Post by btbergstrom on Jan 26, 2015 21:59:20 GMT -5
Hi all...I'm hanging around here but haven't been really active yet. The board seems to be movin really fast and I'm having a hard time keeping up but I thought I would start a thread about weaning since some might be thinking about this soon. My lo has dropped her oz at daycare from 15 down to 11. That is three bottles for her. I am considering dropping her middle bottle at lunch since it is only 3oz. I have been havin a hard time pumping enough as well to meet her needs. It seems that after winter break my production has really decreased and the only thing I can think that caused it was that she wasn't needing to nurse that much so my supply dropped. My goal is to make the switch over to cows milk at a year and to ditch bottles. She takes a wow cup, and sippys and straw cups really well for water so I'm hoping this won't be hard. If you have experience with weaning how did you do it. Was it gradual over the last month (11)? Did you just make the change to cows milk at a year and just stop bf cold turkey? I guess I just don't know how I'm going to do this or what the process is.
Also wondering. I have given LO a bit of milk in his sippy cup a few times but he doesn't seem to like it so I am not sure how weaning to cows milk will go. Maybe I will just keep breast feeding and pump when I go back to work.
We already ditched bottles in favor of straw cups. Still pumping and using freezer stash. I think in a couple of weeks we will start introducing little WCM in each cup. He's still taking a lot of milk during the day: 6am nursing, 9am 3.5oz but slowly decreasing that, 1130 and 330 5.5oz. He eats 3 meals on top and nurses again before bed. I plan to continue nursing as long as he wants but I think soon the morning milk in cul is going away!
Following too. Very curious what others have for advice!
My pedi recommended at about 11.5 months to try and start topping off bm bottles with wcm, then transition towards all wcm.
How did you drop her oz at daycare? Did she just start drinking less? I still send 15 oz (3 bottles) but am having a hard time pumping to keep up. She loves food, so I'm wondering if it would be ok to just start sending smaller bottles.
Post by yankeepeach on Jan 27, 2015 6:27:20 GMT -5
If you are starting to come up short I would give her a bottle/sippy of cows milk over the weekend at home and see how she does. In Canada they recommend anytime between 9-12 months.
When I was pumping BFing DS1 I started by cutting back pumping sessions at work. I had a freezer stash though. I usually pumped 3x/day and cut back to 2x/day for a week. Then the next week cut back to 2x/day, the following week 1x/day and then stopped. I still nursed morning and bedtime during the week and on weekends, but during the day on weekend switched to bottles instead of nursing.
I started to wean from the pump at 11 months and was done by 12. The freezer stash was gone a few weeks after his first birthday and we just switched to cows milk cold turkey, he didn't even seem to notice.
I continued with the morning and bedtime nursing until he was 14 months.
If i were you and she did fine with the WCM at home, I would just start making up what you are short in BM with WCM, either straight up or half and half. every few days just start adding in another serving of WCM and eliminate a BM bottle.
Post by bennieangel on Jan 27, 2015 10:52:16 GMT -5
Can someone tell me how this looks when they are a year? T still takes 3 bottles a day & 2 sippy cups of BM, I assume the BM sippy will just become WCM, but what about the bottles? He doesn't eat enough to not get them....is he just magically going to start eating a lot more solids in the next 2 months? (10 months today)
@benieangel, not magically, but from what I see with M, he's deft eating a lot more solids now than 2 months ago. And slightly decreasing his ounces of milk. He's still a 5x/day nursing/sippy cup with BM but we think he's about to drop his 9am bottle.
Post by RandomName on Jan 27, 2015 11:50:09 GMT -5
I agree, not overnight but they will start eating more and more. DD eats way more now than she did even 1 month ago. When she started refusing to be spoon fed is when I noticed the huge jump - just wants to do it all on her own! Recently with the extra food she's naturally starting to cut back on her bottles. She used to have 4 7 oz bottles a day. She now drink about 15-18 oz a day and eats like a teenage boy. Also we feed her until she shows she's done.
I agree, not overnight but they will start eating more and more. DD eats way more now than she did even 1 month ago. When she started refusing to be spoon fed is when I noticed the huge jump - just wants to do it all on her own! Recently with the extra food she's naturally starting to cut back on her bottles. She used to have 4 7 oz bottles a day. She now drink about 15-18 oz a day and eats like a teenage boy. Also we feed her until she shows she's done.
OK! So we're about a month behind you & I'm noticing this starting (lots of finger foods consumed) but I have a hard time telling when he's done vs. when he's just sick of eating what's on his tray. Tips?
When the amount of food being dropped on the floor is more than what's going in DDs mouth, she's done eating. She also starts turning around more and looking for other more interesting things to be doing.
I agree, not overnight but they will start eating more and more. DD eats way more now than she did even 1 month ago. When she started refusing to be spoon fed is when I noticed the huge jump - just wants to do it all on her own! Recently with the extra food she's naturally starting to cut back on her bottles. She used to have 4 7 oz bottles a day. She now drink about 15-18 oz a day and eats like a teenage boy. Also we feed her until she shows she's done.
OK! So we're about a month behind you & I'm noticing this starting (lots of finger foods consumed) but I have a hard time telling when he's done vs. when he's just sick of eating what's on his tray. Tips?
We struggled with that too. She would seem done - toss the food off the tray, feed the dog. One day we tried offering a 'dessert' to check if she is full. Dessert is another kind of meal/snack for us that she loves. I can mostly tell the difference between bored and full now (sometimes we still do this). For example, we offer the main food - chicken, rice and hummus. Once she seems down with that we offer something else light like yogurt and fruit or cheese. She loves these things so when she's done with this she's really done. Not sure if it's the 'right' way but it works for us.
Re: if she's done eating like pp she starts throwing food everywhere. Then I usually offer some fruit for "dessert" and if she's still hungry she eats that and will go back to dinner that has been left on her tray lol. If she's full she'll just throw it.
Also, FTR weaning has me freaked out too. What? It's done?
bennieangel, he starts throwing food on the ground or gets very distracted. I don't worry so much about when he's full bc he's always amenable to go back to playing and he nurses before bed until he's good and full. Or gets 5oz in cup if I'm not home.
With DD1, I started mixing WCM into one bottle at daycare around 11 months. After a week of no tummy troubles, we started mixing all daycare bottles 25% WCM + 75% BM. One week later, increased to 50/50 mix, then 75%. I think if it was in a bottle, it was warmed, but in sippy was cold.
At home I still nursed, and she was fine going back and forth between WCM (in mainly sippy cups) and nursing.
Post by g33kyg1rly on Jan 27, 2015 20:42:09 GMT -5
On the sheet our pedi gave us about solids at her 4m appt, it said not to give them WCM as a drink until after a year old, and that we would discuss how to switch at her 12m appointment, so looks like we'll be on 100% formula (with a little water) until 12m.
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