What does my 6 month old need?

I've read extensively about this and what you are doing is correct. You do not need to ween him off of the pacifier or the bottle, especially not the bottle. You still need to give him 99 percent of his nutrients from the bottle.

your son sounds very smart. My daughter is six months and getting her teeth and it's funny she will drink from a sippy if I drink from it first. But anyway, any pediatrician will tell you that he needs the binki to help sooth in the months ahead for the pain he will be going through cos of his teeth.

No, the binki nor the bottle will mess up his teeth, that can only happen if your child is still depending on a binki when they are two.

You need to feed him from the bottle and then feed him food from a spoon. Introduce the sippy cup with sugar free juice diluted with water.

Do not take the bottle off of him dear, he needs it, he's just a baby.

My daughter started getting a sippy cup around that age. I would just put water in it to get her used to using it. She is 9 months now and she still gets a bottle, she has 7 teeth now and the bottle doesn't seem to be hurting them at this point. Most dr.s don't worry about getting baby off bottles before their first birthday. I think if they continue sucking on a bottle/pacifier/thumb after 2-3 years old is when it will start messing up their teeth, but I don't know for sure. Try the sippy now, but keep on giving bottles. Let the sippy cup just be for practice for now. The rash on his cheeks/chins is from extra drool chapping his skin. He will probably be getting another tooth soon. My daughter always gets that before she cuts another tooth. I use eucerine cream on it before she goes down for nap/bedtime.

Continue to give him formula/breast milk in a bottle for now. If you start giving him juice, put it in a sippy so he gets used to it and doesn't rely on just his bottle but if he's not ready then just stick to the bottle for a little longer and try again in a couple weeks. The rash can be from saliva, a food allergy, heat..there's a ton of things. We can't see the rash through the computer, if it is still there in a couple days then take him to a doctor!

My son is 10 months old and his doctor said it's fine he is still using a pacifier and not wanting to go with his sippy full time. I started him at 6 months old with his sippy but he only drinks his juice out of it and won't drink his formula out of it. He does not need to give up the bottle. It's different for each child. Your baby's doctor can look at his teeth and tell you whether or not the bottle or pacifier is messing up his teeth but i seriously doubt at 6 months the bottle is messing up his teeth. Let him be a baby as long as he can. But my son's doctor said to start weaning him off his pacifiers and bottle at 12 months.

When my son got the rash on his cheeks and chin i try to keep it clean and put vasoline on it and it cleared it up quickly.