Jules
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Getting Baby Off the Bottle :-)
Posted: 12-06-06 11:20am
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I got another question for you guys:
is smoking around your baby bad?
.K.I.D.D.I.N.G .Kia! 
my real question is this:
at what age did you stop giving your baby
bottles of milk? (this is obviously not
aimed at the breastfeeders.) I have given
my son formula since he was 10 weeks old
and he is nearly 21 months old now and
still has a bottle of milk to go to bed
on. My mil thinks it's disgusting to
see toddlers with a bottle but it doesn't
bother me at all because my son loves
his.
He doesn't use a dummy at all but I think
he definitely finds comfort in the bottle
at bedtime.
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tigresacanela24
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Posted: 12-06-06 11:24am
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My mum stopped giving me a bottle at
around 1 1/2. After that I got a sippy
cup. Dentist here say that it's a no-no
for bottles and bed because it rots the
baby's teeth.
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AyaMiyaki
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Posted: 12-06-06 11:31am
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This is totally unrelated.
Aly gets very excited when I take the boob
out. She knows she's about to get down
with the yummies, and she starts... To
suck her thumb! 
and she gets royally pissed when I take it
away from her! But she chills back out
when she gets the boob my
baby is so weird 
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Mommy35
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Posted: 12-06-06 11:34am
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My girl was about 18 months. I had
started by only putting water in her
bottles, especially at bedtime. The milk
can pool in the bottom of their mouth and
rot out their teeth.
We went to a farm where the goats were fed
by bottles. She was absolutely amazed by
this. The next day I told her that we
had to give all of her bottles to the
goats because they lost theirs.
She did whine a bit, but adjusted to a
sippy cup very quickly.
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Kia
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Posted: 12-06-06 11:35am
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Again this is my personal view, I know a
lot of you do things differently 
i think bottles should only be used to
replace breast feeding and that once the
child is taking solids and boiled
water/juice and can sit happily in a
highchair then the additional liquids
should be given in a sippy cup.
Potentially this means never giving a
breastfed baby a bottle 
i can see exceptions to this, where the
child is used to a bottle, and therefore
has one at bedtime - more as a
comforter.
I hate to see kids running round, bottle
clamped between their teeth so yeah sippy cups
all the way.
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AyaMiyaki
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Posted: 12-06-06 11:37am
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| kia_breizzze
wrote: | | potentially this means never
giving a breastfed baby a bottle |
.I hope to breastfeed .Aly long enough for
her to graduate to a sippy cup 
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Eyes Wide Shut
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Posted: 12-06-06 11:40am
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Hahahaha, .Kia!! I'm with you on that
one.
I give .Nana a bottle, but always have.
I feed her her night night bottle, and she
goes to sleep. Any other drink or food is
given to her while she's in the high
chair. Nowhere else. I don't want her
being confused as to where she eats.
My mom is a dental hygientist, and sees
hundreds of little kids whose teeth have
become rotten from sleeping with a
bottle.
If you're going to give a bottle at bed
time, give them water.
But, reguardless of what you give them,
they can acquire an ear infection from
laying flat and drinking...So be
careful!
Sarah
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Mommy35
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Posted: 12-06-06 11:41am
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My plan was to nurse exclusively, but bri
was born at 28 weeks. She was tube fed
for a couple of weeks and just never got
the hang of latching on. By the time she
could have, she was already used to the
bottle and the ease of it so I pumped and
pumped and pumped.
It did suck, but at least she got the
benefits of breastmilk.
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Kia
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Posted: 12-06-06 11:52am
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| mommy35
wrote: | | my plan was to nurse
exclusively, but bri was born at 28
weeks. |
that definately falls under medical
exceptions.
There will alway be women who simply can
not breastfeed, or babies who need feeding
assistance - I really only apply my view
to typical, normal birth weight/time
babies who don't have any complications.
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foxy
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Posted: 12-06-06 11:56am
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Tre stopped taking bottles around one
year....Maybe a bit before that. From he
was about 7/8 months he would always reach
for my or his father's glass when we were
drinking something and we would give him a
sip depending on what was, but he still
accepted his bottle but at around 11
months he just didn't want the bottle
anymoe and wanted to drink out of cups
exclusively, so I had him drinking out of
sippy cups until he could handle a real
cup without out spilling anything.
The pacifier is a whole other story
though.
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tigresacanela24
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Posted: 12-06-06 11:57am
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Totally off the subject but I was born at
thirty weeks and weighed 3 lbs 3 oz. I
was born in october and didn't get to
leave the hospital until january because I
had to weigh 5 lbs before I could leave.
When my mom first told me that I thought
she was lying...
