won't touch milk in it! I'm aiming to have her off her afternoon bottle by a year but no hope for the morning and evening bottles in that timescale.

 

[huggybear]

You can get from boots these bags that are travel sterilisers, they are drawstring bags with two sterile tablets inside, you basically just add 5 litres of water to, we used these when we too LO on holiday back in the summer, they were great

 

[joeyjo]

If where u r staying has a kitchen u can put bottles in a pan and boil for 5 min - saves taking anything with u.

 

[golcarlilly]

I think I will just go for the boiling method as we have such small luggage allowance I need to take as little possible with us (need room for clothes!!!) Thanks ladies