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Brigitte,
I am so glad to read that J & K *just* got off the bottles. A & A drink from sippies all day, but refuse to drink milk from a sippy, so they get a first thing in the morning bottle and a bedtime bottle. I was worrying that at 18 mos. old we were getting too old for bottles, but like the binky, I guess they will let me know when they are ready to give the bottle up. Megan~ Mommy to A & A 18 months old!!! www.babiesonline.com/babies/a/aidannalexis ***New Pictures 02/04*** |
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Brigitte,
I am so glad to read that J & K *just* got off the bottles. A & A drink from sippies all day, but refuse to drink milk from a sippy, so they get a first thing in the morning bottle and a bedtime bottle. I was worrying that at 18 mos. old we were getting too old for bottles, but like the binky, I guess they will let me know when they are ready to give the bottle up. Megan~ Mommy to A & A 18 months old!!! www.babiesonline.com/babies/a/aidannalexis ***New Pictures 02/04*** |
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Megan Byrne wrote:
Brigitte, I am so glad to read that J & K *just* got off the bottles. A & A drink from sippies all day, but refuse to drink milk from a sippy, so they get a first thing in the morning bottle and a bedtime bottle. I was worrying that at 18 mos. old we were getting too old for bottles, but like the binky, I guess they will let me know when they are ready to give the bottle up. I think the whole get them off by the time they are one year is a CYA by the AAP. If they are not sipping on the bloody things all day long, I can't see it being a problem. I mean, a sippy cup is just a redesigned bottle if you think about it. Also, if they are sipping milk/juice from a sippy cup all day they will still rot their teeth. Gosh, even I got a bout of sensitive teeth because I sipped at *one* ginger ale every 2nd or 3rd afternoon a few years ago. Dentist said not to sip. -- Brigitte aa #2145 http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/j/joshuaandkaterina/ http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/i/isabellazora/ "Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare." ~ Harriet Martineau |
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Megan Byrne wrote:
Brigitte, I am so glad to read that J & K *just* got off the bottles. A & A drink from sippies all day, but refuse to drink milk from a sippy, so they get a first thing in the morning bottle and a bedtime bottle. I was worrying that at 18 mos. old we were getting too old for bottles, but like the binky, I guess they will let me know when they are ready to give the bottle up. I think the whole get them off by the time they are one year is a CYA by the AAP. If they are not sipping on the bloody things all day long, I can't see it being a problem. I mean, a sippy cup is just a redesigned bottle if you think about it. Also, if they are sipping milk/juice from a sippy cup all day they will still rot their teeth. Gosh, even I got a bout of sensitive teeth because I sipped at *one* ginger ale every 2nd or 3rd afternoon a few years ago. Dentist said not to sip. -- Brigitte aa #2145 http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/j/joshuaandkaterina/ http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/i/isabellazora/ "Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare." ~ Harriet Martineau |
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Megan Byrne wrote:
Brigitte, I am so glad to read that J & K *just* got off the bottles. A & A drink from sippies all day, but refuse to drink milk from a sippy, so they get a first thing in the morning bottle and a bedtime bottle. I was worrying that at 18 mos. old we were getting too old for bottles, but like the binky, I guess they will let me know when they are ready to give the bottle up. I think the whole get them off by the time they are one year is a CYA by the AAP. If they are not sipping on the bloody things all day long, I can't see it being a problem. I mean, a sippy cup is just a redesigned bottle if you think about it. Also, if they are sipping milk/juice from a sippy cup all day they will still rot their teeth. Gosh, even I got a bout of sensitive teeth because I sipped at *one* ginger ale every 2nd or 3rd afternoon a few years ago. Dentist said not to sip. -- Brigitte aa #2145 http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/j/joshuaandkaterina/ http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/i/isabellazora/ "Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare." ~ Harriet Martineau |
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"Peggy" wrote in message news My girls are almost 2 ... snip Does anyone have any suggestions? I feel like the meanest mother on the face of the earth not giving her the bottle but if I don't do it now I'll never get her off it. See, I don't follow this. Why do you feel that if you don't do it NOW, it will never happen? Can you see how this statement is not correct? It is no more accurate than "If I don't get her potty trained NOW, she'll never get potty trained." "If I don't get her to sleep through the night NOW, she will never sleep through the night." What, never? No, never. What, never? Hardly ever! My oldest daughter breastfed until she was five. One of my twins breastfed until she was 3 1/2 and would have gone longer if I hadn't gotten pregnant. They all slept in bed with us as babies, and transitioned peacefully, gradually, and without any trauma, to the kids' room around the age of 2, more or less. None of them potty trained before 3 1/2. I didn't worry. I don't understand the urgency of NOW. Why NOW? Why not...three months from now, when she's more accepting and emotionally ready? Or six months? Or a year, as long as she only has the bottles at specific times? Is there