weaning from nursing- never had a bottle

[cupcake]

how do you do it?
My lo is currently on 3 feeds a day , morning, afternoon nap and night to go to sleep. I know i have myself in a real bind with the fact that i nurse him to sleep but hes refusing the pacifier/dummy.
I am trying to drop the morning feed by offering him water and a cookie and then taking him to daycare where he gets breakfast. He has water all day in a sippy cup. He wont take a bottle.

Do I replace my milk with cows milk? He hates it every time he tried it.
Do I start with formula at such a late stage, i mean hes almost 13 months, but if this will ease his transition from nursing i will do it.

I just dont know where to begin. Really need advice from those who have done it, especially those whose babies never took to bottle.

 

[marley2580]

With Kaya I just had to learn to say 'no' and distract her. We introduced a bedtime routine which started with a BF and then we phased the BF out.

 

[Jemima]

I am currently weaning Poppy of me. She was having a morning feed, a lunchtime feed, a mid afternoon feed, an evening feed and one in the night.

Over a period of around a fortnight, I have so far dropped the lunchtime and mid afternoon feeds. It has been a bit tricky and she still gets whingey in the afternoons but I always find a quick stroll in the pushchair helps to take her mind off it.

I haven't replaced these feeds with any other milk as I was advised that she would be getting enough with just her evening and morning feeds plus any dairy I am giving her in her food.

I have sometimes offered her some formula in a cup (hard spout, as she has never had a bottle either) and she has drank it ocassionally. I have also given her a bit of cow's milk to see how she liked it and she did prefer it to the formula (formula made her shudder!) I would say at your little boy's age, he can go straight onto cow's milk. Not sure how much as Poppy is younger than him but I was advised 7oz per feed, twice a day is plenty.

I am not sure how you could tackle the nursing to sleep issue. Have you thought about swapping your routine so the feed comes before bath as Marley said? This might help him to disassociate the feeding with sleep?

Good luck with it. It can be difficult for all concerned but I think it's best to take it slowly and offer plenty of cuddles as a replacement for the closeness they night be missing through the nursing.

 

[cupcake]

thanks everyone