Anyone stopped breastfeeding after 6 months but before 12?

[Serene123]

How did you do it?

I mean, Caitlyn is really attatched to the boob, but I think I'm ready to stop breastfeeding.. I think she is too!

I don't really want to go to bottles, so can you give formula in a cup? How would you make it up if you put it in a cup? Make it in a bottle and tip it in a cup? Would I need to sterillise the cup if I put formula in it?

I'm not 100% sure we're going to stop yet. I am wondering how I would go about it before she can have cows milk though.

Thanks x

 

[Lucy&Pard]

Cant help much but I am thinking the same but cups are fine. I think you still need to sterilise things that milk go in after 6 months just because germs breed so well in milk. Sorrr cant help much

 

[Vickie]

The times I've put formula in a cup I've made it in a bottle, mostly because I like the measurements to be accurate. But if you used a measuring cup to measure out the water I can't see that there would be much difference from making it up in a bottle or a cup

 

[KarenLV]

I went to the babyclinic last week to discuss this. I was told giving in a sippy cup would be the best option as babies should be off bottles and on sippy cups by one year old.She said babies who are breastfed and have never been introduced to bottles (like mine) take a sippy cup easier. Start replacing one feed at a time during daytime gradually.The last feeds to go over to sippy cup would be the bedtime and early morning wake up drinks.Cups dont need to be sterilised.Just warm water and soap.
I gave Skyler one feed today in his cup.He is already used to his cup anyways as I give him juice in it.He was quite surprised to find milk in it but continued anyways. He didnt drink all of it but at least it's a start. You can use expressed milk if you do it before 12 months or if you want to use formula you can do that too.At 1 year its cows milk of course.Anyways,thats what I have been told.I have also decided to give up on 100% breastfeeding but it's a bit emotional for me so I'm taking it verrryyy slowly.

 

[Serene123]

Thank you girls!!

I went to the babyclinic last week to discuss this. I was told giving in a sippy cup would be the best option as babies should be off bottles and on sippy cups by one year old.She said babies who are breastfed and have never been introduced to bottles (like mine) take a sippy cup easier. Start replacing one feed at a time during daytime gradually.The last feeds to go over to sippy cup would be the bedtime and early morning wake up drinks.Cups dont need to be sterilised.Just warm water and soap.
I gave Skyler one feed today in his cup.He is already used to his cup anyways as I give him juice in it.He was quite surprised to find milk in it but continued anyways. He didnt drink all of it but at least it's a start. You can use expressed milk if you do it before 12 months or if you want to use formula you can do that too.At 1 year its cows milk of course.Anyways,thats what I have been told.I have also decided to give up on 100% breastfeeding but it's a bit emotional for me so I'm taking it verrryyy slowly.

Thank you so much!

She won't take bottles atall now. She loves her sippy cup though! She drinks out of it all day. I think I'll get a pump and see how we go with that.

 

[hypnorm]

i stopped feeding ewan at 9 months, gradually reduced the feeds untill i was just feeding him morning and evening, it was more so to wean my self off it too!
i did give bottles as he wouldnt take to anything else, and put him on formula i wasnt sterlising things at this point - he was crawling so was subject to germs on the floor anyway so thought it a bit of a waste of time.

 

[ryder]

Definately go to the sippy cup... I make my formula in a big jug and just pour it into bottles as I need it. She uses it within the day anyways.

 

[Serene123]

I think, as she won't need much formula now, I might just use cartons!

 

[ColtonsMom]

Yeah, I would def go with the sippy. It's been hard for me to get Colton to take his milk in a sippy, since he is so attached to his bottles.
And you shouldn't need to sterilize the cup (mostly because you CANT sterilize most of them) and like hypnorm said, with her crawling around, she is getting germs anyway.

 

[leeanne]

I think, as she won't need much formula now, I might just use cartons!

That's probably a good idea. TBH, she may take to it better as well. I know two of my kids couldn't stand powdered formula. With Amanda, when I weaned her from breastfeeding I tried everything and she finally settled on one brand of liquid formula.

 

[Serene123]

Thank you girls x

 

[DonnaE26]

When i had my 2nd daughter i BF her for 11 months but she refused point blank to take a bottle so i sneakly done it at night when she woke for a feed (yes still woke for night feed at 11 months) id snuggle her right in and put a bottle in her mouth then after that she took one just fine...Moving from breast to bottle can be really hard.I found it exhausting x x x But good luck hope all goes well for you ...