@Bandteacher - babies eating

[bennieangel]

I want all the details of what your day with naps & food looks like now...including how much you're offering them. Do they not need or take any bottles or anything before naps? How did you transition that?

Bonus if you live post with pictures today so I can visualize!

I am struggling to grasp how this transition works. Like seriously struggling. Maybe we will just keep him on bottles until he's 5 or so? Haha.

[bebeski]

Following!!!

[jtizzay]

I don't get it ether. Going to stick with bottles until she's five as well

[wildhoney4508]

LOL I'm a STM and I feel clueless about this sometimes as well!! I read last night that "you can transition baby off of their bedtime bottle between 6-9 months. No need for that bottle at 9 months." DH and I lol'ed SO MUCH bc that's SO not happening. She loves her "ba ba" before bed. Oye!!

[bennieangel]

wildhoney4508 us too. He doesn't fall asleep with it but it's for sure a part of his nap & bed routine. It's how he calms & transitions.

[lincbeesmom]

Following!

[ntdane]

Those of you with LOs in daycare, talk to their teachers about the transition. I know ours did a lot with the kids for that, especially since the daytime bottles were the first to go. My memory of DS1 is also terrible, but I know eventually we just replaced his bottle before bed with a sippy of WCM and just let him drink while we read stories. Then we put him in his crib and he went to sleep. The toughest part for us was putting him to bed awake because he previously nursed to sleep. During the day I think they just started cutting back in the amount in bottles and offering milk w/meals.

This time around I feel clueless too and we're already at the year mark. Owen can fall asleep on his own but he still doesn't do cups well and is small so I'm just trying to work on that at meals for now. Keira just started WCM and loves it, but she either nurses to sleep or needs to be walked around the house to fall asleep. I'm not fully sure I'm ready to wean her from nursing, but it might be time if only to help her learn to sleep. How to do that, I don't know.

[lincbeesmom]

ntdane linc nurses to sleep too. We'll sort of. We lie down in bed, he'll nurse, crawl around, put his head down, nurse some more, flip over, sing a little, ten fall asleep. I'm dreading weaning, his crib, the whole thing.

[g33kyg1rly]

We're currently on 4 bottles a day. We're giving breakfast right away in the morning instead of a morning bottle. Then a bottle before each nap. A bottle around 4-4:30pm before dinner (we eat dinner around 6 and I've been hesitant to let her go that long without food), and a bottle before bed. I'm also offering formula in a straw cup at every meal to get her used to the idea of drinking milk with her meals. So far she only drinks an ounce or two at meals, but I'm hoping that's because she knows the bottles are still around and she loves her food. I've also started offering 8oz for all of her bottles in hopes of dropping the 4pm bottle (the one she's least interested in).

Once she starts WCM I figure I'll start by dropping the 4pm bottle if we haven't already (we may need to start eating dinner earlier), and convert the two before-nap bottles into snacks with a cup of milk. The bedtime bottle will be the last to go. First I'm going to try to move it before her bath instead of after (so she can brush her teeth after her bath), then hopefully change it to a cup of milk.

After she drops to one nap, I figure our schedule may look something like this:

7am - wakeup/breakfast
9am - snack(?)
11am - lunch
12pm - nap
3pm - snack
5:30-6pm - dinner
8pm - bed

That's my wishful thinking anyway

[jjsmom80]

Daycare started doing the two mid day bottles as sippy's about two months ago and i'm pretty sure he likes the sippy even better than the bottle at this point. He tilts it up and chugs it like a frat boy chugs beer, it's actually quite a amusing. I started last week doing his am bottle as a sippy and it's going pretty well. We basically just have his pm bottle now and depending on when he had his bottle at daycare, i can get away with doing a sippy with dinner and get all 4 daily formula sessions as sippys. I save the bottles for when he's cranky and not feeling well. He's on total solid food too, no puree's basically eats whatever we eat.

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Feb 21, 2015 14:57:10 GMT -5 lincbeesmom said:

ntdane linc nurses to sleep too. We'll sort of. We lie down in bed, he'll nurse, crawl around, put his head down, nurse some more, flip over, sing a little, ten fall asleep. I'm dreading weaning, his crib, the whole thing.

I used to bed share with E and she nursed all night too. I thought it was going to be a tough transition to her crib but it really wasn't. The hardest part was me forcing myself to get out of bed and stay out of bed. I guess the difference is that I always started E out in her crib bc I figured as soon as she starts STTN the transition will happen naturally.

It was time for her to stay in her bed and out of ours bc my back was killing me. I was sleeping in a very uncomfortable position and I couldn't tolerate the discomfort any longer.

[yalllow]

Feb 21, 2015 11:12:51 GMT -5 wildhoney4508 said:

LOL I'm a STM and I feel clueless about this sometimes as well!! I read last night that "you can transition baby off of their bedtime bottle between 6-9 months. No need for that bottle at 9 months." DH and I lol'ed SO MUCH bc that's SO not happening. She loves her "ba ba" before bed. Oye!!

Yeah, that last one isn't going to disappear either. He loves it and looks forward to it.