Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Will you help me replace the bottle in the routine??
For all three of my kids, now ages 2, 4 and 6 I did the same thing I phased it out one at a time, Some people say cold turkey personally I think that is cruel the bottle and rocking with you are a soothing comforting thing and it should not be something your child feels stress over no longer having. I started by doing away with the morning bottle and giving my kids a sippy cup with half water half juice, they seemed happy because the juice was new and exciting. Then about a month later I replaced the bottle before nap in the afternoon with a sippy cup of milk for lunch and we still rocked for a few minutes and I sang two quick song, (rock a bye baby, and take my out to the ball game of course you can choose whatever you like) About a month later I started with a sippy cup of milk for dinner and stopped the bedtime bottle and made sure I gave them a bath everynight and read a couple of books. (just make sure you set a limit with the books or they will keep asking for one more and you will be reading all night).
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