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| My son just turned 1 and he takes 3 bottles of milk a day. 1 before each nap and one before bed. He eats 3 meals a day, drinks water from a sippy cup and has fruit for his snacks. I think the bottle is a soothing thing for him but I don't know how to go about weaning him. Any suggestions? |
| Posted by Karin on 07/31/2008 06:30 PM
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Karin,
I am going through the same thing! My daughter, who is 13 months, does the same ritual too. It says in books you are supposed to gradually wean, but she's onto me if I dilute her bottle with less formula and more water, and she won't drink it and then she's super hungry. Not to mention she is a very finnicky eater and won't eat most of what we give her solid wise. She likes baby foods but I can only feed her those for so long, right? I mean, I don't want her to be 2 and stilll eating baby food! lol! Most of my friends babies eat all sort of grownup foods, but my daughter is just silly!
I hope we can get some good suggestions here. Maybe good to post to some of the other groups too!
Hugs!
Kaulana :) |
| posted by Kaulana on 07/31/2008 07:03 PM
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Lol I tried 4 different cups (including 1 with a straw) and my daughter still wanted nothing to do with drinking milk from them! (Mind you she had been using a sippy since about 5 months to drink juice and water) I stopped "really trying" at 14 months. At 15 months she was READY (key word for my daughter...she's a little stubborn :)}. I found this "tumbler" cupby playtex, it is a stage 4 but it looks like a travel coffee mug, (which looks like mommy's cup) and she took right to it. She drinks her milk out of that with no complaints. She just turned 16 months and only has one bottle before bed. I figure she will let me know when she is done with the bottle.
Maybe start by subbing his nap bottle out with a sippy, and slowly go from there. Or go cold turkey?
If you really want your little one off the bottle now, my friend had her son throw all his bottles away. She said he did it with out a fight and never asked for it again. (He was closer to 18 months though ).
Another suggestion would be to pack up the bottles (with your child's help) and give them to a baby who needs them. (if you know any other babies).
I hope some of this helps! Good Luck & let me know how it goes.
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| posted by Amanda on 07/31/2008 08:33 PM
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| My son also drinks from the Playtex Tumbler cup (which looks like a travel coffee mug), which he uses during meals for milk. For water though, he still uses a sippy cup for some reason. I sometimes let him drink from my cup when we're in a safe environment (i.e. not on my light carpet). |
| posted by Heather on 07/31/2008 09:43 PM
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When we took the bottle away from my daughter we started telling her that bottles are for babbies and that she was a big girl and would give her a big girl cup. She loves Dora so we got her on with Dora on it and that seemed to work. I don't remember for sure what age we did this but I am pretty sure it was around 15 months. She now drinks out of a sippy cup or a regular cup with help. She sees a bottle and she knows that they are for babies. Good luck
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| posted by Heather on 07/31/2008 09:51 PM
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| Heather that brings back memories for me, we told my son the bottle was for babies and he started calling it his "Baby" he did eventually stop taking them it didn't take long and just offered a sippy cup instead of the bottle and when they love that milk they will eventually take it any way it will come |
| posted by amy on 07/31/2008 10:33 PM
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These are all great suggestions, ladies, thank you. Its not so much that she won't take anything unless its a bottle, because she does drink from her sippy cup. I think its more that she likes the formula, and it fills her up, because she won't eat enough solid food to get herself full.
What do you think, Karin?
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| posted by Kaulana on 08/01/2008 12:18 AM
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| Why not keep her on the formula? I know Enfamil makes formula for 9-24 months. |
| posted by Amanda on 08/01/2008 12:35 AM
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| Because honestly, I have heard and believe, after knowing my child the last 13 months, that its quite a difficult thing to take away a comfort object the longer it goes on. Its easier to move away from the bottle of formula at a year and a half than trying with a 2 year old. We do use the Enfamil 9-24months; we started at 9 months, but I had no intention of using it until 2 years old. I just think it will be harder on her the longer we put it off. I really want to drop her mid day bottle, and move on from there. |
| posted by Kaulana on 08/01/2008 01:23 AM
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| That's exactly it. The bottle is a comfort object and ritual before he goes to sleep...whether it's at nap time or bedtime. He justed turned 1 on Wednesday but I have to assume the longer I give him a bottle the harder it will get to stop him. I did just read that it needs to be done slowly. I need to stop giving him his 2nd bottle and replace it with a cup...but still relax and hold him. Then after a few days stop givng the 1st bottle...and so on. Never did I think it would be so difficult. |
| posted by Karin on 08/01/2008 07:15 PM
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