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bottles/nursing

nschuetz01nschuetz01 member
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When do you get rid of the bottles and how? Are there signs? I feel like it's easier and harder fort me since I Bf when I'm with him.
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Re: bottles/nursing

  • nschuetz01nschuetz01 member
    Wow I feel like my ds is drinking and using a bottle a lot then....in his 9 hr days he gets 3 bottles for a total of 9 to 12 oz. Then he comes home and nurses about 2 or 3 more times. How much milk is normal/adequate at this age?
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  • emberlee3emberlee3 member
    There is no need to stop nursing unless you or your LO are ready to do so. 

    The daytime bottles can be replaced with sippy cups (water or milk).  If your LO is a good eater and still gets BM when you are together, there is no need for cow's milk.  DD is 16 months and drinks only water, since she is allergic to dairy.
    DS born 8/8/09 and DD born 6/12/12.
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  • melody921melody921 member
    We started giving her milk in a cup instead of a bottle around 10 months (I didn't want to be transitioning from BM to WCM and bottle to sippy all at once). 

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  • beccalee721beccalee721 member

    I've been exclusively pumping since 6 months, but we switched to the soft spout sippy cups at 9 months and just made the transition to the normal hard spout sippy cups this week (11.5 months). The way we had to do it with both transitions was to switch over her water first and then her BM after a few days. The transition to hard spout went a little easier, but we always made sure it wasn't a fight. When we first put her BM in the new cup if she rejects it after a few tries we would just switch it back and try at the next bottle time until she makes it all the way thru without fighting the cup. I think switching the water first helped a lot because she isn't emotionally attached to water the way she was her milk.

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  • nschuetz01nschuetz01 member
    DS has been eating relatively well (solids) since probably 9 or 10 months. He drinks water GREAT from those straw cups, has been for probably the same amount of time. So it sounds like what you ladies are saying is to just stop sending bottles to daycare, give him milk/water in the sippy and if he only gets 4 or 5 ounces at daycare it's no big deal!?
    The sitter still gives him a bottle before she feeds him solids...thus isn't necessary at this point anymore, right?
    Thanks so much ladies!
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