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Definately need to stop at 12 months.. any advice?
« on: September 22, 2006, 12:46:58 pm »
My DD was the result of IVF treatment and is now 9 months old  :) DH and I went back to the hospital today to start the ball rolling with another attempt next year which will involve frozen embryo transfer (we have 5 embryos in storage from our last 2 IVF attempts) anyway...

the doctor said that I will have to wait til I stop breastfeeding before they can go ahead as my periods/hormones must be allowed to return to normal. This isn't a big problem as I'd already decided to wean my DD at 12 months and the process has already begun with us successfully dropping her 11am feed (she is on 3 very good solids meals plus snacks each day). I don't think we'll have a problem dropping the 3pm feed in a few months, and I guess that the morning feed can be replaced successfully with her solids breakfast. The one I'm worried about is the evening feed before bed!

I know it's more about comfort than food, we both enjoy the closeness of that feed. So my question is, when the time comes, what's the best way to wean DD from this feed? Under 'normal' circumstances I would probably have continued with this feed until my lo was ready to drop it, but I'm not getting any younger and we'd like to try for another baby. I'd just like the transition to be as easy as possible for both of us    :-[
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Re: Definately need to stop at 12 months.. any advice?
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2006, 21:55:23 pm »
Do you feed her right before bed?  If yes, could you feed her, then bath and other nighttime rituals, then dad put her to bed?  That way it is no longer associated with "right before bed".  Then, when the time comes, offer her a bedtime snack of milk in  a sippy and do the same rest of the routine.... perhaps you could even leave the house (might be hard to watch/hear or might be hard to leave  :-\  )

Hope all works out for you  :-*
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Re: Definately need to stop at 12 months.. any advice?
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2006, 17:54:39 pm »
I think you're right. I currently do feed her just before I put her to bed, so maybe over the next month or so I'll move the feed back to before her bath and then try the sippy cup at bedtime.

We're currently working on DH actually putting her to bed. I usually feed her in our room and then he'll carry her through to her room, which is always well lit and we get her to switch the light off etc etc just to make sure she's not sleeping! lol! At least then it's not all about me and hopefully that will help when we try the new bedtime routine.

Thanks x  :)
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