Comments on: Mommy Confessions: Bottle Weaning

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:11:53 +0000

Thanks Stacey!

By: Stacey

Stacey — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:20:32 +0000

Thanks for the encouragement Nick. Love your site! Great resource for recipes and info on weaning!

By: baby food recipes

baby food recipes — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:50:20 +0000

As a parent of two lovely daughters myself I can understand the worry this may cause you but as a reader it doesn’t worry me. Our youngest daughter was very similar. What helped weaning her off the milk she loved so much was slowly giving her less in the bottle (so she doesn’t notice) and making the formula weaker and weaker again so she doesn’t notice. Coupling this with the baby led weaning technique and she was eating solids in no time !

All the best x

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I love being manipulated! - Stacey says… — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:03:07 +0000

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By: Stacey

Stacey — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:07:25 +0000

Thanks for the thoughts ladies! I think I worry more about it because Tim worries about it.

By: amanda

amanda — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:32:09 +0000

Why do we beat ourselves up….she will not be taking the bottle in high school even though some days you probably think she will. Good luck..I am in the opposite boat I would love to continue nursing Korra, but I am going away for a weekend and I think it is probably time to be done, but I am all so sad about it…

By: jodi

jodi — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:32:08 +0000

Ok. So. Two different stories for me. Both kids were breast-fed but after Jessica quit on her own at 9 mo (she was the easy one) we gave her formula in a bottle because she was underweight. Long story there, but … she LOVED the bottle. I don’t remember how exactly we went about weaning her off it – but I remember she was about 18 months … and I think I just make it with more water every time until finally she was just drinking water. The hard part for her was giving up the actual bottle, not the formula. She wanted to suck on that thing FOREVER. So I let her. I didn’t much care, she didn’t have a binky anymore so I figured she could have her bottle with water.

Oliver … was breastfed and not sleeping through the night until he was weaned, which was 9ish – almost 10 months old. And that all came about when we made a plan to go shopping for an entire day and I had no more pumped milk in the freezer. Aaron was on board to making it work however it needed to because he was good and ready to have the kid weaned so we could all sleep better. It was hard, but in one day he was weaned and I was hurting. He didn’t get a bottle or formula after that – straight to a sippy with water … and he drank SO much water. I was worried for a while but it’s tapered off.

I read tips like it was my job when I was trying to wean Oliver, unsuccessfully, on my own. I had this fairy tale about how I wanted him to dictate when he stopped, since Jessica did. I wanted to nurse him atleast a year, hopefully longer if he wanted to. Bla bla bla, but the reality of our situation was that it was hurting the quality of OUR life, and weaning him would not hurt the quality of HIS life. Infact sleeping through the night improved his health at that age … so. I don’t know. I think weighing your options and making the best decision for you and your family is really the important thing here. Even if that means she still gets a bottle when she’s in preschool … I doubt she’ll still want one at 16 – but I think it’s perfectly ok to still get a comfort like that at an older age. My kids have blankets and I’ll never take those away. But it could have just as easily been a bottle instead.