How to Communicate Better with Husband.

You to need a night or day without the baby and talk about what things you want and what he wants every person and family is different and just beacause he wants it a different way than you dosn't make it wrong and just beacause that is how your mom did it dosn't mean that is how you have to do it. My husband and i had almost the same problems except he has an older daughter from a previous relationship and everything was This is how we did it with madison so we had major comprimising going on and every couple months we would sit down and discuss how things were going and what each of us wanted to do things. And now our son is a very healthy and active almost 5 year old and we have a nother on the way. I hope this helps you out. Also parents and in laws always have a lot of info but not everything works for your own particular family. My step daughter had a bottle till almost 2 years old my so was off about 11 1/2 months except night time and that ended about 13 1/2 months.

I agree with the sippy cup idea...get rid of all the bottles in the house (it will be a tough transition for a few days but your daughter will still get what she wants/needs...just in a different way). Start with the NUBY brandy sippy cups, they are a soft nipple like a bottle and transition is very easy. They do leak if the child squeezes the nipple but it will replace the bottle. Stick with it! Just take all the bottles out of the house, or pack them away and forget about em, dont let your husband know where they are. Your daughter is old enough to drink from a sippy cup, relate to it as a big girl cup. Stay strong and good luck!

I agree with the other poster. Sit down and talk about it one night, away from the baby. It's going to be about comprises that work for your family. Make sure Victor knows that you welcome his heritage in the upbringing of the baby and that there has to be a give and take. Rather than an 'I want to do it this way/Well I wanna do it this way' approach, set a goal.(for example, have Emily sleeping through the night in her crib by x number of months) Then figure out how to get to that goal in a way that works for both of you. As far as the bottle issue goes, he might listen to logic rather than "cause my mother said" Find some information online or from your doc stating the problems that prolonged bottle use can cause such as tooth decay, etc. Harder to argue with that kind of logic. Good Luck!

Maybe if you tell him that YOU want your baby off the bottle it will change. Most children are off the bottle by a year, but if you are having trouble getting him to follow suit, don't let her have it at night. Only give her the big girl sippy cups. Even at bed time if you usually give her a bottle, give her a sippy cup. She will learn to prefer the sippy cups since she will get her juice/milk/water faster, and if you get the ones with the soft "nipples" there really won't be much of a diffrence. Once you are sure she is weaned simply get rid of the bottles! If they are not there, he won't be able to give her one. Some of my friends are Mexican, and the child in that family still has a pacifier and it, in my opinion, is impairing her speech, and wrecking her teeth. She is 4. I butt heads with my daughters father (who is African American)about some of the smallest, insignificant things, but he is trying to help raise her the way he was raised, as am I. I wish you patience and you're right, there is a culture gap in your marriage, and this is just the beginning. Good luck with this fight and in the future ones.