in Colorado
Weaning off breastfeeding
Any tips for how to start the process for this?? i’ve been exclusively breastfeeding for 11 months and have started thinking about what I’m going to do when my baby turns 1 in a month. we don’t use bottles so I’m nervous about trying to move to milk. any advice would be greatly appreciated!
We moved from a bottle, but are having a lot of success with the food first approach. The actually movement from bottle to cup we did by putting her formula into the cup when she was trying foods. To give her a chance to learn to use her cup. At first she got her morning formula feed and we did breakfast like an hour after with milk in her cup. During the day when she started to get hungry we would always offer food and her cup first so she could “fill up”. At first she needed lots of top offs but now she eats til she’s full and doesn’t ask for the bottle. Then we started offering the cup first and one day she just took it and I made breakfast while she was drinking from the cup. We still have a night night bottle but it gets water in it now, but we started this transition 3 weeks ago. We just kind of let her go at her own pace.