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Miller238
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Liquids question - kinda long
Miller238
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We took the bottle away from K this weekend cold turkey. On Saturday, we put her formula in a sippy, and it was a complete fail, but by night time, she was super thirsty, so she drank a few ounces (maybe 3-4 oz.). On Sunday, we did it again and throughout the day she had about 5 ounces total. We were told not to give her water at all. Only offer the formula in her sippy or else she would just fill up on water and table food.
I just called daycare and they said she hasn't touched her sippy.
When she had bottles, she was drinking about 18oz of formula and about 8oz of water. She was basically dry all weekend (only a few wet diapers and none overnight).
Do I keep this formula-only thing going? When do I break and give her water? I get so anxious thinking about her getting dehydrated and obsiously don't want it to go that far. Will she drink when she is thirsty?
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Re: Liquids question - kinda long
He didn't say we had to do it now, but we want it gone. She eats the formula just fine from a bottle, but for some reason, won't drink it from a sippy cup.
We were told by her nutritionist and pedi that if we want the bottle to go away and have her still drinking formula, we can't give her water at first. I am going to call the pedi and see what I should do.
No, she doesn't. We didn't sign with her. We kept a sippy with us at all times this weekend and if we said, "Where is your cup?" she would go get it and take a drink from it if we told her to. But the sips didn't equal much liquid.
We have chocolate and tropical fruit flavored formula also and tried that, but she spit that out right away.
I tried 6 different sippy cups this weekend. She hates sippy cups with silicone tops (which makes no sense!). She LOVES straw cups, but only for water. The only one she would even drink from is a plastic, hard top cup.
I totally understand wanting to be done with the bottle. Although our situation was obviously a bit different (ours was more due to the fact that he didn't take to cow's milk and we were concerned about the lacking nutrition), J was kind of the same way. Meaning, we still wanted/needed him to take forumla after age 1 (to make up for the lack of cow's milk); but, he absolutely refused to take it any way besides the bottle. Honestly, our pedi said that there was absolutely nothing wrong with him continuing to use a bottle (until 2+, if necessary), as long as there was a nutritional reason to do so. I rationalized that many children BF until 2+ (for the same reasons), so there's not much difference. KWIM?
I would assume she needs to be on it until at least 2. It all depends on what foods she can eat by that age and what she is still allergic to. I probably should just keep with the bottles until she is two. I just thought if I tried for a couple of days, she would get the hang of drinking it from a sippy. FAIL!
DD didn't give up her nightly bottle until almost 18 months (starting with cow's milk just over a year.) She enjoyed it, it comforted her so I felt pretty good about continuing with the bottle. I just didn't want to force something she wasn't ready for. Once she was ready, it was a piece of cake transitioning to a sippie cup. Maybe K isn't quite ready?
We are doing pretty much what TTT said. I tried weaning down the number of bottles and I think we could drop her naptime bottle, but at bedtime she still needs one and if she wakes at night most of the time she still needs one to go down at one of her wakings (though not at all of her wakings). I really really hate bottles but at this point she's not ready to give them up and I value what sleep I'm getting more than getting rid of bottles. And like TTT, I rationalize the same way that kids are BF'd past 18 mo. so why not bottles too.