How To Wean A Toddler From Bottle Feeding

How do I wean a toddler from bottle feeding?

Bottle feeding, in many ways, is very difficult to wean your baby off of, much more so than breast feeding. While the process is very natural with breast feeding, with bottle feeding (because it is an inanimate object that the child can carry around) it often becomes an attachment issue. Breaking an attachment issue is very difficult for a small toddler. The best thing you can do is transition out of bottles to cups before one year of age. There's nothing wrong with giving formula in a sippy cup after six months of age. Train sippy cups early when the baby's memory is not developed, and it won't have attachment to the bottle, making weaning off bottle feeding easier. If, however, you have gone past one year of age, the very best thing you can do is to have a ceremony of throwing out your bottles. Get them all to the trash so there is no more bottle feeding option.