I weaned my daughter cold turkey. I started it over a long weekend. I would only give her milf from a sippy cup. She put up a fight at first and refused it. I would keep offering her milk in a cup about every half hour. After about 2 hours after her fighting it she began drinking her milk from it. I think some of my problem was she hadn't had too much expereince drinking from a cup. It sounds like your daughter knows how to drink from the cup already! My daughter still drinks a cup of milk before bed and she is 20 months. We use that as our cuddle time before bed, so I don't think you necessarily have to take the milk away at bed.

My daughter is almost 18 months and still gets three bottles a day. We do juice from a cup. I keep trying to give her milk from a cup but she just won't drink it. I would like some advice too. I am a bit "old school" in some of my ways so I don't feel an urgency but I would like for her to be off bottles by the time she is two.

I didn't wean my son from the bottle or formula....the day he turned 1 I had enough fomula for 2 bottles, 1 in the morning and then one for nap and after that I just put regular milk in the bottle for bed time.  And I just put milk in bottles for about a week and one morning I said ok enough bottles and just put his milk in a sippy cup.  He didn't mind it at all....and now at 2yrs he gets a little bit of milk at nap in a sippy and after bath before bed he gets a little bit of milk in a sippy.  If you are real worried about taking her off the bottle cold turkey then try putting her milk in a nuby sippy cup, they have the soft nipples(kinda like a bottle) and let her get use to not having a bottle and then start putting the milk in a regular sippy cup.

When would guys suggest i should start taking awat my babys bottles and paci. She is 11months tomorrow. Should i take awat all her bottles and leave the one at night or just take away them all at once or take away one bottle at a time. What should i do bout the paci leave it in the bed, cold turkey, or cut the nipple?

Amy, I started to wean my daughter at about 15 months. She always had a hard time taking a sippy for some reason, she wouldn't tip the cup, so one day I tried a straw cup and she has been using that ever since. In the beginning I would give her her milk in a bottle in the morning and a cup of watered down juice in the afternoon and a bottle at night before bed. I slowly took away one bottle at a time. I would say I went about a week giving her 2 a day and then the following week dropped to one a day and then just stopped all together. She did fine. Now she gets a cup of milk in the morning, juice and water through out the day and milk again befoer bed. Before 2 years I believe they should be getting about 16-18oz a day for nutritional reasons. If they don't get the milk they need then give them some other source of nutrition that they would get from the milk.

Alex...as far as paci's...my daughter is now 19 months and I have yet to take them away. She ONLY gets them for nap and bedtime. The rest of the day they stay in her crib. I say "they" because she has 3 of them for night time reasons. Honestly after she falls asleep I don't even think she bothers with it. I want to take hers away too, but I am afraid of how she will react at bedtime. I was thinking that I would just wait until after all her teeth came in (she has about 4 to go) and then give them to the "paci fairy". I heard of people cutting the tips, but I would think that would only cause extra air and give them gas. Let me know what you do and if it works for you.

 Ok thank you but do you think your daughter will old enough to understand tha paci fariy. I have had the ame consiner bout the gas but they sya they will stop sucking on it bc it will have no sucation leftand they wont want it. I think i will just leave it in the room once she turns one. What do you do bout car trips and outings do you take a pci with you?

I don't think that right now she is old enough to understand the Paci Fairy, but I think by 2 she will and by then she should have her canine teeth, which are the next 4 to come and the worst ones that hurt. She only gets her paci's at naps and bedtime. I use to bring it in the car and outings, but stopped that at about 8 months old. She would be so occupied playing and being out that she didn't think about it or miss it. It's really just a matter of preferance and if you go cold turkey, which a lot of parents do, I would wait for a weekend because it could make for a couple sleepless nights before getting use to not having it anymore.

Amy, I would do what Sandy said, do it slowly, taking away one bottle at a time, over the course of a few weeks. That's what we did and it went so smoothly.  Of course, my son hated bottles and loved the sippy cups so it was an easy transition.  But like you, I was concerned that he wouldn't get enough, but he did.  Now I give him about 6 oz with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and some in a smoothie for a snack.  He's always been underweight, but the nutritionist said he's getting exactly what he needs, as long as it is whole milk for right now (he's 19 months).  We stopped his nighttime bottle feeding at a year and were afraid of how he'd react to that (if he'd wake up in the middle of the night) but we decided to replace it with a non-liquid snack.  He didn't even notice that he wasn't getting milk!

In response to the pacifier post, we took it away at 18 months.  Our plan was when he turned a year, but it just wasn't time yet.  He only took it at naps and at bedtime, and didn't NEED it to fall asleep, so we stopped giving it to him on his 18 month birthday.  He never cried for it or anything, but we did notice that he didn't sleep as long for his naps.  It took a little while (a couple of weeks maybe) for him to get back to normal, but he's totally fine now.  We figured that it would be way easier now, then later, when he was even more dependant on it.  I hope you have as easy time as we did, and again, I agree with Sandy, do it on a weekend!

Ok thank ou guys very much. When you took the paci away did you replae it with another comfort item like a stuffed toy or a blanket?

We never gave him anything to replace the pacifier, but he was never really attached to it, so it was easy.  You could try a stuffed toy.  We never did that because they were always a distraction to our son, he'd stay up and play if we put a stuffed animal in there.  I hope whatever you decide to do works out!

Well the paci I have for her is one of those wubbanubs with a stuffed animal attached to the paci. I have took he paci away during the day she only gets it at nap time and bed time. I also bring it along in the car. She seems to be doing fine with out it. I want to start taking her bottles away but i should probly wait a lil bit on that since i am taking the paci away right. I dont want to change to much too fast for her.

My daughter is now 17 months old and as far as the bottle goes Up until a month ago she still took one bottle right before bed and I know they say to wean them by one but I was ok with letting her have just the one I had switched her to a sippy cup for during the day at around age 1. Out of the blue last month (when I was in the hospital to have our second baby) she decided she no longer wanted the bottle and just gave it up on her own (which is what i was hoping they will let you know when they are ready)--as far as the pacifier goes im not sure how much help i can be on that i tried when she was younger to get her to take one but she adamantly refused and went with her thumb which i am grateful she only sucks when she is sleepy--she does however have to have her blanky. My friends had a great idea for getting rid of the pacifier though that i thought i would share--they took the "binkys" to  build a bear workshop and let there child pick out a special stuffed friend to hel pthem sleep then had the binkys put in the stuffed animal when it was made (they have a pocket inside that something can be put in when it is made) that way they still had the security knowing they were in their animal it seemed to work for them--hope this helps!

MMM.... That is a good idea but I don think ny baby is old enoungh to understand that yet. She will be a year the 2nd and have not yet took away her bottles kind or dreading it. The paci went good she only gets it at nap I am npt sur how the bottles will go.