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Bottle Weaning
I need some advice for weaning my 17 month old off the bottle! After weaning several children you would ..... weaning baby off bottle · bottle to sippy cup ...
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- A few weeks before my son turned two, I just started givinig him a sippy cup whenever he wanted a drink, but still allowed the bottle for nap and bedtime. Then, I exc...
- My twins loved their bottle so much that they refused the sippy cup. I had to go cold turkey on them. It took less than a day for them to realize that if they wanted s...
- Hey T., My son is 2 1/2 and still has a bottle in the morning/night. Some days he doesn't, depending on the mood and I am the only one he asks. He doesn't walk arou...
Trying to Wean and Improve Sleep Patterns in a 16 Mo Old
We just weaned our 18 month old boy from night time nursing And are getting much better .... how to wean from breastfeeding · when to wean baby from bottle ...
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- K., First I need to say - congratulations for nursing this long. You have not created BAD habits. You have provided your daughter with nourishment and comfort. As na...
- Hi K., At 16 months old, babies still have that "sucking" need, and unfortunately it goes into the night when they need to be soothed the most. It's hard tell if i...
- Hi K., So, sleep has been a huge challenge for us as well. I am still nursing my 25 month old. He was in bed with us and nursing all night long (sometimes waking ...
Need Help on Weaning 17 Month Old off His Bottle!!!
I am weaning him off slowly using sippy cups half the time and bottles with ... Most of the common wisdom about needing to teach a baby to "self soothe" ...
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- Hi G.. When I transitioned my son off the bottle I gave him less and less each night. So for instance if he got 6 oz before bed monday night, I gave him 5 the next and...
- You are already doing the right thing... so very slowly when taking away the bottles. Try to give him just a little milk in a bottle and a full sippy cup at the sam...
- Hi G.: I JUST went through this with my daughter. First off, my oldest was off the bottle at 12mo, he hated it, yet he loved the paci. My daughter, who is 21mo no...
Getting Baby off of Formula
Should I wean her off formula or go "cold turkey"?Any suggestions..." ... Next question: Weaning Baby off of the Bottle and Switching to Whole Milk ...
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- I would try to give her whole milk, and see how she reacts. If she doesn't take to it right away, I would slowly start adding an ounce or two of milk to her formula ev...
- Annie, I did 24 hours no formula, lots of Pedialyte then after the 24 hours start the whole milk. My only suggestion is that you use the highes quality of whole milk.
- I would ask your doctor if it is ok to switch this early. From what I know you are suppose to wait until the child a year old. In any case, I just switch to whole mi...
Weaning
I just had to wean my son off the bottle o july 7th and I did with him the same I did with .... Weaning Baby off of the Bottle and Switching to Whole Milk ...
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- With you expecting another baby, I'd pack up the bottles and put them away until the next one comes. What we did with our son, was we started doing weaning him off the...
- We started out with mixing half formula and half milk in a bottle then to a cup with meals.... then slowly they all three took it full time . The meal time will be com...
- If you have already started giving her a sippy cup it should be easy. However if your daughter is anything like how my son was the bottle was his comfort. This may sou...
Weaning off the Breast
Now she is 17 months old and is almost off the bottle, (her choice) I give her a choice of a ... Next question: Advice on Weaning Baby from Bottle/formula ...
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- Oh lord some cases is very easy some other take a wile and other are jut like feeling of not wanting but willing:)) I breastfeed my girl until she was almost 2! But my...
- Hi N., First off, congratulations to you! You nursed your son for a full year! (not a lot of mums make it that far). The difficult part now is weaning. I wou...
- My son also had a hard time with the weaning process becuase he never drank out of a bottle so the cup was a hard concept to grasp. We had success with juice box type ...
Transitioning from Formula to Milk and Then Weaning
Wow, I didn't even think of "weaning" my son off the bottle or off Formula I just started ... Weaning Baby off of the Bottle and Switching to Whole Milk ...
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- Hi K., With my 3 kids I started by giving them milk in their cups at meal time when they were 10 months (I know their not supposed to have milk until 12 months :) ). ...
- I started with 3/4 formula, 1/4 milk to start introducing the new flavor. After a couple of days I went to half and half, then mostly milk, and finally just milk. As...
- My dr. told me to start putting a lil bit of milk in his formula bottle. Start one week putting so many ounces of miik, Like 2 ounces and then every week, as long as h...
Weaning 11 Mo Old off the Bottle
I am trying to start weaning my 11 month old daughter off the bottle. ... Cows milk is really only for baby cows and there is great detriment in giving ...
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- Here's my two cents, water down the milk in her bottle and she will learn the milk thats not water down is in the sippy cup. Both my kids pretty much gave up thier bot...
- My son did the same thing. He was about 8 and a half months when I decided he could handle the sippy cup full-time. You just have to be strong and stick by your decisi...
- I know this isn't exactly what you asked, but might help, too. If you do night bottles, she might have learned that sucking gets her to sleep. To teach her to fall a...
Weaning the Bottle
My son is 15 months and we have been trying to wean him off of the bottle. He has been taking a sippy cup with meals since he is 6 months old. ...
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- Hi C., We just went through this a few months ago. At 21 mos we just threw all the bottles out and went cold turkey. It was 2 days of crabbiness and asking where it...
- Dear C., The first thing you want to do is worry more about the sippy cup than the bottle. Get him off the sippy cup. They cause the develpment of a "tounge thrust"...
- We also weaned my son at 15 months, who, like yours, was still having a morning and nighttime bottle. We couldn't bear to go cold turkey. We substituted the morning bo...
Weaning from Bottle
Don't stress about taking him off of the bottle. I didn't start weaning my ... I don't want to keep my baby a baby, but I also think that rushing them out ...
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- Hi S., I didn't start weaning my daughter from the bottle until she was a year old and even then, we took it slow. I first took away the afternoon bottle, replacin...
- Hello! I am not a pediatrician, just a mom. Consider an alternative perspective. Babies in many parts of the world are still nursing at 2 years. Now in the US, t...
- In all honesty, this is something I don't agree with the doctors on. They are happy to let me breast-feed past one year, so why can't they have a bottle? Just make s...
