My son will be 1 year old on Monday----can't believe that! But I am going to start weaning him. I'm a bit confused though. What am I suppose to do at first? Does weaning mean you drop feedings or does weaning mean you get him on cow's milk? Or both at the same time?
I have a little freezer stash so I was going to use start the weaning process like this:
Next week afternoon bottle at daycare (3:30 pm) put in 1/2 bm and 1/2 whole milk. To get him used to whole milk Or am I suppose to be dropping that feeding? Then increase that afternoon bottle to complete whole milk over about a weeks time. He can drink out of a cup and a strawed cup well. Should I start that transition at the same time or would that be changing too many thinks at one time. Then what after I get him on a completel whole milk feeding in the afternoon? Drop that after he's been on it for a week or so? Is that what I should be doing.....I'm so confused.
Then start doing the same to his morning feeding at daycare (11 or 11:30am). But I still still have him nurse at 7am off me and at 7 pm off me before bed and any night wakes as well.
I have been reading kellymom.com for advice on weaning and also looking at Baby 411. I know the goal is 16 oz milk per day.
Currently he is getting two 8 oz bottles at daycare and nursing off me the rest of the time. So what---use the same schedule we have going but replace it with whole milk---but I thought we were suppose to be dropping feeding sessions.
I'm confused-----please help!!!!!!!
Re: How do I start this process.....????
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I had them start replacing bottles at daycare with sippy cups of cow's milk while I dropped pumping sessions. He didn't take as much cow's milk, but as you've noted they don't need as much milk amount-wise after age 1 as they did breastmilk.
I eventually dropped all daytime nursing sessions/pumpings, and just used cow's milk in a cup at snacks and lunch. I kept the nursing sessions in the morning and before bed, and slowly dropped those over several months.