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Help...weaning is soooooooooo confusing!
Lorraine wrote: discussion title: Questions - Weaning is confusing emoticon: message #: 2176.1 from: rainee9 date: Jul-25 3:52 pm replies: 1 next discussion I am a little confused. My daughter is seven months old and I have decided to start the process of weaning. She has been exclusively breast fed since birth. Okay...this is my process so far: 1. I breast feed her when she wakes around 0630am 2.When she wakes from her nap early morning, I feed her formula from a sippy cup and feed her cereal 3. Formula again at lunch time from sippy cup and cereal/veggies/fruit 4. Around 0430pm, I breast feed her and around 0500pm cereal/veggies/fruit 5. Before bedtime, around 0700pm, I breast feed her one more time 6. She usually wakes around 0330 am wanting to breastfeed (I am trying to wean her off this feed because I think she's just doing it out of habit). She won't take a bottle, that is why I am trying the sippy cup. My question is...she only takes around 2 to 3 ounces of formula, is that enough? I am hoping once she gets better with the sippy cup I can wean her off the breast completely. Am I on the right tract? Is it too much to expect that she doesn't eat from bedtime to morning (0700pm to 0600pm)? And, what happens if she refuses to drink formula from her sippy cup at a feed, do I then go ahead and breast feed her? Help? I'm not sure why you want to wean her at 7 months old (after sticking out the hard part for 6 months, I figured life *owed* me the easy part after that.) But since you asked: 1) I don't know how much breastmilk she gets when she nurses, so it's hard to tell if she's getting enough BM+formula. Is she healthy and growing well? That's the best way to tell. 2) I think it's way too much to expect a 7-month old to sleep from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. I know some children do - but neither my formula-fed first child nor my breastfed first child did. If I understood your first post, she's sleeping about 8 hours - at 7 months, I'd bet she's not waking out of habit - she's waking out of hunger. I'd feed her. Clisby |
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Help...weaning is soooooooooo confusing!
discussion title: Questions - Weaning is confusing
emoticon: message #: 2176.1 from: rainee9 date: Jul-25 3:52 pm replies: 1 next discussion I am a little confused. My daughter is seven months old and I have decided to start the process of weaning. She has been exclusively breast fed since birth. Okay...this is my process so far: 1. I breast feed her when she wakes around 0630am 2.When she wakes from her nap early morning, I feed her formula from a sippy cup and feed her cereal 3. Formula again at lunch time from sippy cup and cereal/veggies/fruit 4. Around 0430pm, I breast feed her and around 0500pm cereal/veggies/fruit 5. Before bedtime, around 0700pm, I breast feed her one more time 6. She usually wakes around 0330 am wanting to breastfeed (I am trying to wean her off this feed because I think she's just doing it out of habit). She won't take a bottle, that is why I am trying the sippy cup. My question is...she only takes around 2 to 3 ounces of formula, is that enough? I am hoping once she gets better with the sippy cup I can wean her off the breast completely. Am I on the right tract? Is it too much to expect that she doesn't eat from bedtime to morning (0700pm to 0600pm)? And, what happens if she refuses to drink formula from her sippy cup at a feed, do I then go ahead and breast feed her? Help? |
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Help...weaning is soooooooooo confusing!
Lorraine wrote:
I am a little confused. My daughter is seven months old and I have decided to start the process of weaning. She has been exclusively breast fed since birth. Okay...this is my process so far: 1. I breast feed her when she wakes around 0630am 2.When she wakes from her nap early morning, I feed her formula from a sippy cup and feed her cereal 3. Formula again at lunch time from sippy cup and cereal/veggies/fruit 4. Around 0430pm, I breast feed her and around 0500pm cereal/veggies/fruit 5. Before bedtime, around 0700pm, I breast feed her one more time 6. She usually wakes around 0330 am wanting to breastfeed (I am trying to wean her off this feed because I think she's just doing it out of habit). She won't take a bottle, that is why I am trying the sippy cup. My question is...she only takes around 2 to 3 ounces of formula, is that enough? I am hoping once she gets better with the sippy cup I can wean her off the breast completely. Am I on the right tract? Is it too much to expect that she doesn't eat from bedtime to morning (0700pm to 0600pm)? And, what happens if she refuses to drink formula from her sippy cup at a feed, do I then go ahead and breast feed her? Help? I guess I'm not sure what your goals are. Very, very few 7 month olds (or babes under a year) can make it without any sucking at all. They are going to want to suck on something- be it a breat, bottle nipple or pacifier. |
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Help...weaning is soooooooooo confusing!
"Lorraine" wrote in message om... discussion title: Questions - Weaning is confusing emoticon: message #: 2176.1 from: rainee9 date: Jul-25 3:52 pm replies: 1 next discussion I am a little confused. My daughter is seven months old and I have decided to start the process of weaning. I think you are starting too early. Anyone I know who weaned their child at this age has weaned them to a bottle, which I've never understood, but to wean off completely, that's way too early. |
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