I have a question about transitioning away from boob to sippies or straw cups. How do I feed lo to sleep with a straw cup if she is sitting up drinking from a straw? Does she just have to eat and then go to sleep? Do you all have some way of lying them down with a straw cup? I dont get it. Also, I apologize for asking constant questions about boobs, sippies, straws, napping, ad nauseum. I feel like it is all I talk about.
I have a question about transitioning away from boob to sippies or straw cups. How do I feed lo to sleep with a straw cup if she is sitting up drinking from a straw? Does she just have to eat and then go to sleep? Do you all have some way of lying them down with a straw cup? I dont get it. Also, I apologize for asking constant questions about boobs, sippies, straws, napping, ad nauseum. I feel like it is all I talk about.
I'm not sure how others do it but what I've started to do is read LO a story in the glider and let him have his straw cup. At the end of the story, I take the cup and turn off the light then rock him to sleep.
He hated this at first - he'd always nursed or bottle-fed to sleep. But in less than a week he caught on and is ok with it now.
Hi friends! I've been really MIA lately but things have been crazy busy. I try to at least lurk at night to keep up with you all, and have been an expert giver-of-f*cks/validator-of-feels/love-titter.
DD is FF, but we are really struggling with the transition from bottle to sippy. She will drink one tiny sip and that's it. This has been gong on for awhile. It's starting to stress me out. I don't know if I should keep trying with the same cup, keep trying new ones until one sticks, or what. And she it's definitely still up twice a night eating. DS was nothing like this so I feel completely clueless.
Post by broccolisgirl on Jan 25, 2015 13:40:33 GMT -5
ramfan05 we aren't going to transition to sippies for milk. We'll switch to a cup and straw at some point, but ds2 isn't down with switching yet. Any harm in just letting her keep the bottles for a little bit?
Lo will only take one type of sippy...it looks exactly like a bottle but a different top, that's the only way she'd take it.
Lo is 1 on Thursday and I have all the feels about weaning. She gets 1 bottle a day now of wcm, but I'm sad to wean completely. I've been trying hard to soak in the last few nursing sessions...no phone or distractions, just me and her and I rub her back, etc.
Okay so my bff/sis in law is pregnant and due sept, and my other good friend told me yesterday she's due in September with her third. I have such baby fever now and want to join their baby party!
ramfan05 we aren't going to transition to sippies for milk. We'll switch to a cup and straw at some point, but ds2 isn't down with switching yet. Any harm in just letting her keep the bottles for a little bit?
I guess not, really. DS was completely off of bottles (even his bedtime one) by his first birthday, but it was not because of anything I really did, I don't think. I just have it in my head that she will be one in a few weeks, and one means no more bottles. I know she'll be fine, but I just can't help but wonder sometimes if I'm doing something wrong.
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I feel like a first time mom sometimes with DD. She is so different from DS and sometime I think I am doing everything wrong!
ramfan05 we aren't going to transition to sippies for milk. We'll switch to a cup and straw at some point, but ds2 isn't down with switching yet. Any harm in just letting her keep the bottles for a little bit?
I guess not, really. DS was completely off of bottles (even his bedtime one) by his first birthday, but it was not because of anything I really did, I don't think. I just have it in my head that she will be one in a few weeks, and one means no more bottles. I know she'll be fine, but I just can't help but wonder sometimes if I'm doing something wrong.
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I feel like a first time mom sometimes with DD. She is so different from DS and sometime I think I am doing everything wrong!
I totally get it. I just try to remember that every baby is different, and they'll let you know when they're ready. Ds1 took wcm from bottles until 14-15mo. Then we switched to a cup and straw held by one of us. It's just what worked for us.
Thanks caer ! DH is trying your method right now. Hopefully, she'll give it a shot. She's taken pretty well to water from a straw cup but she won't drink milk.
betheliz omg the peter rabbit plates! I love them. I had so much peter rabbit stuff as a kid. And +1 to husband not understanding EPing after a freaking year. We had a bust day once and he complained that me pumping was inconvenient to his schedule. Well geez, sorry having a pump attached to me a few hours a day inconveniences YOU. And when I has bad vasospasms and was asking him to turn up the heat in the car which he hates I really wanted to give him purple nurples til he started to understand.
stuck in box. ugh! inconvenient?!?!? thank you for the solidarity. I could not like this post more!
Post by ivedonethisb4 on Jan 25, 2015 14:59:48 GMT -5
ramfan05 since we're past the birthday and our one year visit was last Monday..our pedi is super anti bottle past 1 but G just doesn't drink as good from a sippy. We've really worked hard at it and tried sippy after sippy and straw cup after straw cup..she still gets a bottle if she wakes hungry in MOTN and we gave her more this weekend because she was sick but the pedi said as long as she has two good wet diapers and eats well not to worry.
My issue is I worry about her dropping calories inadvertently if she doesn't drink lots of milk because she's still small but the pedi is happy with her size considering her history.
ivedonethisb4 re:bottle vs sippy I would do what is best for G... maybe do a sippy 1 time a day and bottle the rest? Then make it a slower process to wean to the bottle. Mama knows best, and it's totally fine for her to still have bottles if that's what she needs.
ivedonethisb4 re:bottle vs sippy I would do what is best for G... maybe do a sippy 1 time a day and bottle the rest? Then make it a slower process to wean to the bottle. Mama knows best, and it's totally fine for her to still have bottles if that's what she needs.
Yeah I'm not stressing it.
She gets no bottles during the day at MIL's and she does pretty good she just doesn't do it for me like she will for her...she still doesn't know how to tip s bottle or cup up to drink so she's still a little slow. I don't mind helping.
I kind of use my dc's policies as a guideline for myself. They want kids off bottles when they transition to the toddler room at 18ish months (though they'll give a bottle if it's necessary even). LO doesn't do a lot of bottle or sippy yet, but I'm giving myself some time and space to relax into this transition. I don't think there's a hard and fast rule, and I think I'd question my pedi if he said something like "12m1d? No more bottles ever" without allowing for individual needs and development. Surely pedis should know that every baby transitions in a different way and on a different time schedule.
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