A 15 Month Old And A Bottle

[KidGrind]

Thank you all for your responses. It's a military home daycare and per her supervisor all babies need to be off a bottle at 12 months she stated she wasn't aware that it was a mandortory thing but a recommendation. So her supervisor gave her a deadline of Monday to wean off the bottle if not she will get written up.

U.S. military providers have some of the strictest regulations in the US and abroad. 13 months and older children need to be cup train. Also USDA representatives don’t want to see a bottle in hand with children over a year old. It is mandatory. Hence she will be written up.

[daycarediva]

If they said no bottle and you know that it is a healthier option then I would start making the same transition at home. Trust me when I tell you I have kids who have never had a regular cup with a straw, refuse it in the morning and by lunch are ****ing them down.

****ing is a natural thing for children to do, so I am sure that your child will have no problem.

ITA.

I understand taking her off the bottle but I don't feel I should be given less than a week notice to do so

Understandably, and apparently it was out of her hands as she is doing what her boss told her to, kwim?

Also, I find it much smoother to go cold turkey than to wean. Weaning is CONFUSING for most children (when can I have one? where? why not at lunch today but at lunch yesterday).

I would try straw cups and transition all of my kids to straw cups, then to open cups with straws, then to open cups. It takes a day or two to get them drinking. Might be a cranky day or two, but it's not traumatic or anything.

If daycare is dropping them, I STRONGLY recommend you do as well. Just easier for everyone to be on the same page.

[Unregistered]

When my kids were little and they reached a year old I weaned them from the bottle cold turkey. They did just fine. Maybe try a sippy with a soft spout? If you take the bottle away they will drink from the cup.

[Unregistered]

My little one was moving to a new center and I found out she would be in a different room and I could get a little cheaper rate if she wasn't taking bottles, so I lied (wrong- I know!) and said, of course she can drink from a cup! We were breastfeeding and she wasn't a fan of the bottle anyways, so we just cold turkey tried a straw cup and she did amazing with it. I'm not a fan of sippy cups. They seem just as difficulty, if not more, to clean and it's just another thing to transition from eventually. She did great with a straw and then at 2 1/2, it was only open cups. Again, we just gave it to her and she did great. I think we tend to underestimate our kids

[hwichlaz]

I don't even allow regular sippy cups. ONe of my daycare parents is a dentist and she says that there is no difference. Sippy cups just have hard nipples instead of soft nipples. They are still ****ing it into their mouth and through their teeth. She recommends straw cups, so that's what we use. I only allow cups at the table, and bottles are only in arms, so no one is allowed to wander around my house with a drink. I'm not as strict about the age through.

[MadisonHarris]

Nothing to worry. This happens. This is normal. You should wait for few days. If still this is going on then you should call a child specialist.