DS woke up every hour and a half last night. By the time it was 6am he sounded pretty congested so I did some saline spray, but he popped up at 720 like he didn't have a bad night at all. Wtf baby.
LO is messing with us when it comes to weaning off a bottle. She used to love drinking water from her sippy so I thought it'd be no big deal. Once we started putting milk in them she won't drink from anything until we break down and bring out the bottle again. Ugh, I thought we were finally done with bottles. PS: It's not the switch to milk from formula bc she downs the milk from her bottle. What do I do to wean the bottle? DD1 didn't have this issue...
LO is messing with us when it comes to weaning off a bottle. She used to love drinking water from her sippy so I thought it'd be no big deal. Once we started putting milk in them she won't drink from anything until we break down and bring out the bottle again. Ugh, I thought we were finally done with bottles. PS: It's not the switch to milk from formula bc she downs the milk from her bottle. What do I do to wean the bottle? DD1 didn't have this issue...
No first hand experience, but I've heard of kids getting attached to the idea that X liquid comes in Y container, and so they don't like when Y container has a different liquid. Can you try an open cup or a different sippy?
Post by cougarette on Feb 11, 2016 10:15:05 GMT -5
I'm having a similar, yet backwards, problem, dreemkin.
DS has not taken a single bottle all week at daycare. He stopped taking bottles at home, but I figured whatever since he still nurses great. Well now he's stopped at daycare too. It'd be great if he's self-weaning, however, he's no longer drinking from a cup either. He's done it before, but he pushes it away when we try to give it to him.
I even took him to the dr this morning to make sure he didn't have an ear infection, even though he doesn't have any other symptoms. Luckily no infection, but I'm still worried. The dr said that his hydration is still good and to try and see if he'll drink water (which is what we've been putting in the cups). Oh and of course I forgot his cup at home. Gah, I don't know what to do!
DS woke up every hour and a half last night. By the time it was 6am he sounded pretty congested so I did some saline spray, but he popped up at 720 like he didn't have a bad night at all. Wtf baby.
That's rough. Over the weekend N kept getting up and it was really hard to get him back down. Then he just slowly got back to his normal night routine. He's sounded stuffy the last few days, but nothing too bad. These kids.
Post by seamonster on Feb 11, 2016 10:24:58 GMT -5
No idea how to wean from a bottle to a cup. DS likes his water from a cup, but also likes to take a few sips and then throw the cup. The few times we tried formula in a cup to try to get him used to it, he'd spit out the formula. So I just stuck with bottles for milk and cup for water. I'm hoping the intervening months will get him to drink milk from the cup.
Post by dmorgendorffer on Feb 11, 2016 10:42:35 GMT -5
lilyelayne sorry about the rough night, hope you get good naps today!
IL's are coming this weekend and I have been racking (wracking?) my brain to come up with something special we can do with them to sort of celebrate DD's birthday while they are here. The fact that it is supposed to be bitterly cold here this weekend doesn't help (high of 17, low of -2 on Saturday!). We don't even have music class this weekend so literally nothing out of the house planned. FIL can be pretty annoying when he is stuck inside our house for too long.
I'm so done with work today and I haven't been here two hours yet.
V had an odd night last night. He kept crying out intermittently throughout the night but didn't actually wake up more than usual. Do babies this young have nightmares? He probably just had a restless night.
I'm so done with work today and I haven't been here two hours yet.
V had an odd night last night. He kept crying out intermittently throughout the night but didn't actually wake up more than usual. Do babies this young have nightmares? He probably just had a restless night.
Yes they can! It's usually one of the signs of a development leap.
Post by dmorgendorffer on Feb 11, 2016 11:46:45 GMT -5
In an effort to get my pumping output up today I have been chugging a bunch of water all morning. I still didn't pump enough, and I've been needing to pee about every 20 minutes. Flashbacks to a year ago.
lilyelayne sorry about the rough night, hope you get good naps today!
IL's are coming this weekend and I have been racking (wracking?) my brain to come up with something special we can do with them to sort of celebrate DD's birthday while they are here. The fact that it is supposed to be bitterly cold here this weekend doesn't help (high of 17, low of -2 on Saturday!). We don't even have music class this weekend so literally nothing out of the house planned. FIL can be pretty annoying when he is stuck inside our house for too long.
Do you have a children's museum? Or mall with play area/train/carousel?
