Post by chiawombat on Jan 30, 2015 17:42:23 GMT -5
We are bottles probably 90% of the time. The 10% we use sippies tends to frustrate her. Her pedi didn't mention it and her dcp doesn't seem to care, so we haven't pushed it. She did just recently decide that straws are cool, so it's possible we might be on the path to sippies, but we aren't there at all yet.
Post by jessasaurus on Jan 30, 2015 19:06:10 GMT -5
Another one still using bottles here. We are trying to phase out the day time bottles (not successfully). She still gets morning and bedtime bottles. And if I'm being honest, she will get a day time bottle if I don't think she has had enough milk yet that day because paranoid.
We're still on bottles here, too. W will drink out of sippies but they're messy and takes forever. I'll work harder on transitioning when we switch to wcm in about a week.
I just posted this in randoms earlier today, but for now I'm giving in to bottles... T had refused them since 6m, but yesterday in a fit of defeat with the sippy I attempted a bottle just to see if we could salvage the use of pumped milk.
He sucked it down. This made me feel horrible that I'm trying to force the sippy issue, and he is spitting milk everywhere, and he really is hungry... I didn't want to go backwards to bottles when he wasn't using them anyway.
It is what it is though... I'd really like to get him on WCM shortly after his bday, and start the daytime weaning process... So if bottles provide more of a soothing transition then so be it. He won't be broken, and he won't use a bottle forever....
/dear diary
Ps ... So to answer your question yes, I guess bottles are happening over here too haha
We will continue sippy use at non-nursing times...
Post by dizzycooks on Jan 31, 2015 22:30:07 GMT -5
Bottles and breast only here. I haven't even tried a sippy. I plan on pawning that off on daycare at a year. They want kids off bottles between 12 and 13 months so at a year I'll ask that they just put whatever BM I send in a sippy and they'll work with it.
Late to the party, but we are still bottles with one set of boobs over here. We offer sippy with water at meal times. He doesn't really know how to srink from it. We are on our 3 or 4 different type.
I'm slightly stressed with all of this eating solids and drinking from a sippy, but I'm trying to remind myself that just when I thought R wasn't going to learn to crawl, he did. So I'm trying to be patient with him with feeding/drinking too. A part of me wonders if we still treat him too much like a baby. We're making a dr. appt to discuss his dairy "allergy" so I was planing on asking about sippies too.
My post might be irrelevant since LO hasn't had a bottle since about 2 months old, so I apologize if it is. But I was out shopping for sippy cups that didn't leak, and got talking to a lady who was in the same isle. She said that her granddaughter only took to one sippy cup, they had tried all kinds. www.tommeetippee.ca/file_store/ca/products/21003/410x340_1.jpg Anyways, I purchased it because the top was different than any sippy cup we have, and it seems to be the easiest for LO to drink from.
Just wanted to throw this out there as a suggestion, maybe it can help those LOs who are refusing sippies.
Emma is 11 months and we use both bottles and sippy cups. (Bottles for formula, water in sippies). When she transitions to milk, we will use only sippy cups....probably. We have 3 different kids of sippies now but Emma learned how to use one with the advent pink one with a top (no leaking issue there). Other than that, the only leakage issue was when the nipple wasn't on fully. I attached pics of her sippies, and one of her eating a cookie because cute.
We're on the "bottles for milk, sippies for water" train. We tried to go cold turkey to sippies of milk and she was.not.having.it. Talked to DC about it since they've done this a zillion times, and they said transition the bottles to milk first and then into sippies (rather than formula in a sippy). So we've been working onto WCM for a month, and are down to just bedtime bottle being a mix. She's doing great with it now, so tomorrow starts operation move to sippies for milk. I anticipate hanging onto bedtime bottle for at least a couple more months, though.
@elf828 - LO1, and now LO2 have both done the bottle strike at 10-11m age where they just decide to refuse bottles and we just let it go. LO2 will take some milk from straw sippy, but no where near what she had been taking from the bottle. I'm not stressing too much since she still nurses a lot before/after work and overnight.
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