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Hi again :-)
If he doesnt seem to mind that it is gone dont give it back, this will only make it harder when he is older. |
| posted by on 09/06/2007 10:30 AM
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| We broke our daughter around the same age and she reacted the same as your son. She woke up the first couple of nights and went right back to sleep, but after that it was nothing. My mom made comments about keeping one at her house "just in case" since my daughter doesn't sleep there very much, but I put my foot down. The older they are the harder it is to break them. My niece will be three in October and she still takes hers. You are the parent and it's your decision!! |
| posted by Cinda on 09/06/2007 10:37 AM
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I hate saying this because it may sound rude to the grandparents and great grandparents, but I would say find a way of telling them this is your decision as a couple and as a family. And you have decide to go by what the doctor thinks is best. I know that is easier said than done, but it is your family and you all need to do what is best for you.
Nice to see a Daddy in the group! |
| posted by Jennifer on 09/06/2007 10:38 AM
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| My n-laws are the opp. They are on me to break my daughter. She is almost 20 months and still gets it at night and nap. We take it from her when she gets up. She will get it occ. when we go some where orsomething like that. Our pedi said it was o.k but when she turns 2 we are taking it for good.I hope lol. I think it is great you got your son off early i really wish i would have started earlier but i didnt.oh well. But i agree it is your decision and i would put my foot down. |
| posted by Natasha on 09/06/2007 10:49 AM
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| Thanks for the feedback. I doon't regret taking him off it, neither does my wife. But it's her parents and she doesn't want to upset them, so she just takes it and lets them continue with their passive-aggressive comments 'tell mommy to give you that pacifier'. Something may be said if they continue, but I respect the fact that they are from an older generation and many of the things we know today about raising healthy children wasn't vailable to them when they were parents of infants/toddlers. And some of their advice is genuinely good. But this is not one of those times. Now all we have to do is get rid of the bottle and move one to sippy cups all the time. What is the best time to that? Our Dr. also reccommends soon. |
| posted by Mark on 09/06/2007 12:20 PM
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We broke our daughter at 12 months. A month before we broke her of the pacifier. I started introducing her to a sippy cup as soon as she could hold her bottle. I got the kind with the soft top because they were easier for her to get drink out of. As she started eating more and more solids I cut out one bottle every month. Finally she was down to just one bottle right before bed time and it seemed to help her go to sleep. So we did the same thing as we did with the paci here too. We picked a weekend and just let her stay up until she was too tired to stay awake. That way she would just pass out when we layed her down and she would get used to going to sleep without it. It only took a couple of nights of this and she was only an hour or two past bed time.
Don't forget to wean your son off of formula (as long as your doctor says it okay). It was a three week process for us. 1st week 1/4 milk, 3/4 formula. 2nd week 1/2 milk and 1/2 formula. 3rd week 1/4 formula, 3/4 milk. 4th week all milk. |
| posted by Cinda on 09/06/2007 12:33 PM
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| Wee started our daughter with a sippy at 6 months and so when it came time to break the bottle she did it her self. At 11 months she would not have it.The passy is a diff. story. We used diff. sippys. But the ones by nuby with the soft nipples may make for easy transition. Does your son ever drink from one like his juice? That is what we gave my daughter but her formula was in a bottle. |
| posted by Natasha on 09/06/2007 04:33 PM
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Wow Mark Im surpised the in laws like the pacifier so much. BUt remember that is confusing your son dont u think. He will never be considered off of it til they stop giving it him. U did such a good job weening him from it why let the inlaws ruin that
Laura |
| posted by laura on 09/06/2007 06:56 PM
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| No, Laura they don't give one to him. That would not fly, believe me. It's just hurting my wife's feelings when they can't keep their comments to themselves. We know we made the right decision. It's just creating a tension between them that they don't understand why we did it. And explaining it to them is like impossible. They're too set in their ways. |
| posted by Mark on 09/06/2007 07:31 PM
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oh sorry Mark I read the messsage too fast.
Stick to your guns u did well getting rid of the paci so easily.
I waiting til Nick was 2 it was easy amazigly BUT it also could of been difficult too.
Good job ! |
| posted by laura on 09/06/2007 08:57 PM
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| If he isnt missing it, he doesnt need it right? Thats the way I look at it anyway......I hope Amaya is the same way as your son, she is only 5 weeks, but alot fo the time she isnt interested in it she will spit it right out then sometimes she will wants it for just a few minutes then she is good, but as she gets older this will probably change. |
| posted by Sarah on 09/07/2007 07:39 PM
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Mark,
Good to see a dad on here.
Now about the pacifier. We stopped it with our son at 11 months. It wasn't a problem he just wanted it less so we gave it to him less and less and then put them in the drawer.
As for the bottle to sippy cup question. I think your supposed to switch to a sippy cup at 6 months. We did it at 9 months. At that age we used Nuby, From 12 months on we've used Avent and Gerber. We like the Gerber becase it's easier for him to hold by himself.
Hope that helps. I think it's great your so into caring for your child. Keep up the good work. |
| posted by Melinda on 09/09/2007 12:18 PM
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| Don't listen to them!!!! He doesn't need it. |
| posted by on 09/09/2007 02:36 PM
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| Thanks to all who replied. It's nice to have some support when old parenting advice clashes with new. He doesn't need it, and he hasn't so much as looked back from it. As far as the sippy goes...he's getting used to it. Believe it or not, I'm actually having to go head to head with mommy on this one. I think she just wants him to stay a little man just a while longer. I am using the nuby and the gerbers. I like the ones with the silicone nip, but it's really just like a bottle. So in that respect I am trying to use only the plastic ones. And the gerber curved ones do seem easier for him to hold. I got him used to them by actually removing the vent for a while at letting it free flow. They really don't even drip that much like this. But it got Devin used to drinking from the plastic. He's getting better at it each day, and we'll just keep on trying to convince mommy that we don't need the bottle anymore. |
| posted by Mark on 09/13/2007 03:29 PM
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Mark that is awesome job with the sippy. I use the gerber curved and the little 5 oz sippys from gerber as well my 2 1/2 yr old has been using now for the longest. Of course he wont drink milk from it though. So when I dropped the bottle I knew he still needed calcium so I give him at least one serving of cheese, one yougurt (I use yumsters for kids it has less sugar and the same protein and calcium as the yo baby which I hated cause it is so liguidy he couldnt feed himself) and in the morning first thing he gets a BIG bowl of gerber oatmeai with MILK :O)
Have fun !
Laura |
| posted by laura on 09/13/2007 09:23 PM
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| Just blame it on the doctor and say "the doctor.......", maybe it'll be easier for them to acept it. |
| posted by Esther on 09/15/2007 12:12 AM
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