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Time to drop morning bottle- pls advice
« on: August 29, 2011, 11:18:46 am »
Hello :)

Dd is 2 yrs now and we are starting nursery soon. She has to be in school at 8:30.
She wakes up at ash, takes 2 or 3 oz but then only can take breakfast at 8:30!
I m thinking of stopping the bottle altogether so she can have breakfast at around 745am...
She also usually has a snack at 930, fruits and yogurt and lunch at 12pm.
Snack at 430.
 Diner at 545.
bedtime bottle at 715- 7oz.
How do you think I shud do that?

Thank you for ur advice x


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Re: Time to drop morning bottle- pls advice
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2011, 19:26:51 pm »
Hi there -

I would offer some milk in a cup with breakfast at 7:45. I'm not much help really as Colin had dropped bottles at 13 mo.
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Re: Time to drop morning bottle- pls advice
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2011, 19:31:05 pm »
I agree - give her breakfast around 7.45 and give her milk in a cup with it. You can also swap her bedtime bottle to a cup once she gets used to drinking milk in a cup.

We dropped the morning milk bottle around 13 months too, and swapped her bedtime milk into a cup at 18 months. DS had a bedtime bottle until he was 2.5, I'm glad we swapped DD earlier though!

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Re: Time to drop morning bottle- pls advice
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2011, 19:44:37 pm »
It's a no go with switching to milk in a cup for us still.  Hope it goes smoothly for you.  I am not encouraging you to keep the bottle, but we dilute milk in the morning and DS could eat breakfast right away.  Just a thought if she wouldn't take it and you don't want all the angry tears first thing in the morning!  Hugss



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Re: Time to drop morning bottle- pls advice
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2011, 08:29:32 am »
Hi and thank you ladies X
Dd was never a big milk drinker, that's why we stuck to the bottle.
But now the first thing she asks for in the morning is her milk :)
I thought of switching to skimmed cow milk, which is lighter for her to digest and eat breakfast earlier,
 but diluting formula is probably better since the taste won't change the taste.
 And then I could offer her a cup of milk at breakfast...
I ll try that tomorrow :)
Thank u again ladies X we ll keep u updated


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Re: Time to drop morning bottle- pls advice
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2011, 14:42:26 pm »
Is she still on formula? If she is why not switch her to whole cow's milk? UK advice is that skimmed cow's milk isn't suitable before the age of 5, but toddlers on a varied diet can have skimmed (2%) milk from 2 but should still have full fat cheese, yoghurt etc.

If you give her watered down formula I would think she will fill up on that and you'd be no better off really. If she wants the milk then she will drink it in a cup once she realises it's that or nothing. It may take a while to take the same amount, but if you keep offering in a cup then she will take it. I would just do breakfast earlier and milk with it, this is what my two do every day!

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Re: Time to drop morning bottle- pls advice
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2011, 16:27:08 pm »
Ok, ill try that tomorrow.
Since her formula intake was always low, I always gave her for breakfast I always give a milk base pudding or a bowl of full fat yogurt with a sandwich.
Plus a bowl of yogurt for lunch and diner along with the meals.
So I'm not sure how to fit the cup of milk in the morning, unless we cut on yogurt...
It won't be easy to reason her out of her morning bottle, but I'm willing to try.
Ill keep you posted, thank you XXX


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Re: Time to drop morning bottle- pls advice
« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2011, 16:37:13 pm »
You don't need to cut out her yoghurt, just give her the milk to drink along side her meal, that way if she doesn't drink all the milk she is still getting the calcium etc from the yoghurt. 

My two have a bowl of cereal with a lot of milk in it and a cup of milk to drink, they usually finish both. If they don't have cereal they have toast and fruit and a cup of milk. If they haven't had a cup of milk with their breakfast I give it to them as a snack with toast or fruit mid morning. They also have a cup of milk to drink with their evening meal and DD also has a cup of milk to go to bed.

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Re: Time to drop morning bottle- pls advice
« Reply #8 on: September 03, 2011, 05:32:21 am »
Have you asked your nursery if they will / can give breakfast?  We have the opposite problem.  Our son is up at 5:30/6 (the latter on a good day) so breakfast is around 6:45, on nursery days he then has a second breakfast at around 8:30!  He eats them both and tends not to have snacks on nursery days so it kind of works out?!
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Re: Time to drop morning bottle- pls advice
« Reply #9 on: September 04, 2011, 17:18:43 pm »
Hi, so we ve been 2days bottle free :) no tears no struggle to my amazement :) thank god! I just told her that we ll have her milk in a cup later for breakfast and we ate bfst at 745 today which was a great. She wasnt devoring her breakfast like usual but did eat it. But she only had very little sips of cow milk... I'm gona offer a different cow milk tomorrow hoping she ll like it better... Her morning formula was always very little anyway (0 to 3oz)...so I won't stress.
What do you think?
To answer you lemknthyme, nursery offers snack -yogurt,fruits and some carbs) at 9:30, only, which Gaia takes already around this time and then lunch at 12)


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Re: Time to drop morning bottle- pls advice
« Reply #10 on: September 04, 2011, 17:21:47 pm »
Yeah - well done! They amaze us sometimes don't they ;D

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Re: Time to drop morning bottle- pls advice
« Reply #11 on: September 05, 2011, 09:07:48 am »
Yes all the time :) what about the milk... Missing 2 oz from her bottle should not be a big deal, but I feel I took smthg away from her, smthg she needed... You know?
She didn't like the new milk either this morning... Ill keep offering it I guess... But shud I mix it with formula?
I always make sure that she takes loads of foods with calcium all day... Yogurt, fruits veggies...
What do u think?


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Re: Time to drop morning bottle- pls advice
« Reply #12 on: September 05, 2011, 09:25:42 am »
Wow!!  Well done!  I think if she's getting loads from yoghurt, cheese, etc, you won't have to worry about it at all.  Daycare refuses to give kids milk unless cold from a cup.  They say, they don't need so much milk anymore from 2!!  Talking about strict and lazy LOL



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Re: Time to drop morning bottle- pls advice
« Reply #13 on: September 05, 2011, 14:44:35 pm »
It's fine not to be drinking much milk, many children don't actually like it or can't drink it so you just need to make sure she has plenty of other sources of calcium which it sounds like she does!

I would keep offering, if she is drinking some of it I wouldn't bother mixing with formula.

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Re: Time to drop morning bottle- pls advice
« Reply #14 on: September 05, 2011, 18:27:55 pm »
Yes, just needed to hear that :)
She chose a yogurt drink today for the afternoon snack! Took 120ml, things even out somehow at the end :)
The body takes what it needs :)
Thank you ladies for all your support XXX