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foxy
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Posted: 12-06-06 12:08pm
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| kia_breizzze
wrote: | again this is my personal
view, I know a lot of you do things
differently
i think bottles should only be used to
replace breast feeding and that once the
child is taking solids and boiled
water/juice and can sit happily in a
highchair then the additional liquids
should be given in a sippy cup.
Potentially this means never giving a
breastfed baby a bottle
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kia, in some place like where I am from,
we are only allowed 12 weeks maternity
leave, after that the baby has to go to
day care...So you will have the situation
where the baby is breastfed in the morning
and evening but bottle fed throughout the
day.
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Kia
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Posted: 12-06-06 12:15pm
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| foxy
wrote: | | kia, in some place like
where I am from, we are only allowed 12
weeks maternity leave, after that the baby
has to go to day care...So you will have
the situation where the baby is breastfed
in the morning and evening but bottle fed
throughout the
day. |
an appreciated point. Back in the post on
breastfeeding a while ago, I did say
though that if you have a situation where
by you bottle feed instead of breastfeed,
aim to give breast milk in a bottle,
rather than giving formula.
Breast > is better than > breastmilk
in a bottle > is better than >
formula > is better than > cows
milk
my gripe is when people simply say "oh
baby is x months" and switch to formula
for no other reason.
If you don't want to breastfeed or can't
be there all day then express and bottle
feed instead of formula.
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Sunflower_pie81
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Posted: 12-06-06 12:19pm
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My baby is in daycare. Luckly she is in
the same building as I am and I go down
and feed her at 10.30 and again at around
2.30. We have a great scedual. I love
it. As soon as I stop breast feeding I
am going to move to the sippy
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foxy
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Posted: 12-06-06 12:29pm
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| kia_breizzze
wrote: | | foxy
wrote: | | kia, in some place like
where I am from, we are only allowed 12
weeks maternity leave, after that the baby
has to go to day care...So you will have
the situation where the baby is breastfed
in the morning and evening but bottle fed
throughout the
day. |
an appreciated point. Back in the post
on breastfeeding a while ago, I did say
though that if you have a situation where
by you bottle feed instead of breastfeed,
aim to give breast milk in a bottle,
rather than giving formula.
Breast > is better than > breastmilk
in a bottle > is better than >
formula > is better than > cows
milk
my gripe is when people simply say "oh
baby is x months" and switch to formula
for no other reason.
If you don't want to breastfeed or can't
be there all day then express and bottle
feed instead of
formula. |
yeah we are in agreement, breastmilk in a
bottle, I just thought you meant no bottle
if breastfeeding regardless of what was in
it.
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Jules
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Posted: 12-06-06 12:30pm
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I adored breastfeeding my son -
I cried my eyes out when I had to stop.
He had stopped gaining weight and cried
constantly. He was feeding at my breast
every hour and screaming in between. The
doctor told me to switch to formula
because I was not producing enough milk.
I continued trying for another week but
gave up in the end. I don't regret it
because my child changed overnight - from
a screaming, unhappy baby to a contented
little boy who was only needing to feed
every 3 hours.
Broke my heart though 
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Kia
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Posted: 12-06-06 13:28pm
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| foxy
wrote: | | i just thought you meant no
bottle if breastfeeding regardless of what
was in it. |
i do think that is preferable but
preferable isn't always possible, so then
you have to look at the next best option.
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Posted: 12-06-06 14:26pm
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.Adriana doesn't care how she gets her
food as long as she gets it. So .I'm
going to take advantage of that and wean
her asap before she really gets attatched
to a bottle. She's doing good with a
sippy cup
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AyaMiyaki
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Posted: 12-06-06 14:27pm
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How did her doc appt. Go, .Mandi?
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sandyallen
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Posted: 12-06-06 15:18pm
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They used to have those tommy tippie cups
that my kids loved, they were a little
heavy on the bottom and they would tip and
stand right back up and I have searched
for them for other children but cannot
find them. My kids were about 8 months
old when they started off the bottle, I
had a difficult time breast feeding both
my .Sister and my .Mom could not breast
feed, my kids wanted to drink like we
drank out of a cup and they both threw
their binkie away fairly young but they
always carried their blanket anteddy bear
around with them for about a year and a
half, I feel that all kids or babas are
different as long as they are not hurting
anyone or themselves and they are healthy
that is the main thing some babas do have
medicak situations which can lead them to
use the bottle longer or even breastfeed
longer and that does not make them bad
parents or bad baby's.
I kind of look at it this way, this family
that was lost in .Oregon for sometime, if
it wasn't for her feeding both of her two
baby's I am not sure exactly how old the
children were, I believe 3y/o and 7 months
old, they would have probably starved to
death.
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