Weaning from a bottle to sippy cup?
My daughter is 7 1/2 months old and I have been giving her diluted juice and water in a sippy cup since she was 5 months old. I have not started giving her formula in a sippy cup yet but about a month ago we were out shopping and she was hungry and crying for a bottle and I had formula but had forgotten to bring a bottle. I had a sippy cup with us so I put her formula in the sippy and she drank it fine. I use a sippy with a soft silicone spout that is as soft as a bottle nipple but shaped like a sippy cup spout. It is a transition cup and she took to it right away since it uses the same sucking mechanism as a bottle. The kind I use for her are made by Munchkin and they are really cheap but are good quality, last a long time, and work great. They cost about $2.50 per cup or $4.75 for a 2 pack. Nuby also makes a soft spout sippy cup but for some reason my daughter does not like those. Playtex also makes a semi soft spout sippy cup that is like a stage 2 sippy cup and my daughter likes those too. You might have to try several different types of sippy cups before you find one she likes. I wouldn't rush it if I were you. She is still really young and bottles are still fine for her. Just continue to offer her water and diluted juice from the sippy cup and maybe just try one formula feed per day from the sippy cup till she gets more used to it.
What is the best way to wean my 18 month old from the bottle?
I am so glad I didn't have a mother that had the attitude of the person that posted "just let her cry, she can't cry forever." How mean and cruel is that? Even the answer she gave was snotty and rude. Anyway, the watering down method works. Over the course of a month, each evening and naptime when you make the milk bottle, start watering it down. Week one, 6 oz milk and 2 oz water, Week two, half and half, Week three, 2 oz milk and 6 oz water, and so on. Have the sippy cup there with regular milk in it and she will come to realize the good stuff is in the cup, not the bottle. And you don't even need to be rigid about it...if you want to take two weeks for each step in the watering down process that is fine too. You sound like a good mom...don't let mean people get you down. Your daughter will be done with the bottle when she is ready and all will be fine. Don't worry about it.
Advice on weaning puppies?
I'm hand rearing two rescued puppies. They will be 3 weeks old on Thursday. I'm planning to start weaning them on sunday (they will be 24 days old). We feel they are medium sized dogs, their mother was a small terrier and daddy is possibly a boxer cross. They are on Royal Canin baby dog milk and are on 60mls every 6 hours (the box says to feed them 4 times a day). I have people to help me and teach me about weaning them, but I would like some more advice. They will be going on to Royal Canin puppy moose. I want to know as much as possible like how much moose should I feed them, how much milk to put into the moose, how often to feed them moose, how many bottles and how much milk do they need on the days they have the moose also, when do I phase out the bottles, how long should I have them on moose and milk mixture before they go on to just moose, and how long untill I start putting the baby dog nuts into the moose and how much nuts to use, how long should this process take, do I leave the moose with them even on the first few days they are on it, can I stop stimulating them to poop when they are on the moose? Most of these things I can find out from people at the rescue, but I want to make sure I cover everything. I really want to know as much as possible. I did look online and most of the things I found were about puppies who have mothers etc. Thanks in advance.
When do most people wean their babies from the bottle?
My 5th baby just turned a year old in September and at her 1 year WCC her doctor was totally shocked that she no longer has a bottle at all. I thought her response was kind of odd since all of my children have been completely weaned from breast or bottle by 14 months old and I also thought it was recommended to Wean from a bottle by 1 year. Am I the odd one for having her weaned by a year old? When did you wean your child from the bottle? Just curious thanks! Proud momma to 5
What is the best advice you've gotten on Yahoo! Answers Newborn and Baby?
I haven't really asked too many questions, but I love answering them(my husband says Y!A is my cocaine). I think the best advice I got was on how to get my son to take a bottle. I had tried every possible nipple, Daddy tried feeding him, I tried feeding him, but no way. With him it's give the real deal. Anyway the advice I was given was to have a completely separate person feed him, and leave the house as he was being fed. Well this past Saturday, we went for a visit to Nana's, so she gave him a bottle and I left the house. Nana said he fussed for 5 minutes then drank the whole bottle.
Mother in law - unsolicited advice on breastfeeding, weaning and just about everything else.?
How do I get my mother in law to back off and allow my husband and I to raise our son the way we see fit without upsetting her? I have tried the nod and smile politely and just carry on approach but that isn't working as she just becomes more persistent when she sees I haven't followed her advice. I have also asked her to stop treating my husband and I as though were still children ourselves but I was laughed at. I am getting a little disheartened and I'm trying to not let it affect my confidence but it inevitably does. Whats more, when I research the advice given and check with my Health Visitor the advice she has given me is generally out of date or incorrect and sometimes detrimental to the well being of my son and I. For example: Telling me to give my son farex baby rice in a bottle before bed to get him to sleep through the night. (He is only 6 weeks old and you should never add anything to a bottle other than milk as it is choking hazard. And I'm not keen on forcing him to sleep through the night before he's ready) She told me that I wouldn't lose weight until I stopped breastfeeding but H/V told me I burn 500 calories a day when breastfeeding. She says that is nonsense. She said it was okay to give half a teaspoon of whiskey in baby's milk to get them off to sleep. OMG! She also told me to make up all formula feeds for the day in the morning and store them in the fridge until required. I could almost forgive her for giving out wrong advice if it weren't for the fact she is so adamant she is always right and gets quite defensive and rude when I politely tell her that things have changed in the last 30 years. What can I do as it's affecting my sanity and my marriage.
Weaning: what is the gentlest way to wean a 3 1/2 year old who loves and is very adamant about nursing (already limited to bedtime nursing)?
Mother's milk is best and very good for overall growth and development of kid,that the maximum a kid is on breast milk ,the better are its results for overall development.But,there comes a certain age that both mother and child has to understand and let go off the breast feeding pattern for welfare if kid and mother .So its painful experience, but a healthy development of other food habits.For weaning a 3 1/2 year old kid ,its diet should be changed and increased to solid food with differt types of colorful, shapes and texture food items that appeal all senses like smell,seeing,taste,touch,feel in exploring various forms of food leads to kids attraction toward it and decrease in breast feeding.Slow mother should become strict and say no to breast feeding ,and keep a reward syatem for eating food and leaving breast feeding.Provide kids favourite toys,books,chocolate, and keep a condition to eat food and they get it.Rest you can increase other milk and milk products and make variety of it like shakes,curd,so on.I have download http://goo.gl/FqUske for more knowledge download app parentlane.C
My 2 year old still takes a bottle before bedtime and when he wakes up in the morning. He will freak out if he doesn't get his 2 daily bottles of milk. Anyone out there have any advice to wean him off the Baba?
Buy him a tippy cup and say to him we are a big boy now we drink out of cups. Yes he will cry and freak out for a few days or a week but after he will like it. DON'T GIVE IN to his wanting his bottle give him his tippy cup with a little milk in it and put the lidn it show him how to drink from it. Baby bottles if he is sleeping with one can rot his teeth from acids that are created when plaque bacteria breaks down sugar in your mouth. I have seen young children at age two and a half with rotten teeth and had to get them pulled out not fun for child or the dentist you must put the child to sleep to get them pulled out and the bill is something else too believe me it really cuts into your pocket book. My friend is still paying off their bill for two children the cost for a tooth extraction varies widely dépending on whether the tooth is impacted. $90 to $150 per tooth and maybe more dépending on the type of anesthesia you need. The cost to remove impacted teeth are significatly higher and can land anywhere between $75 to $200 per tooth in adults cost $800 to 4,000 it adds up.