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Wanting to thank Paggie's Mom for weaning advice.
« Reply #165 on: November 26, 2006, 07:52:38 am »
Hi,
My lo is 13 mo and is completely finished with bottles and the breast ;D. He really loved to nurse too so I was suprised that it went so easily. I went on the chat room to ask for advice when the site was down. Thanks to Paggie's Mom for great advice!! We followed her advice and then added our own spin on things. First around 12 mo we stopped the morning feed by just offering breakfast as soon as lo woke up. Didn't care for cow/goat milk too much so we didn't bother too much with that-but he likes yogurt. Lo never missed the morning feed  ;D :o. After a week we started to try taking away the night feed which didn't go so well. He cried and didn't want water and we were just fed up and said, "Ok just give him the bottle!" But after a week of that ds decided to take over putting lo to sleep. Everyday we watered down lo's bottle just like how we did to get rid of the dream feed. After 3 days lo was just chewing on the nipple and did not really want the watered down formula. So the next night ds gave lo a sippy cup with water before placing lo in bed. Ds also put the sippy cup in the bed with lo incase he got thirsty at night. This worked really well and lo became more independent and played with his toys in the crip before drifting off to sleep. This was instead of falling asleep on the breast to go to sleep everynight. Now ds and lo have a great time getting ready for bed. :D Hope this can be useful for others also.

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« Reply #166 on: November 26, 2006, 21:20:17 pm »
That's great advice!  DS is almost 11 months and just last week I finished weaning him from bfing to formula in a bottle.  I did this slowly over 2 months.  We have just moved from Nestle Good Start formula to Nestle Transitions formula and will keep that up for the next month and then go to cow's milk in January.  He has taken a sippy cup of water very well since 6 months and drinks a cupful throughout the course of the day between his 3 meals and afternoon snack.  We are still at 4 6oz bottles, though.  Should we just start trying to wean to the cup when we move to cow's milk? 
I am also planning to cut the second bottle of the day first in about 2 weeks and move lunch a bit earlier.  I'm not sure which order to really cut back the bottles.  Suggestions and experiences?
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« Reply #167 on: November 27, 2006, 12:33:19 pm »
From experience it is a lot easier to cut out the day bottles rather than the feeding before bedtime. When you cut the day bottle you can just offer breakfast or lunch at the time you normally give the bottle, or you can offer a snack to hold lo until lunch. We didn't do the transition formula because the only difference was that the next level had vanilla flavoring and I figured that not doing the transition formula would help me wean lo faster since he was too old for it anyway. It worked :D.
 Since cows milk tastes different than formula I would start the first day offering it in a bottle (something familiar), and then everyday after I would just use the sippy cup. My lo does not drink very much milk, but he eats a lot of yogurt and cheese.
Hope this helps:)


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« Reply #168 on: November 27, 2006, 16:21:10 pm »
Thanks!  I don't think Brenden is too thrilled with the transition formula, actually.  It is really different from the other one, I find it is really frothy, definitely thinner and warms up and foams very fast.  He has definitely not been drinking as much formula since the switch.  He loves yogurt and cheese so it shouldn't be a problem when I switch over to cow's milk.

This is a question to everyone in general - if/when you switched from the original formula to the transition one, did you notice extra gross and more frequent poops at first from your lo?
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« Reply #169 on: December 01, 2006, 02:26:28 am »
*sniff*

My DD took her last breastfeed on Monday. I was supplementing every BF with FF for a month as she was losing weight and I had a supply prob. I was pumping to try to get it back on track. And it was going well. But on Monday we went on a 5 hour journey by car and she just refused to take the breast because she was so wired and the flow was annoying her. And since then she goes on the boob for a second or two then just wants the bottle.

I'm having a hard time coping as in my mind i wanted to bf for a year at least. And she is only 8 months old. I keep pumping to try to keep supply up (it's dwindling like mad now) and I think I'm going to give up doing that.... it's just time consuming and for what? She's clearly past the breast.

I guess I should be thankful that I did it for as long as I did, and that at least I won't have any problems of her going "booby boooby booooobeeeeee" when she's 5 at the supermarket checkout :D but it was such a special time and I'm going to miss it terribly.

Hmm,.... perhaps it's time for Number 2????? (better get my head checked!)

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« Reply #170 on: December 02, 2006, 18:00:30 pm »
Hi there,

I've read through a number of the posts and have found all of the advice on weaning very helpful.  I've been bf'ing my lo for almost 14 months.  Somewhere around his first birthday I began to get those first feelings of being 'done' with bf'ing.  Not that it's been bad, quite the contrary; we've had a great nursing relationship and it's been a very special time.  As for going about weaning, I've really been going more on instinct rather than following a set plan.  First I stopped nursing to sleep, so ds wouldn't still have that habit when I started to wean.  Then I dropped the mid-afternoon feed, which he didn't seem to miss at all.  So I've been doing first thing in the a.m., a mid-morning feed, and bedtime.  Well, today, the mid-morning feed was dropped as I offered him a snack along with some cow's milk (which he's really begun to like). 

I was just sitting here realizing that as of today, it looks like we're down to 2 feeds a day.  And believe it or not, the bedtime one seems to be less and less important to him, as it is not the way he falls asleep anymore.  So now that it's hitting me that we could be close to a total weaning in the next month or so, I'm feeling all emotional  :'(  On the one hand, I feel ready to wean and move forward with the next chapter in our relationship, but of course it's sad because I'll never nurse this particular child ever again.