I've tried like every sippy cup and liquid combo possible. She's getting all confused I think. My new plan: I'm going to try to find more bottle-like sippys the next time I'm at the store and stick with one kind to get her used to them easier. I hope that works. Easy does it, with "this one" (her frequent nn because she's so different from her big sis).
lilyelayne, I know exactly how that feels. Hugs for the rough night!
Sorry about your problems with cup/bottles dreemkin and cougarette. I don't have any good advise other than keep trying, but I guess you're tired of hearing that...
Today my boss brought his 3 week old son into work for a quick visit. Cue cute baby "awwww's". I can't believe our babies where once that small. It really hit me how much she has grown in a year.
I've tried like every sippy cup and liquid combo possible. She's getting all confused I think. My new plan: I'm going to try to find more bottle-like sippys the next time I'm at the store and stick with one kind to get her used to them easier. I hope that works. Easy does it, with "this one" (her frequent nn because she's so different from her big sis).
We have the nuby grow with me cup. It has removable handles and 2 nipples. One is a bottle nipple and one is a sippy cup nipple. She wouldn't drink formula or water out of it but she has been drinking milk out of it the last 2 days.
I've tried like every sippy cup and liquid combo possible. She's getting all confused I think. My new plan: I'm going to try to find more bottle-like sippys the next time I'm at the store and stick with one kind to get her used to them easier. I hope that works. Easy does it, with "this one" (her frequent nn because she's so different from her big sis).
We have the nuby grow with me cup. It has removable handles and 2 nipples. One is a bottle nipple and one is a sippy cup nipple. She wouldn't drink formula or water out of it but she has been drinking milk out of it the last 2 days.
ETA we use the bottle nipple without the handles.
Ahh yes! I was trying to think of the brand but this was going to be my suggestion. We had 2 but we tossed them as they were well worn handme downs and I couldn't remember the brand.
I'm so done with work today and I haven't been here two hours yet.
V had an odd night last night. He kept crying out intermittently throughout the night but didn't actually wake up more than usual. Do babies this young have nightmares? He probably just had a restless night.
That has been my week. I have turned off the monitor, I figured I could hear her without it if she really needs me. Like cougarette mentioned, when DD does this it seems to be a developmental thing.
Post by lilyelayne on Feb 11, 2016 20:35:12 GMT -5
cougarette hopefully it's just a phase & N will go back to drinking out of cups (and maybe bottles too?)
DS took a three hour nap today! Last night must've worn him out too. He's definitely snotty so I guess he picked up some virus somewhere. Hope it's gone in a few days cause I don't want to fly to California with a sick baby next week.
LO seems to be moving down to 1 nap. She was a rough napper on the weekend then at daycare they have only been putting her down for 1 based on her level of tiredness, without me saying anything. We'll see how this goes.
LO is messing with us when it comes to weaning off a bottle. She used to love drinking water from her sippy so I thought it'd be no big deal. Once we started putting milk in them she won't drink from anything until we break down and bring out the bottle again. Ugh, I thought we were finally done with bottles. PS: It's not the switch to milk from formula bc she downs the milk from her bottle. What do I do to wean the bottle? DD1 didn't have this issue...
No first hand experience, but I've heard of kids getting attached to the idea that X liquid comes in Y container, and so they don't like when Y container has a different liquid. Can you try an open cup or a different sippy?
Yes! B definitely has certain liquids she will drink from different vessels. Nothing, and I mean nothing belongs in her bottles other than formula. Only water belongs in the sippy. Everything belongs in mommas glass, and she will drink all of this. Just don't change it up or it gets thrown/refused.
LO is messing with us when it comes to weaning off a bottle. She used to love drinking water from her sippy so I thought it'd be no big deal. Once we started putting milk in them she won't drink from anything until we break down and bring out the bottle again. Ugh, I thought we were finally done with bottles. PS: It's not the switch to milk from formula bc she downs the milk from her bottle. What do I do to wean the bottle? DD1 didn't have this issue...
We did cold turkey but, DS has a milk sippy cup and a water sippy cup. They are different brands and different styles. Worked for us. We had to keep giving him a bottle before bed for a while before we were 100% sippy cup. I kept filling him up with milk and water before we went upstairs for bed and eventually he got over his nighttime bottle.
Should have kept reading.... We went through a ton of sippy cup styles too. He was finally okay with tommee tippee 9 month cups because the mouth piece is soft. We were going through a massive teething period and anything that was extremely hard plastic was a no go. Good luck!
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