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break down bottle to cup for me

wife1014wife1014 member
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because I suck and have no recollection as to what I did with Olivia. 

Also should I wait until she's getting milk?

FWIW, she's gets 4 bottles and three are before sleep (2 naps/bedtime).  The first is when she wakes so I'll be dropping that ASAP.

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  • shakesshakes member
    What do you mean? Did subbing a sippy for bottle not work for O? Or have you not tried yet?

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  • somanywordssomanywords

    what i did with both of mine is cut the day time bottles cold turkey, but kept one night time bottle. I just played that by ear. i did that with both of mine. for nap time they just had to cry it out since they were used to their bottle.

    but the night time bottle, my first (now 3) dropped it on his own. My second (now 18 months) i quit that around 15 months cold turkey....once again at night he had to CIO a little

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  • wife1014wife1014 member

    I need to transition Abigail and she isn't taking to the cup before naps.

    I don't recall what I did with Abigail.

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  • christine_mariechristine_marie member
    I started by replacing the morning bottle with a sippy and when he was doing good with that I just went cold turkey with the rest of the bottles except the one right before bed. I have no idea when we will drop that one. I'm not too worried about it yet. And he still gets formula in all his cups.
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  • Kara5109Kara5109
    I cut the bottle cold turkey at 10 months. She wouldn't drink as much milk/formula from the sippy, but after a couple of weeks she started to drink her normal amount until she was completely on milk when she decided to go from 3 to only 2 sippys of milk a day.
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  • wife1014wife1014 member
    imagesomanywords:

    what i did with both of mine is cut the day time bottles cold turkey, but kept one night time bottle. I just played that by ear. i did that with both of mine. for nap time they just had to cry it out since they were used to their bottle.

    but the night time bottle, my first (now 3) dropped it on his own. My second (now 18 months) i quit that around 15 months cold turkey....once again at night he had to CIO a little

    this is what i was thinking. 

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    imagewife1014:
    imagesomanywords:

    what i did with both of mine is cut the day time bottles cold turkey, but kept one night time bottle. I just played that by ear. i did that with both of mine. for nap time they just had to cry it out since they were used to their bottle.

    but the night time bottle, my first (now 3) dropped it on his own. My second (now 18 months) i quit that around 15 months cold turkey....once again at night he had to CIO a little

    this is what i was thinking. 

    I dont know if its me being an impatient person or what...but i found it much easier when it came to my boys personalities ( and mine) to cut things cold turkey...im an all or nothing kinda person...we did this with paci's too. I just like that it doesn't drag out

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  • wife1014wife1014 member
    imagesomanywords:
    imagewife1014:
    imagesomanywords:

    what i did with both of mine is cut the day time bottles cold turkey, but kept one night time bottle. I just played that by ear. i did that with both of mine. for nap time they just had to cry it out since they were used to their bottle.

    but the night time bottle, my first (now 3) dropped it on his own. My second (now 18 months) i quit that around 15 months cold turkey....once again at night he had to CIO a little

    this is what i was thinking. 

    I dont know if its me being an impatient person or what...but i found it much easier when it came to my boys personalities ( and mine) to cut things cold turkey...im an all or nothing kinda person...we did this with paci's too. I just like that it doesn't drag out

    wow a newb who makes perfect sense!!!! 

    DH and I are going away this weekend and the girls will be with Grammy. I am doing this next Monday. Thanks for the voice of reasoning.

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  • wife1014wife1014 member
    I should also ask if your babes starting sleeping less?  Abigail just started sttn and I am so scared that the lack of oz's with screw this up.  Maybe that's why I am so scared to stop the bottle.  Fcuk, she's going to bottle fed until she's 12.  This whole post was a waste of space.
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  • wife1014wife1014 member
    imageheckysue:

    imagewife1014:
    I should also ask if your babes starting sleeping less?  Abigail just started sttn and I am so scared that the lack of oz's with screw this up.  Maybe that's why I am so scared to stop the bottle.  Fcuk, she's going to bottle fed until she's 12.  This whole post was a waste of space.
    Ha ha.  Well I'm still nursing C to sleep because I want to, so I can't say for sure.  But I will say that the timing of his food is seeming to become less important as he gets older.  So for example sometimes rather than giving him his late-morning sippy I just give him a small sippy with breakfast if we're headed out to do errands or what have you.  As long as he gets what he needs overall he does fine.  I think their bodies are more ready to just have meals and snacks by this point and they can go overnight just fine.  But this is my instinct based on my own kid, not science or research.  And he's always slept better than Abigail so she may be different that way.

     

    Sure, rub it in Crying

    I don't know why I don't remember any of this.  I am hoping the bottles are just habit and her sleep won't be affected (?). She eats enough solids that's for sure. 

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    imagewife1014:
    I should also ask if your babes starting sleeping less?  Abigail just started sttn and I am so scared that the lack of oz's with screw this up.  Maybe that's why I am so scared to stop the bottle.  Fcuk, she's going to bottle fed until she's 12.  This whole post was a waste of space.

    eh....they have never really been champs at sleeping. Naps are/were fine. Once they got past the initial shock of not having a bottle for nap, they were good. 2-3 hr naps still. night time is different...if my oldest woke up in the middle of the night i gave that kid a bottle...who cares what you are "supposed" to do. it worked for us. he sleeps through the night now. my 18 month old we are doing the same thing. haha did any of this make sense?

    oh and im not a newb :) been around for a long time. but i started back to work when my youngest turned 6 months, had no time to get on here after that...so a few weeks ago I was bored, and forgot my original login info...and had to make up new stuff. home sick today...so here i am.

    hows that for a bunch of info you don't care about :)

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  • FoodieMamaFoodieMama

    imagewife1014:
    I should also ask if your babes starting sleeping less?  Abigail just started sttn and I am so scared that the lack of oz's with screw this up.  Maybe that's why I am so scared to stop the bottle.  Fcuk, she's going to bottle fed until she's 12.  This whole post was a waste of space.

    Yes.  We dropped a bottle and DD stopped sleeping.  However, she was also a little under the weather and teething, so I can't tell what specifically is causing the poor sleep.  That being said, each night when she wakes up she is starving and will guzzle 6 ounces.  Normally if she just isn't feeling well I can rock her back to sleep without a bottle.

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