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Weaning is NOT GOING WELL. Help.

kgail11kgail11 member
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DS won't take anything but WATER in his sippy.. and I mean anything. He shoves it away when there's milk in it (though he chugs it down in the bottle, no prob).. I picked today to start weaning to a sippy.. one feeding at a time. So, this last one was a total bust. He wouldn't take more than 1 sip. And acted like I was torturing him, shoving it away and whatnot. It'd be not so stressful if he was a great table-food eater, but he isn't. So at what point do I cave, if he's not getting the nutrition he needs? I hate it that I can't go cold turkey (bc he's not that easygoing of a kiddo), but yet if I try to eliminate 1 bottle at a time he's getting mixed messages... and likely one less bottle per day (which he needs, imo). HELP!
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Re: Weaning is NOT GOING WELL. Help.

  • kgail11kgail11 member
    I guess my ? is more of, should we keep approaching him with it? Or would that just create a negative tendency twds it? Or give it to him casually, like not as a feeding replacement, or what??
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  • ShimmyShimmy

    We're not there quite yet...this totally isn't even my board...but what the heck, I'll just give my opinion anyway!

    Can you try to just offer it casually in addition to what you normally give him?  Then maybe he will get used to it and you can start replacing your normal feedings?  I don't know.  DD seems to resist change so much that we will have to transition really slowly.  Plus, she's also a crappy eater so I would be worried about her getting proper nutrition just like you are.

     

    Good luck!    

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  • BonzerBonzer

    Can I ask what the urgency is regarding getting him off the bottle? I am not buying this perpetuated fear that Dr's are instilling in mothers about their babies and the negativity of a bottle at 366 days old.

    Phoenix is 14 months. Sometimes he takes a cup, all day he takes a bottle, and he eats what he wants IF he feels like it. I'm not an advocate of forcing anything, especially at a very young and confusing age where I think proper nutrition is more important than delivery methods of said nutrition.

    Calm down. Pack up the cups. revisit this in a few weeks.

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  • nosoup4unosoup4u member
    What Bonzer said. If you're stressed out about it, he'll probably pick up on it, too.
    DS1 - Feb 2008

    DS2 - Oct 2010 (my VBAC baby!)

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  • mrstrnmrstrn
    I started giving my DD milk in a cup around 12 1/2 months. She also wasn't very fond of it that way either. She would drink juice out of a cup no problem but would only take milk in her bottle. What I did was try the milk in the cup first and let her drink what she would (was only one sip at first), then I would put the milk in her bottle so she would drink enough. I just kept giving her the milk in a cup and she slowly started drinking more and more of it. Now at 14 1/2 months she is completely off of bottles and drinking milk just fine out of a cup. I know it's really difficult, and I have no idea if this is the "right" way to do it, it's just what worked for us. G/L!
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  • kgail11kgail11 member
    Yeah, I am going to chillax..  I just honestly do stress because I am all too familiar with DS's RESOLVE and determination!!! ha, he is one willful little child. I know it'll happen eventually though, and not a second sooner than he is ready!
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  • OnCloud999OnCloud999
    Ditto Bonzer. I tried giving milk in sippy around 13 months and DS was not ready. I may try in a month or so. I am not in a rush. It's a huge emotional attachment for DS, so I wouldn't want to just take it away before he is ready.
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