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when you dropped the AM bottle for LO...

groovygrlgroovygrl member
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did you just give milk in a sippy in the morning when s/he woke up or what?

I'm unsure what the best thing to do is here- my LOs wake around 6/630 and daycare feeds bfast at 8. There is no way they can go (at 13 months) until 8am without eating anything. I want to start working on dropping the AM bottle soon so we can then work on the nighttime bottle (which I'm assuming you just drop altogether & give milk with dinner & be done with it?) but I don't know how to approach this morning thing. They currently have dinner between 5 & 530 and then a bottle and bed at 630/645 so waiting until 8am to eat anything seems really long, I know I'd be really hungry & I'm not a growing toddler!

Thanks! 

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Re: when you dropped the AM bottle for LO...

  • Temp159135562506975Temp159135562506975 member

    my boys are about to turn 15mos.  They have not had milk after dinner in a LONG time... dinner is their last "bottle" (it's been sippy cups for a couple months now).

    we wake up around 6:30am and the babies drink a full sippy cup of milk - this is the one and only time they drink a cup all at once anymore... the rest of the day they take sips while they are eating.

    After their milk at 6:30am they eat breakfast at home- bannana, eggs, whatever --- then we all get ready and they are dropped off at daycare around 8am and have a snack then.

     

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  • groovygrlgroovygrl member

    Thanks. I was thinking a sippy of milk in the morning before going to DC and eating bfast was the way to go. I don't want them to eat before daycare b/c then they'd have to sit there & watch the other kids eat bfast once they get there.

    My goal is to have all bottles gone by around 15 months, my kids did not do well with milk in sippies even though I introduced them with water at meals at 8 months. My pedi is in agreement with this plan so I don't really feel bad that my 13 month olds still get bottles since there has been so much change in the last month or so with going back to daycare after summer & having to transition to 1 nap, mat sleeping, milk in sippies during the day, sickness (we've already had pink eye & HFM) etc. It is great that your kids have been off sippies for SO long but don't forget you've done this whole thing before w/ your older child & some of us are foraging through it all for the first time. 

     

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  • AmyCC1980AmyCC1980 member

    My DD was very attached to her first morning bottle and her last evening bottle.  I just switched them both out for sippy cups of milk at around 12 months.  She has to start and end her day with milk or it gets ugly (lol). 

    My DD also eats breakfast at daycare (around 9am).  Other than her sippy of milk when she first wakes up she is rarely hungry for much else before 9 am but on the rare occasions that she does want to eat before we get to daycare I usually give her some cereal to snack on or a smoothie in the car.  Her breakfasts at daycare normally consist of yogurt, fruit and dry cereal. 

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  • PeskyPesky member
    I base it on how he is acting.  Usually it takes us 30 minutes, give or take, to get ready and out the door and then daycare is at most 10 minutes away.  He can usually last that long until getting his breakfast and sippy at daycare.  If he can't and is acting fussy, I pop him in his highchair with cheerios and his sippy. 


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  • sunrae719sunrae719 member
    I give DS a sippy cup with some milk and a pre-breakfast snack (some cheerios, crackers, fruit, etc.) around 6am. hen he eats breakfast around 7:30 at daycare. The kid eats a lot though, so it's never affected his appetite.
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