BREAST FEEDING MOM NEEDING BREAST FEEDING HELP...

Nora - posted on 02/27/2010

I weaned my daughter of at 13 months. My best advice is that you should offer him the sippy cup throughout the day. Keeping offering no matter what. Pretend to sip and do a lot of clapping, hugs and rewarding for holding or even taking one sip.. Yes, he will be upset. My daughter use to throw her sippy cup at me and just cry her little eyes out but at the end of the day, you have to stick to your guns and not give in to the crying. When putting my daughter to bed at night i put on Dora the explorer( her absolute favorite) show and just held her beside me, it was a distraction and when she started throwing her tantrums you just have to be strong and toon out the crying.
And seriously, it only takes like a whole week for the whole crying goes away. I promise once you get it down it will be like it never happened!
Oh, and in the begging i use to mix in some cheerios or honey nut cheerios with her whole milk to give it a little kick. She really loved it since it made it a little sweeter. GOOD luck!!

Tara - posted on 02/26/2010

We had the same problem getting our son to take whole milk, cause the breast milk is sweeter. Mix your whole milk with warm water, or breast milk if you pump, and start him off with a bottle or sippy for one of the nursings you want to cut out. I have a friend having trouble with getting her son interested in a sippy too, and he does bottles during the day cause she works. If you have breast milk, use 3/4 bm and 1/4 whole and slowly increase your whole. If you have to use water, take about 2/3 whole milk and the rest water. Our guy decided that he didnt want the milk sippy at night before bed and just cut that one out by himself. For middle of the night feedings, you can also use a bottle of water, because they lose interest in waking up if they dont get what they want (the boob). This will take you a few days to a week, but it does work cause we did it. If he is getting enough people food and the nursing is just extra at this point, like your doc said, then all you really have to worry about when you take away those feedings is his liquid intake, so cut out one feeding at a time each week, and in its place keep offering the sippy or a bottle, even if you dont get interest, cause he will either want the comfort or the hydration. My son played with sippys from about 6 mos on, but I still have trouble getting him to drink all the milk i would prefer, so alot of the time, he just drinks water and i make sure he eats lots of yogurt and cheese. If you dont give him options and just slowly make the changes, he will do fine. BTW, good job on BFing for 14 mos, we made it about 13.5 before my son really lost interest and i cut off the boob bank lol.