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weezie825
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Introducing Milk (a sort of poll)
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How did you first introduce milk?
Did you give it in a cup or bottle?
Was it warm or cold?
Did you mix it with formula or breast milk or just give it to your LO straight?
Did you LO have an problems or resist the transition?
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Re: Introducing Milk (a sort of poll)
How did you first introduce milk? I gave it to her with her lunch one day
Did you give it in a cup or bottle? She was an expert of drinking out of a cup with a straw at that point, so I gave it to her in one of those. They are a pain to clean, so we have since changed to a sippy cup.
Was it warm or cold? I ran it under hot water for a few seconds just to take the edge off.
Did you mix it with formula or breast milk or just give it to your LO straight? I gave it to her straight.
Did you LO have an problems or resist the transition? It took her a while to like it. She still nurses, so I see milk as an addition to her diet not a substitution. That being said, I went out last night and my husband gave her a cup of milk, brushed her teeth, read her a story and put her to bed. This was the first time milk replaced nursing and it seemed to work, as she slept through the night.
This is obviously for DD, not DS-
I intro'd in a sippy cup, didn't warm it up and served it straight.
Similar to Matilda I was still nursing, so she got milk in a sippy cup sometimes and nursed others.
How did you first introduce milk? I started giving it to A in her bottle mixed with formula, and yes I had warm it up in the beginning.
Did you give it in a cup or bottle? Bottle first and then sippy cup. If I remember correctly we went cold turkey from the bottle when she was 14 months old.
Was it warm or cold? In the beginning we warmed it up for her, but now she takes it cold.
Did you mix it with formula or breast milk or just give it to your LO straight? I started mixing in 20% milk, 80% formula and just started to decrease her formula, each week. By the time she was 13 months she was completely on cow's milk.
Did you LO have an problems or resist the transition? We had no problems.
Good luck!
I plan to just switch over. I already give dc formula cold and the other day dc took it straight from the fridge. I'm not worried about that.
I'm worried about getting dc off the bottle! What a stinker!
Can we hold each other and sing together? O.M.G. the crib, it's dc's enemy. I swear dc KNOWS when i plan to utilize the crib. Needless to say, daddy went up and saved the day and dc was in our bed last night. The faces dh gives me and his excuses, HA! So it's not going to well over here. It was going great until the last sickness.
Yes! Kum-bye-Ya, My Friend!
Double ear infection and Eardrum bursting are how DD ended up in bed with us despite having successfully slept on her own for 7 months. I tried Ferber but she scremed until she threw up 3 nights in a row! So, I gave up for a while.
We actually tried again when we were breaking her in to wearing her helmet at night. I didn't think it would go as well as it did. She still scremed until she threw up, but after we bathed her she was so exhausted that she fell asleep on her changing table. So we gently put her in the crib and crept ninja style out of the room.
Everytime she whined I ran in and re-inserted her binky before she woke herself all the way up. But she stayed in her crib and slept all night long!
Tonight will make 2 weeks straight of her crib sleeping. Woo Hoo. We are still letting her bottle feed right before bed and sleep with a paci. I am waiting until the crib sleeping is a little more established before I try to rock the boat.
Suri cruise carries a bottle and sucks a Paci and she is 5. I am pretty sure we'll get her weaned before that!
miscarriage on 11/26/09 at 5w6d
I know the ninja style all too well. I even slept next to the crib one night and left the pillow/blanket so it was a fake....i was found out bc then dc kept staring at me to be sure I didn't leave.
I'm at a loss. DH isn't helping the situation either, but it is cute to watch him.
I played hardball one week and after 3 nights we were golden. I think dc would have thrown up last night if DH didn't go save the day. We had vomit last week, but there was also sickness involved and vomit had happened before. I need to just go back to how i did it before (i think it was ferber actually).
Both my kids had already been drinking water from a sippy cup so I have it to them in a cup.
Devyn went from breastfeeding to whole milk and I switched him to straight up milk.
Luke was on Formula from 7 1/2 month on (I dried up too soon) so with him I gradually mixed it into his Formula.
I do not remember heating it up for either of them .. again they were used to drinking water which was on the cold side coming out of the fridge dispenser
Anything new you should try early in the day in case there is a reaction. You don't want to deal with that in the middle of the night!
Actually, that's very good to know. She has issues with htis anyway, so maybe I better lay off the yogurt and the bananas and buy some apple juice while we transition!
I offered a sippy of cold milk this morning and she took a few sips, but didn't gulp it like she does her water. I offered her a warm bottle before nap. I fgured I try it straight up and see if she refused. She took it fine.
We transitioned with both formula and milk until she was all on organic whole milk, cold, at one. She was already using a sippy for water but adding milk to the sippy was a whole 'nother game. It took over a month but we are finally on a 6 oz. sippy of milk with breakfast, 6 oz. sippy of milk with lunch, and then a 6 oz. bottle after dinner around 7pm of milk. That last bottle is the hardest one to get rid of!
I've always just used the Ready to Pour containers of formula...so when I got down to the last container of formula (which would last about 1 day and a 1/2....I gradually added more whole milk to each feeding bottle.
Formula/milk is/was always warm.
LO never knew the difference. I don't think he cares whats in the bottle...just that its a bottle!