You probably should sterilize all bottles until your child is off of the bootle. You don't need to everytime especially if the only have juice or other drinks like that. Just wash the bottle as if it was a cup or glass that you were drinking out of. At 1 year a child should have a fully developed immune system so shouldn't be a problem
Most mothers get tired of all that work at about 6 months of age,
which is also the time that sweetie-pie starts putting everything in his/her mouth.
A baby's bottles should be sterilized until the baby has stopped using them.
The average age for babies to wean from their bottles, is between the ages of 2 and a half and 3. Age 4 the latest.
Here's a good article on sterilizing baby bottles (and why it's not always necessary): http://parenting.ivillage.com/baby/bnutrition/0,,b11b,00.html
by cleaning them
You can wean your baby take from her bottle by sticking her nose in a dish of milk. The milk will get on her tongue and she will begin to lap.
Most pediatricians recommend that you wean your baby from a bottle around 12-18 months.
No. This is too early to wean a calf. If it's on the bottle, it should be weaned at around 3 to 4 months of age.
You can wean a baby cockatiel when they are at least eight to nine weeks of age.
Why are we advised not to wean a baby before they are 17 weeks old?
At 4 to 6 weeks they should start to eat solid food and drink water.
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Baby rabbits will drink for as long as they can. But you will have to wean them at 6 weeks. By this stage the mothers milk will be slowly decreasing.
actually it's called wean and you wean foals at about 6 or 7 months of age
Well i had my bottle till i was 7 it would drink chi chi (warm oatmeal that was blended) but one day my chi chi bottle disappeared and i got a sippy cup that looked close to a baby bottle and every week it would look more and more like a sippy cup and less and less like a baby bottle i would say to gradually start with something that looked closely like a bottle and change it every week to look mor like a sippy cup or regular cup good luck...
depends on the animal, like guinea pigs wean at about 2 weeks and dogs should wean about 6-8 weeks whereas African elephants don't wean for about 2 years.