I need some tips/advice for weaning my 1yr old off of formula. She does good without it all day but it’s at night when she wants it. She’ll go to sleep with 1 bottle (I did try mixing it with whole milk but it just hurt her stomach that way) and she’ll wake up around 12-1am for another and maybe even 5am for one too. I don’t like the idea of thinking she’s starving and she eats dinner around 7-7:30 with a cup of whole milk, but I am buying one more can today, bc last time we were out and I had her stop cold turkey and that was not a good idea lol we were all up all night that day. But im a first time mom and just wondering what to do on this part lol
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One year is awful young to wean her off formula. She needs all the nourishment she can get at this age. What does her pediatrician say about this?
It’s not weaning her off of formula, it’s weaning her off the bottle, start sippy cups.
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I started mixing milk with the formula. Then started backing off of both slowly and added jar foods into it
You could try different milks. My daughter wouldn’t drink milk at all and broke herself of the bottle that way. She mostly drinks flavored water. She also started eating more solids. Give your baby bedtime snack. Oatmeal pasta or rice that’s a little more filling.
Try the toddler formula, my 5th was the same way though my first four swapped to cows milk with no issue.
He weaned himself from at around 18 months.
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Have you tried just milk in the bottle at bedtime? You could slowly do less and less formula, so if you normally do 8oz for a week or so do 6oz the 4 then 2 I did this with both my kids when we weaned the bed time bottle, I did the charge for 2 weeks each, then it went to water in the bottle and we started with a sippy, we always put the “good stuff” in the sippy and water in the bottle
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Try lactaid maybe she’s lactose intolerant.
I had this issue. I started giving her less and less.
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I wouldn’t at 1. Maybe at closer to 2. My youngest is 2 in May and still has 1, sometimes 2, bottles a day. My middle weaned off the breast at 13 months by choice. If you’re kid isn’t ready to give it up yet at 1, I wouldn’t force it.
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The crying will subside. It just has to happen.
I warmed whole milk in a bottle , then we transitioned to a soft tip sippy bottle then to a cup. I always warmed the milk and gave it to my guy . And sometimes it’s just the drink before bed it’s a comfort thing . My boy is 4 and I make a cup of water before he goes to bed because it never fails as soon as he lays down he says I’m thirsty.
They do have toddler formula! I gave that to mine until she was about two. One of those sippy cups full before bed kept her pretty full. But she is lactose intolerant so she was on soy formula and now uses lactose free milk.
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Go cold turkey dont try other things in the bottle. If you must give her a sippy with 2oz at bed time.
I put baby fruit in a bottle with regular milk and warmed it up for 30 seconds
I would wean from the bottle first, then the milk.
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Coke turkey it will be rough for a 2 or 3 nights but after that she will be over it . Also goats milk is awesome she might like that better
If normal milk hurts her stomach maybe try an alternative like almond or hemp? (I only mention hemp because it’s a decent taste imo I don’t like soy) but they also make toddler formula! We bought it for my first for a little just because she didn’t really eat a lot so I wanted to make sure she still got her vitamins and nutrients
I did half formula have 2%… whole milk will hurt thr little belly!
She shouldn’t have a bottle of anything except water at bedtime. I let my son have his bottle and his sippy cups at bed time and the dentist told me that’s what rotted his teeth. He needed 8 caps and had to have 2 teeth removed as a young child because the bottle had rotted his teeth from sleeping with milk in his mouth… just fyi…
I cut my sons night feeding by letting him cry it out 
you aren’t starving her you are breaking her habit. My son did that for months before I finally cut him from wanting night bottles. It only took a few days for him to stop asking for that bottle and now he sleeps the whole night without waking up for a bottle. She will scream, she will cry, it might be an all night cry but eventually she will see that she is no longer getting anything at night and she will give up. It’s ok to give her water if she’s thirsty but it’s time to kick the formula. It’ll only get harder the longer you put it off
If is still biologically normal for a 1 year old to wake at night and need either breastmilk or formula.
Their bodies and brains are still rapidly growing. And they are still babies.