January 2016 Moms
ShortStuff5
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Getting Off the Bottle
ShortStuff5
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Mother's who have been bottling feeding what are you doing to get your now one year old off the bottle. We started a transitional formula mixed with whole milk half and half she does not like whole milk by itself. She will drink from straw cups not really from sippy cups. She signs when she wants milk and I will try it in a few different sippy cups but she will shake her head no and keep signing for milk until she gets a bottle I hate to cave in to her but that's how she goes down for nap number one and bed time still with a bottle. Trying not to stress to much but I know pedi said it will get harder the older she gets and can mess with her jaw and teeth obviously not something I want to happen. Thinking of trying the 360 cup.
Re: Getting Off the Bottle
Part of me isn't ready to lose the bottles!! I love holding her in my arms and looking into her eyes while she relaxes and does things like play with my hair or rub my leg
We did stop warming our bottles a while ago. DD actually seems to like it better a little chilled. And we're about to start the switch to whole milk. There just seems to be so many changes all at once.
Birdie will take all straw cups/sippies that we've offered. It took her a while to get the hang of the 360, but now she really likes it. She does still want a physical bottle at bedtime and in the morning, but I figure we went from all bottles to only the 2 in one fell swoop and she's never complained. We're still doing half formula/half milk for the bottles, and straight milk or straight water the rest of the time, but only until our formula runs out.
As for warming up bottles - we really only warm up the night time bottle. As PP said I'm really not ready to take away the night time bottle.
As far as holding his own bottle - mine can hold his own but if I'm there holding him or laying next to him he refuses and makes me hold it.
One sippy cup suggestion: we started on sippy cups that have a bottle nipple as the sippy part so it was a really familiar feel, flow etc. so that may be worth looking into. The Avent Trainer cups have both a nipple top and a more traditional sippy top you can change in when they are ready.
We started with the Playtex Sipsters around 5 months with water and she figured it out no problem LINK
She also likes the Gerber (we still use these for water so she knows the difference) and now we just use the cheap plastic ones for milk. Hope that helps!
We introduced the sippy with the convertible nipple to sippy cup opening around 6 months and she never really liked it. Then we tried the straw style probably around 9 months and she took right too it and is a pro with water but will only take a sip of the milk before throwing it.
I tried not really warming her bottle this morning and she only drank an ounce and refused it so I warmed it up more and she drank it.
I consulted with google and read an article that said to treat the switch like weaning, start by giving one less ounce in the bottle and put that once of milk in the sippy at meal time. Then after a few days make it two ounces in the sippy, and so on. I think we're going to give this method a try with daytime bottles this weekend.
We've successfully made the switch from breast, to pumped breast milk, until around 10 months to a combo of formula and breast milk, then to straight formula, and now to straight whole milk, you'd think the temperature and apparatus wouldn't be a big deal to this girl! Babies....
My my daughter is the same. Some days interested in sippy cup, others not.
I worked hard on weaning her from breastfeeding at 10 months. She wouldn't take a bottle or formula for the longest. Now we just got used to it and bang time to change again and take it all away?
She also still takes 4 bottles a day. She eats but not a ton and some days are also hit or miss.
The biggest thing for us was she switched rooms at daycare and was in a room where maybe two other kids consistently got bottles so between being busy and not seeing bottles she just quit asking for them. They also have very structured meal times (breakfast, lunch, snack) which seemed to help). This led to a huge increase in the amount of food/pouches she would eat. It was also around this time we started doing yogurt every morning which seemed to help for whatever reason.
So when we were at her doctors office around 11 months due to an ear infection I asked about starting whole milk a month early and he said go for it since she consistently had cheese and yogurt with no problems.
we had been using the 360 for water since about 9 months so we figured it'd be an easy switch to milk in them however she never really wanted it. For whatever reason she must've associated the 360 with water too much so we tried one of the cheap munchkin spout ones and she chugs milk out of it all day now.
So long story short my best advice is to try a different cup if yours has always taken water but may not be interested in milk! Now we do one bottle at night but that's probably more due to us not wanting to risk messing with her sleep since she is finally sleeping again! I'm pretty positive she could go without it.
Two years, two losses and three IUIs...
We are having TRIPLETS!
EDD 1/26/16
GGB born November 2015!
How are the breastfeeders holding up now with the weaning? I went really slow and it still took such a toll on my hormones and emotions, I was a complete mess!
We're taking a break from trying cups. I got too frustrated. Maybe we'll try again ina month or two.
Now I give milk in 360 cups with meals and snacks. At bedtime we finish off milk from dinner. They don't drink a certain number of ounces all at once. Between meals water from straw cups. I put milk cups in the fridge after meals trying to cut waste.
Two years, two losses and three IUIs...
We are having TRIPLETS!
EDD 1/26/16
GGB born November 2015!