Milk at night

Dublinhurler

From what age should babies stop having bottles of milk during the night and how did you start weaning them off the bottle at night.

lazygal

Bottles should be gone after a year. Milk, unless it's breastmilk, will cause tooth decay if it sits in the mouth so replace with water at night.

Moonbeam

Once the girls were weaned off bottles at 12-14 months then that was it but the boy loved a bottle in bed and due to having his baby sister when he was 15 months I let him keep it longer .
Depends on the child some might like a glass of milk before bed forever others once you stop the bottle they will give up bedtime milk too .

coffeyt

Hi dublinhurler if I understand what you are asking then it depends on what stage you are at, if under 6 months a baby should be getting approx five 7oz bottles in a 24 hour period so if you can fit the feeds in between say 7am and 11am you could start trying to wean off a night feed!!! Over 6 months and on solids then 600ml is enough and with our guy once over one he got a sippy cup of milk morning and evening!!

Dublinhurler

Great stuff thanks for all the replies