Anyway, just wanted to get my feelings out there and I may be back whenever he's weaned completely, to come on here and sob.....

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« Reply #171 on: December 02, 2006, 18:19:47 pm »
I know it's such mixed feelings. HUGS.
Please be so proud of what you have achieved and the fact your little boy is moving onto the next stage of his life. There will be so many more special experiences the two of you will share in all the years to come.
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« Reply #172 on: December 03, 2006, 03:55:58 am »
Well, I think we're done.  It's now been a week since dd#2 has nursed.  She is 22 months old.  I was hoping to wrap up before the end of the year and we made it!!!!!  A month ago or so I decided that we would only be nursing at home.  Otherwise we'd be nursing just about everywhere, including the car, with her legs hanging out my open door.  When the rainy weather started it just wouldn't work anymore nursing her in the car.  The backseat already has 2 carseats and there's no place else to sit but the driver or passenger seat!  I always made sure that I had ample snacks and a beverage for little dd to replace the car nursings. 

2 weeks ago I wasn't doing very well mentally and DH had to watch the girls for about 2 days.  It was the first time he put little dd to bed without her nursing.  Somehow she figured out that nursing was making mommy sad....which is true...it has been lately.  My hormones have been driving me crazy and now that we're done nursing I'm hoping that I can become a little more like my normal self.  I'm glad I made it this far although I had originally only anticipated nursing dd#2 for a year.  But, she loved nursing.  Boob was her favorite thing.  Happily, a warm cup of whole milk seems to have made a nice replacement with lots of hugs and showers of kisses.  I so love holding little dd in my lap now with her head up by my heart rather than my boob.   :)

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« Reply #173 on: December 04, 2006, 18:21:45 pm »
So, my last post was only 1 page back Nov. 20th.  And I mentioned how my goal was to drop to 1 BF after his b-day (which is today), then be totally done by x-mas.  We'll see how it goes, I'll keep you posted.

I also  mentioned how it would be nice to have some drinks during the holidays (I also have a wedding coming up) & "have my body back" for a few months before trying for my 2nd.  Well, too late!!! I'm pregnant again already!!!! 

Wasn't really expecting to get pregnant again right away, this was the 1st month we weren't "careful".  Guess, I have to start checking out the 2 under 2 board!  They'll be almost 20 mos. apart.

Good luck to everyone else weaning. I'll let you know how things go.
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« Reply #174 on: December 05, 2006, 00:57:51 am »
Congratulations!!!!!!!!!  And happy birthday to James!  Shame you can't enjoy the drinkies over the festive season, but what a good reason not to be!!  My two are 19.5m apart, and it's really fun!  (Hard work especially in the beginning, but lots of fun too).

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« Reply #175 on: December 06, 2006, 14:24:28 pm »
Thanks Denise!

DS got a cold for his birthday, he's all stuffed up & coughing. Not too interested in finishing his BF.  I'm giving him lots of clear fluids, diluted juice & water. He might wean sooner than I wanted to b/c of this.  :'(
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« Reply #176 on: January 08, 2007, 05:00:41 am »
My daughter Charlotte is almost nine months now and I've only breastfed her. I am ready to go back to work now so I need to wean her from the breast. I have tried giving her a bottle and a cup and she won't drink from either of them. The big problem is that she can't go to sleep unless she's nursing. I have to put her in a daycare but I know she will not sleep during the day and when she is over tired she gets really fussy. What should I do?

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« Reply #177 on: January 11, 2007, 07:52:19 am »
Hi charlottes mommy, I think you might need some help fom the 'naps' forum on how to get her to sleep without using your breast as a prop. Good luck!
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« Reply #178 on: January 13, 2007, 02:12:29 am »
Hi, this is my first time on this link and I am hoping that you might be able to help me.  My little chunk-a-monk is 9mths (today) and 25 lbs.  Below is our eating schedule
8am Wake and Eat - expressed BM (7ozs)
9am Solids - breakfast (one gerber stage 2 fruit w/ 3tbls cereal)
1pm expressed bm (7ozs)
2pm Solids - lunch (introducing on Monday for first time.  Probably yogurt.  Dr. recommended waiting until now to introduce b/c of weight)
6pm  BF
7pm  Solids - dinner (on gerber stage 2 veggie w/ 3tbls cereal)
8pm Sleep
10pm  DF  (long story on why we are still doing the df - mainly because it enables me to have 1/2 of the bf's as opposed to 3 expressed feedings)

Ok, my question.  I know from reading other posts that the df will probably not work for much longer.  I know that some lo's are down to three feedings at this age.  Do you think I can try to get rid of it without upping daytime ounces?  If not, at what age do you think I can?  If I need to up daytime feedings, what should I up them to (9ounces?)?  (we plan to wean to whole milk starting at 11mths and ending around his b-day)
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« Reply #179 on: January 17, 2007, 02:56:39 am »
Lynda -
We dropped to 3 BFs at 10 months (I THINK..) and just substituted a snack in it's place as I had stopped pumping several months earlier and had no intention to start up again..!  I started w/.the BF after the am nap....and we gave a serving of yogurt or cheese.  Worked great.

Good luck!