something special about this point in her life, such as she must be weaned to a sippy cup in order to attend a certain preschool program? I can tell you that when I tried to wean my oldest, the more I refused her to nurse, the more she took up sucking her thumb. If I allowed her to nurse even once a day, the thumb-sucking vanished. I concluded that she needed to suck still, and she was going to do it one way or another. I preferred it be me. Eventually and gradually she stopped asking to nurse, and one day it was simply over. I couldn't tell you when it happened. It was too gradual and too painless. In contrast, the one who was force-weaned at 3 1/2 STILL asks me to nurse, and mourns her weaning. She cries a lot about missing being a baby. I don't know, dear. I understand you have your reasons, but I can't comprehend what is so important that it's necessary to traumatise the baby and yourself, and even risk her dehydration, to accomplish it. (Yes, I do understand that many or even most kids are off the bottle by that age. But your baby is not many or most kids. She's one individual.) --angela |
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"Peggy" wrote in message news My girls are almost 2 ... snip Does anyone have any suggestions? I feel like the meanest mother on the face of the earth not giving her the bottle but if I don't do it now I'll never get her off it. See, I don't follow this. Why do you feel that if you don't do it NOW, it will never happen? Can you see how this statement is not correct? It is no more accurate than "If I don't get her potty trained NOW, she'll never get potty trained." "If I don't get her to sleep through the night NOW, she will never sleep through the night." What, never? No, never. What, never? Hardly ever! My oldest daughter breastfed until she was five. One of my twins breastfed until she was 3 1/2 and would have gone longer if I hadn't gotten pregnant. They all slept in bed with us as babies, and transitioned peacefully, gradually, and without any trauma, to the kids' room around the age of 2, more or less. None of them potty trained before 3 1/2. I didn't worry. I don't understand the urgency of NOW. Why NOW? Why not...three months from now, when she's more accepting and emotionally ready? Or six months? Or a year, as long as she only has the bottles at specific times? Is there something special about this point in her life, such as she must be weaned to a sippy cup in order to attend a certain preschool program? I can tell you that when I tried to wean my oldest, the more I refused her to nurse, the more she took up sucking her thumb. If I allowed her to nurse even once a day, the thumb-sucking vanished. I concluded that she needed to suck still, and she was going to do it one way or another. I preferred it be me. Eventually and gradually she stopped asking to nurse, and one day it was simply over. I couldn't tell you when it happened. It was too gradual and too painless. In contrast, the one who was force-weaned at 3 1/2 STILL asks me to nurse, and mourns her weaning. She cries a lot about missing being a baby. I don't know, dear. I understand you have your reasons, but I can't comprehend what is so important that it's necessary to traumatise the baby and yourself, and even risk her dehydration, to accomplish it. (Yes, I do understand that many or even most kids are off the bottle by that age. But your baby is not many or most kids. She's one individual.) --angela |
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"Peggy" wrote in message news My girls are almost 2 ... snip Does anyone have any suggestions? I feel like the meanest mother on the face of the earth not giving her the bottle but if I don't do it now I'll never get her off it. See, I don't follow this. Why do you feel that if you don't do it NOW, it will never happen? Can you see how this statement is not correct? It is no more accurate than "If I don't get her potty trained NOW, she'll never get potty trained." "If I don't get her to sleep through the night NOW, she will never sleep through the night." What, never? No, never. What, never? Hardly ever! My oldest daughter breastfed until she was five. One of my twins breastfed until she was 3 1/2 and would have gone longer if I hadn't gotten pregnant. They all slept in bed with us as babies, and transitioned peacefully, gradually, and without any trauma, to the kids' room around the age of 2, more or less. None of them potty trained before 3 1/2. I didn't worry. I don't understand the urgency of NOW. Why NOW? Why not...three months from now, when she's more accepting and emotionally ready? Or six months? Or a year, as long as she only has the bottles at specific times? Is there something special about this point in her life, such as she must be weaned to a sippy cup in order to attend a certain preschool program? I can tell you that when I tried to wean my oldest, the more I refused her to nurse, the more she took up sucking her thumb. If I allowed her to nurse even once a day, the thumb-sucking vanished. I concluded that she needed to suck still, and she was going to do it one way or another. I preferred it be me. Eventually and gradually she stopped asking to nurse, and one day it was simply over. I couldn't tell you when it happened. It was too gradual and too painless. In contrast, the one who was force-weaned at 3 1/2 STILL asks me to nurse, and mourns her weaning. She cries a lot about missing being a baby. I don't know, dear. I understand you have your reasons, but I can't comprehend what is so important that it's necessary to traumatise the baby and yourself, and even risk her dehydration, to accomplish it. (Yes, I do understand that many or even most kids are off the bottle by that age. But your baby is not many or most kids. She's one individual.) --angela |
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Peggy,
