So afetr all the ideas and encouragement I decided to take my long weekend to try getting Evie to give up her morning bottle.
I decided that I would completely change her morning routine ion the hopes that she wouldn't immediately ask me for milk. Normally when she first wakes up I take her into this little sitting area in the master bedroom, but instead I took her out into the fliving room. We sat on the couch for a couple of minutes and cuddled. Then I put her in her little chair she uses for snacks and brought her a sippy of milk, a sippy of water and a bowl of dry cereal.
She took a couple sips of the milk and then handed it to me and mostly drank water. She munched away on cheerios and watched Wow Wow Wubsy.
She did GREAT. There was no fussing or whining. We are at day 4 and she still hasn't even asked about a bottle. YAY!
We still need to get the night time bottle gone, but I am waiting until after her surgery to try that. Thanks for all the ideas and encouragement. Things went a lot better than I expected.
Re: Day 4 of no morning bottle!
YAY! So glad it went well. You are brave doing it in stages. I didn't want to torture myself multiple times. I'm sure she'll do great with the night time as well!
Good job mama!
... every single day of forever.
I am totally in fear about the night time one... she literally falls asleep while eating the bottle, then we move her to her crib about 15 minutes after she falls asleep. We tried to "Ferberize" her one time and she screamed until she threw up... 3 times in one night. We had to stop because we didn't have any more clean crib sheets.
:shudders:
have faith in Evie! She's a big girl - she can do it!!
lovelylittleworld
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This morning Evie did ask me for a "Bobble." But I distracted her with raisins, and she forgot all about it.
YAY!
Where's the LIKE button?!?! That's awesome!
I know, I wish I could "like" posts on the boards. I would like that one too, weezie!