Drop Middle Bottle?

[Mom to M&M]

Wendy, it's mostly my preference. I was the same way with DD - just can't bear getting him breakfast that early (he's normally up between 6-6:30, though this morning was a freakish 7:05) and he won't wait more than 10 minutes or so after waking before either bottle or food.

I have to go to Whole Foods tomorrow to buy fish anyway so I might pick up some of those Yo-baby smoothies and offer either that in sippy or yogurt in place of the afternoon bottle. Right now DH is feeding DS his "bedtime" bottle (though he won't go to bed for at least another half hour) and DS is quite happy - but he really did do well without his afternoon one, so at least maybe we can cut down to two bottles and make up the milk elsewhere...

BTW, DH kept his morning bottle until he was almost 6!!!

[Tweakster]

That sounds good.  We started slow too and then he just surprised us and adapted all on his own.  But it was getting to be a pain sending a bottle to daycare, they would forget to send it home or send a different bottle home...and so it was nice to see it go really.

[Mom to M&M]

So both with breakfast this morning and lunch just now, DS accepted VERY watered down milk (like one ounce milk, three ounces water) in his sippy cup. Interesting that he is ok with that but not totally milk in cup. He had a very good lunch and will see if he will accept the yobaby smoothie in cup in 1-2 hours for snack. If not will probably try a yogurt and some strawberries (in place of his usual bottle at that time).

Definitely a strong genetic component (despite DD being off all bottles by 13 months of her own choosing) - DH kept his morning bottle till almost 6 and his sister's kids show no sign of getting off bottles (her almost 5-year old has a bottle with dessert still and the two-year old twins have two bottles a day) anytime soon. Guess there's a history of bottle = comfort - especially since none of them (other than my DD) were into sucking their thumbs or pacifier!