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aleikela
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Moms who weaned off of the bottle...
aleikela
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How the heck did you do it?! I tried for the first time all yesterday and last night and it was heart wrenching! He cried, I cried. I don't think I have ever seen him so upset.
My goal was to go straight from BF'ing to cups but since he self weaned early, he wasn't proficient enough at the cup so I had to start him on a bottle. I decided to start weaning because of possible tooth decay and because he starts going to a PDO program in the fall where no bottles are allowed for naps.
Since around a year old, I only give bottles for naps and bedtime (and throughout the night) and he uses a cup all day. After last night, I just don't feel ready. I just worry that if I wait too long though, it will be even harder. I just don't know what to do. I ended up giving in and he is a happy little clam again. I honestly didn't know how attached he was to his bottle until yesterday.
We had a pedi appt. the other day and was told he is cutting every single tooth in his mouth. He has been super fussy because of this. On top of that, my pedi thinks he needs to have a circumcision repair and I just don't know if now is the time to wean. But like I said before, I am afraid it will be that much harder later.
UGH!!!!
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Re: Moms who weaned off of the bottle...
Katy and Brett ~ Runaway Bay, Jamaica ~ October 4, 2008
K+S 9.18.9 | DD #1 age 2 | PG # 5 EDD 9.17.12
I was planning on posting about this very topic in the next few days. I was wondering how to go about weaning the bottle as well.
{{{Hugs}}} to you and Kash, I can't imagine everything that he is going through right now. Poor baby
This was my thought too. I went out and got some of these to ease the transition. I use my normal ones during the day and the bottle like ones during naptime and night and he wanted nothing to do with it.
He took one look at it and was like really?! WTF is this?! Threw it and continued with his tantrum...everytime. Lol! Needless to say, I gave in...
We tried several times to wean off the bottle gradually and it was just prolonging the pain for both of us. One day, dd woke up and in the bottle drying rack, there were only sippy cups, no bottles. She wanted a bottle and I told her they went bye bye - now it was time for big girl cups. She didn't want anything to do with them and kept throwing them on the floor. I made sure she had food with extra liquid, such as mandarin oranges, a popsicle, etc. I also gave her food that promoted a dry mouth - dry cheerios, etc. so she would end up very thirsty. By the end of the day, she was drinking about half the milk from the sippy I gave her. The next morning, she asked once for the bottle and I told her they went bye bye and that was it. No tears at all the second day. It took her 2-3 days to get back to drinking her usual volume of milk, but I kept supplementing with liquid-y foods so she wouldn't get dehydrated and she was fine.
Has your LO been drinking juice from a sippy? My pedi told me that it's much easier to make the transition if the baby is already used to the sippy cup. She suggested to start with watered down juice in the sippy, and milk in the bottle. NO juice in the bottle! Once the baby is used to juice in the sippy, it's much easier to make the transition.
Also, my sister told me that when her LO refused to take milk from the sippy, she would put his milk in the sippy and then do 50/50 milk/water in the bottle. Once her ds realized how yucky the milk in the bottle was, he went right to the sippy.
Good luck with your transitions, ladies! Getting rid of the bottles was HARD for me and I cried but that just means that there are fun times ahead with your "big kids!"
Ok, we did what you did at first, with having a bottle only just before bed. The reason we did that, was when we first tried a complete transition, but he just threw the sippy cup(especially before bed), but he would drink from the bottle. I really wanted him to have milk before bed so I caved. We waited a couple weeks and in the meantime tried several different types of sippy cups(which is what the pedi recommended) and one night gave him the sippy and not the bottle. He drank it, so we have been doing that ever since.
Oh and Im adding that he likes the ones that are soft and like bottles. The flip-up straw ones and harder ones he wont use. So those are the ones we have.
Good luck Rachel!
Thanks for the advice ladies! I will be trying these things. I will let you know how it goes!
Do you all put them down for naps with a sippy or no drink at all?