Weaning night milk???

Question

My daughter is 13 months on the 30th & she usually takes a sippy of milk about 5oz-6oz in the morning and one 8-9 oz sippy at night to go to sleep. I’ve been trying to wean her from it we know how bad it is for her little teeth but it’s so hard.

Answer

I was dreading this, but it was actually a very easy transition. I cut out the morning bottle first. I now give her oatmeal first thing in the morning. She’s ready to eat way before my husband and I are and oatmeal is easy and holds her over until our family breakfast a few hours later. She would always take a 4 - 6 oz bottle before bed so I was convinced she’d wake up hungry without it. Before we cut it out completely, we moved it to right after dinner and before bath, story, etc. so it was no longer a part of the bedtime routine. After about a week of that, we just stopped offering it. She didn’t put up a fuss at all and has continued to sleep a 12 hour stretch until breakfast. Good luck!

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We want to do the same. He currently nurses before bed and then we do a half hearted effort to brush his teeth (he hates it and makes it a challenge). I would like to just offer milk and water at dinner and then not do nursing at all at night. Our plan was to just have my husband do the whole nighttime routine for like a week so he doesn’t see me and think about milk. Not certain when we will try that though.

Answer

We had to wean the bedtime milk and bottle at the same time around 12 months and it was much easier than I thought it would be. I just started giving less and less milk and eventually we were down to less than a oz and then one night I put it in a new sippy cup & he didn’t even want it anymore & that was the end of that.

Weaning night milk???

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