My kids weaned off their last night-time bottle at 17 months due to an accident that my son had. He slipped and fell face first into a coffee table and caused some trauma to his front teeth. The poor thing couldn't take his bottle *and* he couldn't sip his sippy cup (the spouts were too rigid and hard), because it hurt! So I came up with the idea to snip a hole in the tip of the nipple! We did the same to my daughter's bottle too, so they would be on the same page, so to speak. Charlie was able to drink his before-bed milk in relative comfort because the flow was faster and so he didn't need to suck hard. Over the next few days as his mouth healed, we made the holes bigger and bigger. Finally, they just didn't desire the bottle anymore and switched to taking their sippies before bed. It worked out well and I don't think I would have ever thought of it had Charlie not had that accident! We were starting to feel the pressure too of getting them off bottles. I've read the other posts, and understand what Chotii means about *why* folks feel the need to do certain things within a certain time frame... But, everyone's different and this seems important to you, so maybe this will work! As you make the holes bigger, they just don't get that satisfaction of sucking. If you decide to try it, don't tell them that anything is different... be nonchalant about it. If my memory is correct, it only took about a week before they were off bottles completely. P.S. Be careful too, as if they pull the bottle away from their mouth (or if they hold the bottles themselves) it can be messy! We just had paper towels handy at all times! Anyway, good luck! Lynn (Mommy to Charlie and Jenna 8/30/00) "Peggy" wrote in message news My girls are almost 2 and I have still not successfully gotten them off the bottle and onto sippy cups. I first tried only their juice in cups, but they wouldn't really drink it and just wait for their bottles of milk. So, I just decided to take the bottles away completely and give them cups. We are now starting the third day of this and while one of my daughters is drinking from the cup no problem, my other daughter refuses. She has barely had anything to drink in two days. When I give her the cup she throws it away and cries. I'm worried she's going to get dehydrated so I'm giving her lots of fruit. I thought if she got thirsty enough she would drink from the cup. I know she's capable because I've seen her take sips before. What do I do if she still refuses to drink for the third day in a row? Do I relent and give her the bottle? I don't want to be inconsistent and I don't want to ruin my other daughter's progress by taking out the bottle again. Does anyone have any suggestions? I feel like the meanest mother on the face of the earth not giving her the bottle but if I don't do it now I'll never get her off it. Help! Peggy -- http://www.babygardengifts.com |
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Peggy,
My kids weaned off their last night-time bottle at 17 months due to an accident that my son had. He slipped and fell face first into a coffee table and caused some trauma to his front teeth. The poor thing couldn't take his bottle *and* he couldn't sip his sippy cup (the spouts were too rigid and hard), because it hurt! So I came up with the idea to snip a hole in the tip of the nipple! We did the same to my daughter's bottle too, so they would be on the same page, so to speak. Charlie was able to drink his before-bed milk in relative comfort because the flow was faster and so he didn't need to suck hard. Over the next few days as his mouth healed, we made the holes bigger and bigger. Finally, they just didn't desire the bottle anymore and switched to taking their sippies before bed. It worked out well and I don't think I would have ever thought of it had Charlie not had that accident! We were starting to feel the pressure too of getting them off bottles. I've read the other posts, and understand what Chotii means about *why* folks feel the need to do certain things within a certain time frame... But, everyone's different and this seems important to you, so maybe this will work! As you make the holes bigger, they just don't get that satisfaction of sucking. If you decide to try it, don't tell them that anything is different... be nonchalant about it. If my memory is correct, it only took about a week before they were off bottles completely. P.S. Be careful too, as if they pull the bottle away from their mouth (or if they hold the bottles themselves) it can be messy! We just had paper towels handy at all times! Anyway, good luck! Lynn (Mommy to Charlie and Jenna 8/30/00) "Peggy" wrote in message news My girls are almost 2 and I have still not successfully gotten them off the bottle and onto sippy cups. I first tried only their juice in cups, but they wouldn't really drink it and just wait for their bottles of milk. So, I just decided to take the bottles away completely and give them cups. We are now starting the third day of this and while one of my daughters is drinking from the cup no problem, my other daughter refuses. She has barely had anything to drink in two days. When I give her the cup she throws it away and cries. I'm worried she's going to get dehydrated so I'm giving her lots of fruit. I thought if she got thirsty enough she would drink from the cup. I know she's capable because I've seen her take sips before. What do I do if she still refuses to drink for the third day in a row? Do I relent and give her the bottle? I don't want to be inconsistent and I don't want to ruin my other daughter's progress by taking out the bottle again. Does anyone have any suggestions? I feel like the meanest mother on the face of the earth not giving her the bottle but if I don't do it now I'll never get her off it. Help! Peggy -- http://www.babygardengifts.com |
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