My daughter will be turning one soon and I want to wean her off and start fresh milk. The problem
is she doesn’t take a bottle so I’m really worried as to how to get her off of nursing. She drinks water from
a straw sippy cup and I did try to give her some milk in a sippy cup but she’ll only take in an ounce in one hour!
My husband has tried giving her a bottle multiple times but she thinks of it as a joke and eventually gets annoyed and calls out for me.
Should I just focus on the sippy cup or start a bottle at one?! I know the paeds say to stop the bottle at one but I really want to stop nursing and want her to start fresh milk.
Can veteran moms please give me some tips as to how they weaned?
I’m not a mommy, but my sister just weaned her 1 year-old and she went cold turkey. No mixed messages to her kid is her philosophy - no breast milk, means no breast milk. One day to the next, she stopped nursing completely.
Her son would ask for her milk, but she wouldn’t give in to him. He doesn’t like fresh milk, but she’s persistent in giving it to him, via sippy cup and waterbottle (so with the straw). Even if he doesn’t take a lot of milk, she gives him cheese and yogurt so that he gets his share of dairy.
And given this is her fourth child m’A and she’s done the same with all of them, I think it works pretty well for her.
Same here…I had to go cold turkey! My eldest was 14 months old. He had never had formula, bottle, pacifier..anything. I had to stop nursing because I was going into my second try at IVF, (and I had been trying unsuccesfully to wean him from 12 months)..going cold turkey was the only thing that worked. We just kept handing him a sippy cup with regular milk…during the days he was fine, but it was the bedtime/night nursing when he put up a fight. After the third night, he was fine.
We just went cold turkey with my son from formula to cows milk and boy as he constipated DOr what..he cried with every poop and was passing out jar d stool with tears in his eyes.. We reversed it..now we are transitioning him into cows milk while decreasing the formula.. Two bottles formula, 1 bottle cows milk (half milk, half water-we buy the milk from local form so no preservatives, additives, hormones etc) and this is working out much better!
I know it’s not exactly what you asked for but just wanted to let you know that cold turkey didn’t work for us… May be you can give her milk in zippy up during the day but feed at night time.. Let the milk supply drop so she will have no choice but to let it go!
Ugh I was avoiding going cold turkey because I know that will lead to a lot of crying. But most people I spoke to did go cold turkey.
Sehrysh and Khatti - Were they drinking an adequate amount from the sippy before they were weaned? I don’t want her to miss out on milk. I guess I’ll stick to the sippy and skip bottles completely since she really hates the silicon texture of the bottles.
GTG: I think gradual weaning is better for bottle fed babies or even babies who do take a bottle every now and then. With nursing, I’ve heard even if you nurse just once or twice a day, they’ll stay attached to it coz it’s comforting for them. I’m just really stressed out coz I’m exhausted and need to wean her off and it’s proving to be quite a challenge.
No, he wasn’t drinking enough through the sippy cup. It’s about 3 weeks since my sister has weaned him and what she’s noticed is that his appetite has gone up quite a bit. In addition to his 3 meals a day, he’s snacking more between meals and she makes sure he’s got a full tummy at night before he goes to bed, so he doesn’t wake up.
His milk consumption has gone down, but like I said she’s trying to get him to make up for it with other dairy products - cheese and yogurt, she’ll even try to entice him with chocolate milk or strawberry-flavoured milk. The one key is to make sure to give the baby milk throughout the day. They may only take an ounce at a time, but don’t give in to them NOT wanting milk - drinking milk needs to be a habit.
Your children were fine?if not taking milk for whole day?..my baby is 10months n i’m still bfeeding exclusively…no bottle…i hope he’ll accept the transition easily at 12months…
Omg I actually have this concern as well: she hasn’t been eating well recently. She has been teething and wants to nurse for comfort and ends up getting full on that! That’s actually another reason I want to stop so that she gets her nutrition mainly from solids and not milk. She is nursing at night too so I’m hoping once I wean her, her appetite will improve.
Thanks for your help Sehrysh! I’m going to wean her in 2 weeks. Wish me luck!!