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Babies: 9 - 12 Months
BabyBoyNYC
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Does anyone else feel like your baby will never wean off formula?
BabyBoyNYC
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I just don't understand how this is ever going to happen? I've tried weaning off his 4:30am bottle with water but all that happens is he huffs and puffs and sleeps poorly until 5:30-6 when I give it to him and then he sleeps soundly until 7:30, and i'm just thinking I should give in and give him that bottle since it seems he must really want it, but then I just feel super behind. The thing is he is a HUGE eater he takes 4 bottles plus 3 solid meals a day and drinks every last drop and eats every little bit of his solids, plus he drinks a lot of water. Its like he is a bottomless pit. I just don't know how i will ever drop bottles, and when I read people in here dropping the morning bottle that just seems impossible to me. I guess when he sttn it will get easier
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Re: Does anyone else feel like your baby will never wean off formula?
Our daughter just dropped the mid morning bottle (about 9:30am)
Right now she gets 3 7/8oz bottles (wake up, 1:30ish, bedtime). In between those she is constantly eating--3 meals plus one definite snack (where the other bottle was--right before her morning nap). Ideally by 12 months I would love to be at a bedtime bottle and a morning bottle and go from there.
Around 9 months and until 1/2 way through her 10th month, my DD started wanting a night bottle around 1am and then another one at 4:30am. She would drink every drop of them so I told myself that she must need them. But in reality, she was getting plenty in the day, so I figured maybe it was just habit. One night, when she woke up (we bedshare) around 1am, I just kept laying her back down and surprisingly, she went back to sleep. After a couple nights of this, she no longer asks for night time bottles! Thank goodness!!! It may be a phase for your LO too.
As far as transitioning off of formula...yes, I'm nervous about this too. I worry that she won't eat enough food and our nighttime routine is so scheduled and her bottle is part of that. I haven't started any part of the transition and here I am just a coulple of weeks away from her 1st bday. Kinda freaking out, lol, but everyone says it's not that big of a deal so fingers crossed that it goes smoothly for all of us!
B is 9 months, on soy formula, and he takes 5 bottles plus 3 meals a day. Granted, the first two bottles (with breakfast and lunch) are only between 2-4 ounces each and the rest are usually 6-8, but I'm not worried. If it is what he needs, it's what he needs. He's in the 95th percentiles in height and weight, so I figure my big boy needs a lot of food! We will gradually wean from his Prosobee to probably the Enfamil toddler soy formula, and hopefully drop bottles as we do it.
I don't get why people are in such a rush to have their 9 or 10 month old just eating regular kid food. The baby will get there when he is ready - why does a 9 month old need to eat a grilled cheese sandwich or chicken fingers? I don't get it. Babies are babies, let them eat baby food.
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this is how i feel! i just don't see him ever rejecting formula and i feel this way because even after getting pretty decent sized solid meals he still drinks the same amount of formula and i've only been able to lower it maybe 2oz. I'll worry about it in 2 months but its going to fly by