My son just turned a year old on Saturday (Yes he is my little Halloween baby) :) and my husband and I decided that it's now time to start switching things around. He got the new "big boy" car seat, his teeth are FINALLY starting to come in so we are going to slowly wean him off the binky and lastly the money saver... wean him off of formula and introduce cow's milk into his diet which also means weaning off the bottle. Problem is I have no idea how to do this.
I have read a few articles online about it. Some say to just give it to him in a sippy cup and just reduce the bottles of formula throughout the day until the one before bed is the last one and eventually wean him off of that one too. Some other's say to introduce it slowly by mixing it with his formula (i.e. 2 oz milk with 4-6 oz formula and increase the milk until it is all milk). I like the idea of that approach since my son has had some belly troubles in the past (acid reflux but he has grown out of it now), but it doesn't help me wean from the bottle.
So I was wondering what other mothers did to get their child off the bottle and formula and on to whole milk.
Thanks all!
V
