Schedule with no bottles....

jgallegos0316 · March 2013

I need some advice about changing my LO schedule to accommodate not having morning and nighttime bottles....here's What we have started since yesterday......

6am. Wake up-breakfast and milk

9am-10am morning nap

12pm lunch and water

1:15-3pm afternoon nap

3:15 snack and milk

5pm dinner and milk

6:15 bath

6:45 bottle, storytime and then bed at 7pm

What I can't figure out is how to get rid of the bedtime bottle. By the time I get home from the sitter with him at 445 or 5 he's screaming for his dinner.sometimes it's as early as 430..... So I really can't push back dinner time.

Jezzabella08 · March 2013

I agree that getting rid of the milk in the morning and night is not a necessity. DD has a sippy cup of milk when she wakes up and before bed. She has breakfast a bit later 8:309 and has dinner around 5:155:30.

talitha712 · March 2013

Not bedtime bottle related exactly, but I didn't notice a morning snack on your schedule. 6am to noon is a long time to go without food when you're a toddler. That might also help with wanting dinner so early.

I find that when DD eats throughout the day she is less hungry in the evenings, so your LO may not be fussing as early for dinner if he had another snack.

And fwiw DD usually eats dinner around 5:00 or 5:30 and goes to bed between 6:157:00. She goes down easily with no bottle and STTN unless she wakes up enough to realize her pacifier is gone : Have you tried without the night bottle? We waited until a weekend so that if DD woke up early because she was hungry it was no big deal. Much to our surprise, she slept fine. I know that's not the case for all babies, and I think at this age a bedtime bottle or sippy is still completely fine, but I'd you're wanting to cut that bottle out it might go okay.

dizzycooks · March 2013

I give DD a sippy right when she wakes up and we have one when we read her stories before bed. Lately she's more interested in the books we read than her sippy though. I let her decide how much she wants to drink. DD also gets milk with lunch, you might consider adding milk then to add a few calories. If you are concerned about his teeth, have you tried offering water in a sippy before bed?

Brit's Luna154 · March 2013

talitha712:
Not bedtime bottle related exactly, but I didn't notice a morning snack on your schedule. 6am to noon is a long time to go without food when you're a toddler. That might also help with wanting dinner so early. I find that when DD eats throughout the day she is less hungry in the evenings, so your LO may not be fussing as early for dinner if he had another snack.

This. Figure out how to feed LO more earlier in the day.

phillyfan929 · March 2013

we still do a sippy of milk before bed. I know I already have his teeth brushed but I don't care. he sleeps for typically 12 hours so I operate under "if its not broken don't fix it."

bigbear · March 2013

I agree with PPs. Night time bottle isn't the worst thing. My DD still gets bottle in the morning and in the evening. (Well if she choses, she sometimes doesn't want it and I let her drive that) But your LO definitely needs to snack a bit more Even if they don't complain or ask for food they are hungry they just get so busy that they don't realize it so we are the reminder.

DD will typically have at least 3 Oz when she wakes up. She doesn't want breakfast right away (whether she gets a bottle or not) but will wait at least an hour or two to eat breakfast so by 9 am she'll have eaten a breakfast. About 2 hrs later she has a snack then goes down for a nap. After a nap she'll sometimes munch on a few cheerios with a little milk until lunch is ready. Then she eats lunch. Two hrs later she'll have another snack and go down for another nap. Then she'll have another little snack.

We get back from work a bit later so she doesn't eat dinner until about 7.00 So therefore she has two snacks in the afternoon.

Then before bed she'll have another bottle. Sometimes it's 6 Oz sometimes only a couple. She sleeps about 8hrs/night which is the most we get out of her so if that bottle is helping, we are keepint it.

OH and sorry for the typos. I forgot my glasses today so I don't know exactly what I'm typing at all times LOL

jgallegos0316 · March 2013

I didn't mean I wanted to get rid of milk... Just bottles. Since my post I have been giving my LO a sippy cup with milk and breakfast when he wakes up. Then a snack after his morning nap. Then lunch and another pretty hefty size snack and milk after he wakes up from his pm nap around 3-330. Dinner is still between 5-530. I have noticed tho that with adding a morning snack he isn't screaming for dinner at 445-5,like before. He also hangs onto his milk while he plays after dinner and goes back and forth to it as he wants to...

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