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Reason for weaning from bottle at 1 yo?
Truffles wrote in message ...
Sue wrote: dejablues wrote: Because, like toilet-training, there is a window of opportunity in which a child is more amenable to change. Truffles wrote in message ????? I don't understand the connection? What don't you get? You don't understand the window of opportunity? If you don't understand, then there are certain ages and stages that children go through that they are more willing to have something changed. Like introducing solids, weaning from the breast, potty training, introducing a sippy cup. There are certain times in babies when something can be changed and it is much easier to do rather than waiting later. I've never potty trained a child before. I was under the assumption it wasn't about windows of opportunity but about the child being ready for the change. That is why I couldn't see the connection between potty training and taking away a bottle. I think the windows of opportunity are variable and depend more on the particular child's development than a calendar. Like everything else that they give you charts and approximate ages for, individual children don't necessarily fit into the mold. Some children are talking clearly at 18 months; others not until 3 -- and they are all normal. Same with walking, talking, cutting teeth, toilet training, and anything else you can think of. For a child who has good/early fine motor skills and is already eating quite a bit of table food by a year, maybe weaning off the bottle is appropriate at that time. Other children may still be almost exclusively breastfeeding or bottle feeding at the same age. Deciding that *they* need a cup at that time might not be so good for that particular child's developmental timetable. I think it's good to note the general "guidelines" and then see if they seem appropriate for your own child. Some folks also have strong personal preferences for certain things, like no pacifiers and whatnot, and others take a more laissez faire approach. In the long run, I doubt that it makes a great deal of difference. Lynne an arbitrary age |
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Reason for weaning from bottle at 1 yo?
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 05:55:46 -0700, "Sue"
wrote: Yeah, what's funny about that is I don't have a dishwasher either. I figured I was the only one living in the dark ages ;o) LOL! Okay... We live in a rented house. No dishwasher was here when we moved in. No place to put a dishwasher as the kitchen is REALLY, REALLY small. Handwashing is for the birds. Yep, there are heaps of us living in the dark ages! -- ==Daye== E-mail: brendana AT labyrinth DOT net DOT au |
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Reason for weaning from bottle at 1 yo?
Handwashing is for the birds. Yep, there
I've never had a dishwasher. (That's actually not true. THe apartment I lived in for a couple of years had one, but it was so old and crappy that you had to literally prewash the dishes before you put them in it, so it wasn't worth the effort to even use it.) While I'll admit that I do tend to let the dishes pile up, it's more a matter of not liking to do housework in general than any particular dislike of washing dishes. I really don't mind washing them. (I'd much rather wash dishes than vacuum the floor or wash the windows or clean up cat puke or ... sigh.... pick up the ceiling that is all over the living room floor right now. [DH decided to replace part of the roof yesterday. After he removed it, he quit for the day. Then it started to rain. Hard. Part of the ceiling is now on the floor. What fun. [ANd yes, we were both up most of the night last night trying to protect the furniture and book shevles and everything else from the rain pouring in.]]]) Naomi CAPPA Certified Lactation Educator (either remove spamblock or change address to to e-mail reply.) |
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Reason for weaning from bottle at 1 yo?
It isn't necessary to wean off of bottles to sippy cups (with valves).
I have weaned two of my children and am in the process of weaning my 9 month old over to what I call "drippy cups." These cups just have a smaller opening. I think they require a bit more fine motor control, but that isn't a bad thing. From there, more conservative experts suggest switching to an open cup at 18 months. Karen |
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Reason for weaning from bottle at 1 yo?
So if the child is breastfed, and still nursing at say 16 months, it makes
sense that while their mom is at work the baby will still want its milk from a bottle, as the baby is not weaning. Except that a nursing toddler is MUCH less likely to develop any emotional attachment to a bottle, and his/her mother is more likely to have stopped offering a bottle. The only bottle-toting toddlers I've ever known or heard of are those who *did* wean from the breast early or were switched to formula before 1 year. The ones who are still breastfeeding at 16 months generally aren't using bottles, because Mom has stopped pumping! That was certainly the case for mine, anyway -- we never put anything other than breastmilk in the bottles (and ebm was provided only in bottles). I stopped pumping when DS was barely 13 months old (after a long, gradual process of reducing the amount of ebm he got during the day) and he never had another bottle. Didn't upset him in the slightest, and he was *not* drinking cows' milk at the time either. He shares his nanny with a FF girl -- same age, still getting some bottles (though I don't know if they're formula or cows' milk). Now every time he sees a bottle he identifies it as belonging to or being like those belonging to his friend. Holly Mom to Camden, 2 yrs |
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Reason for weaning from bottle at 1 yo?
Truffles wrote in message ...
Actually, I do have a dishwasher but I don't like to put the bottles, rings, and nipples in it. I find the bottles don't work as well after they've been in there. I also found the nipples deteriorate quicker. As for sippy cups in the dishwasher, maybe it's the type I have but I find they just don't get as clean as if I hand wash them. And with all the nooks and crannies of the valves and lids to the sippy cups, I find rinse water pooled in them. Yuck. Yeah, we have the avent bottles and sippy cups, and the valves are MUCH harder to get clean than the nipples. The nipples just go in the top of the bottle basket. The valves, which work GREAT, have to be taken apart to get clean. The valve must be removed from the spout, and the valve itself should be taken apart (hard plastic disk and silicon layer come apart) to get clean. I've not had trouble getting either to work after being in dishwasher, so I've got no complaints. Cathy Weeks Mommy to Kivi Alexis 12/01 |
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Reason for weaning from bottle at 1 yo?
HollyLewis wrote:
So if the child is breastfed, and still nursing at say 16 months, it makes sense that while their mom is at work the baby will still want its milk from a bottle, as the baby is not weaning. Except that a nursing toddler is MUCH less likely to develop any emotional attachment to a bottle, and his/her mother is more likely to have stopped offering a bottle. The only bottle-toting toddlers I've ever known or heard of are those who *did* wean from the breast early or were switched to formula before 1 year. Mine have cow's milk in their bottles, they nursed a little past one year, but they have no emotional attachment to their bottles because they don't cart them around. They sit, drink, and then hand them to me when done. So, I think it is possible to have weaned early and still not develop an attachment to bottles. -- Brigitte aa #2145 edd #3 February 15, 2004 http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/j/joshuaandkaterina/ "Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare." ~ Harriet Martineau |
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Reason for weaning from bottle at 1 yo?
So, I think it is possible to have weaned early and still
not develop an attachment to bottles. Oh, I didn't mean to imply otherwise. I said that all the bottle-toting toddlers I've known have weaned or been weaned early, not that all early weaners become bottle-toting toddlers. :-) Holly Mom to Camden, 2 yrs |
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