Weaning Help! - Platte City,MO

Is she using this to fall asleep? It sounds like the 4am time is more of a comfort she is wanting not the actual 'drink'. I would try to get rid of the nap and bedtime first. Then go to 4am one. Try other comforting methods. They can be very stubborn. Good luck.

my daughter was 2 when i weaned her, so this might not work for u....i put bandais on my nipples and told her they were broken.

good luck!

Being that you may be having surgery, I would go cold turkey. It will be hard, but it will be harder ot deal with her fussiness when you are healing.

God bless & Merry Christmas!

Bandaids on the nipples is brilliant. I also went cold turkey when I weaned my kids. When I was ready to wean them, I told them the boobies were broken. It took a good week of fussiness but eventually they move forward. I nursed my first son to 18 mos and he night nursed a lot until he was 18 mos. He developed lots of cavities as a result. I read Dr Sears books and they always said that breast milk didn't cause cavities. But I still wonder why he's the only one to have cavities at such a young age. He never had sweet drinks or juice, just breast milk. I weaned my other two children at 12/13 mos and they have healthy teeth. So who knows. Good luck. Prepare for some pain. I took motrin and used cold packs. The engorgement lasts about a week. Watch for hot lumpy spots on breasts and fever - Mastitis is not fun.

we didn't take away the kids "bottles" until they were older...why not try interducing breast milk in a bottle and weaning her that way? Or if the Ped says it is ok to go from breast milk to whole milk if you don't want to buy formula go that route ( I know formula is expensive) try warming it since breast milk is warm. Also if you are not the one offering the bottle that helps to. I am sorry weaning isn't going well. I had one that didn't want to give it up and two that were so easy it almost hurt my feelings! Good luck
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Have you tried giving her a bottle or Nuby? A nuby is kind of between a sippy cup and bottle. That is what I used with my son and his sippy cups. But when I went back to work and didn't pump, I ended up drying up right around 12 months, so I couldn't get much milk out, so we just went to bottles and sippy cups and then just sippy cups.

Good luck. I missed the closeness with nursing and am hoping to have another baby sometime next year.

Over a year is time for whole milk anyway, so I love the idea of giving her warmed whole milk--maybe even mixed with breast milk--to get the flavor she likes without nursing. Nuby cups are great for transitioning to sippies and they are more like nursing than a cup. While the doc might not like it, my girl was still mostly on bottles at that age and we found that easier than sippies or cups for her. She still has warm milk before bed in a sippy and she's 18 mons.

Best of luck and hope the surgery is easy and recovery fast.

You only have a few weeks here before the surgery so I would cut out the nap time completely and give a cup if she'll take it and then nap with crying a bit. The cut out the other two feedings one at a time and hold her close like when nursing only with a bottle. Other wise let her cry and just do it if she refuses. I cut out my last two by just giving drinks with meals and they were one year old when we quit completely. Last to go was bedtime. I just gave a cup when they woke up with breakfast and the hardest was that secure bedtime feeding which is mainly just for snuggling. I hope you can do it without too much frustration on either of you. Maybe if you just go in another room and let Daddy do it with the bottle it would help eventually. Sorry you have to do this when having a bit more time would go more smoothly. Hope the surgery goes well too.