https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:30:30 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/3-year-old-coming-in-many-times-per-night#post-2876586 Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:56:25 +0000 agold 2876586@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm going to follow along. I have a 2.5 year old that I still have in a crib. She cries for me usually at least once soon after I put her down, and then again around 5 am. I can't even imagine what will happen when I put her into a toddler bed and she has all of that freedom. 10 month baby is still waking up twice a night. Ugh. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/3-year-old-coming-in-many-times-per-night#post-2876543 Thu, 14 Mar 2019 12:45:47 +0000 Mrs. Pajamas 2876543@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@antonia27: try a sticker chart with a simple reward if lo stays in bed for, say, 3 nights in a row. Worked like a charm for my 4yo dd. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/3-year-old-coming-in-many-times-per-night#post-2876042 Tue, 12 Mar 2019 07:45:25 +0000 LindsayInNY 2876042@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Reviving this post as were in the same boat with our 3.5 year old! It seems to be the age for this. What gives?!</p> <p>Her wake up is usually to be tucked in. Sometimes asking for water or something. She’ll pee on her own, she has a cup of water in her room... This started when I was pregnant, maybe October or November? Now we have a 3 month old who sleeps near my side of the bed and I don’t want woken up. We tried a reward chart which seemed to incentivize her but then she went back to old habits. I tried another one but the reward clearly isn’t good enough because it’s not working. Baby waking me is enough, I don’t need her to too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingnap-schedule-priority#post-2823910 Tue, 22 May 2018 00:10:00 +0000 MsMini 2823910@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@DesertDreams88: Yes! She is 6 months old - I totally forgot to put that in my post. See ... sleep deprived :wink: </p> <p>@starchild: We are definitely doing night sleep training as well as working on the schedule. Its a lot all at once!</p> <p>Thanks everyone - I was leaning towards working on the nap timing first before "nap training" so I'm glad that sounds like the consensus on what makes sense! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingnap-schedule-priority#post-2823869 Mon, 21 May 2018 18:36:24 +0000 erinbaderin 2823869@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did a schedule and a nap/bedtime routine first, and then dropped rocking to sleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingnap-schedule-priority#post-2823867 Mon, 21 May 2018 18:15:22 +0000 DesertDreams88 2823867@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I see from your profile that LO is 6 months? I think 2 naps is understandable at that age.</p> <p>We prioritized a regular schedule first before sleep training. I felt that if her body got used to sleeping at certain times, then it would make sleep training smoother. I didn't want to be faced with a situation in which LO was screaming his head off for 20+ minutes bc I was trying to get him to sleep at a time that wasn't natural/habitual yet to him. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingnap-schedule-priority#post-2823859 Mon, 21 May 2018 17:13:34 +0000 starchild 2823859@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sleep train at night first, it's easier because their sleep drive is stronger. Naps do after that. Highly recommend Precious Little Sleep (book, blog, podcasts, facebook group). And just be aware that for some babies, checks make it worse. I'd start with that approach and hope for the best, but if it doesn't seem to working after a while, maybe tweak a little and cut them back. Good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingnap-schedule-priority#post-2823857 Mon, 21 May 2018 17:09:44 +0000 MsMini 2823857@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ok, so I have decided the time has come to get LO3 on a schedule and sleep train her. </p> <p>For background LO1 was naturally a terrible sleeper that puked with any sleep training that included pretty much any length of crying so he was up 5+ times per night until he weaned at 16 months old.</p> <p>LO2 was a magical unicorn who STTN and had herself on a great nap routine by 4 weeks old and each sleep regression we just dropped a nap.</p> <p>LO3 did great until 4 months. Nap schedule was pretty all over the place because, well, 3rd baby. Now she is struggling more. Wanting to be rocked down, sleep is all over the place etc.</p> <p>I want to get her on a 2 nap, 3/2/1 schedule. It should work well for my morning trips to drop off kids, go to the gym, do pickups etc. I also need to sleep train her because she wants to be rocked to sleep 24/7.</p> <p>Which would you tackle first? The schedule and rock her if need be to make those 2 naps happen properly, OR the sleep training (we are most comfortable with controlled crying with checks/re-assuring every 5 minutes). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-specific-questions-help#post-2820185 Thu, 03 May 2018 20:11:37 +0000 erinbaderin 2820185@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did sleep training about that age. We kept the swaddle, I was convinced he needed it. Dropping it later really wasn’t hard. For night feedings, the sleep trainer we hired suggested a dream feed between 10 and 11, and then another feed between 4 and 5 if he woke up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-specific-questions-help#post-2820184 Thu, 03 May 2018 19:41:52 +0000 irene 2820184@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@kayla0416: It has been a long time since we did sleep training, but the book The Baby Whisperer was a lifesaver to me in all areas. It talks about sleep training and I highly recommend giving it a read. In fact, I just googled and came to this link:</p> <p><a href="https://www.wikihow.com/Apply-the-Baby-Whisperer%27s-Sleep-Method" rel="nofollow">https://www.wikihow.com/Apply-the-Baby-Whisperer%27s-Sleep-Method</a></p> <p>I quickly glanced through it and it seems to align with what I remembered, I still recommend getting an actual copy of the book though, good luck!</p> <p>ETA: Actually why don't you try searching "sleep training" on the main blog section on hellobee - I remember I got a lot of information when Mrs. Bee needed to do that for her kids. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-specific-questions-help#post-2820132 Thu, 03 May 2018 14:59:06 +0000 kayla0416 2820132@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: @snarkybiochemist: @gingerbebe: </p> <p>Thank you so much for the tips and encouragement!! I'm so nervous but I'm also ready to stick with it because I'm just at my breaking point. My husband is definitely supportive and probably would've done it a couple weeks ago if I let him, haha. We have an older daughter too and I didn't really realize this at the time but we were so lucky with her sleep! She slept 8 hours straight consistently by 3 months and 11 hours straight by 7 months, so we hardly had any trouble with her. She did go through a little regression around 6 months where she'd wake up more and more often and want her paci but couldn't get it back in by herself yet. We got sick of going to replace it for her so we used extinction CIO to take the paci away and it took 3 nights and she was back to normal. Somehow I don't see this being quite as easy. ;) I'll stay strong! I will definitely do the swaddle and paci at the same time. I don't want to do it twice! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-specific-questions-help#post-2820111 Thu, 03 May 2018 13:30:29 +0000 gingerbebe 2820111@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would drop the swaddle, paci, all of it. I used sleep regressions to do that with both my kids because they weren't sleeping anyway and its easier to get rid of that stuff early on.</p> <p>At that age, I gave both my kids a lovey. DS1 started chewing/sucking on his lovey at that point (he started teething early, which could be what's going on for your kid too) and gnawing on his lovey was how he self-soothed to sleep for a long time. DS2 ignored his lovey, but found his fingers/hands and was a finger sucker for most of his first year. </p> <p>Sleep training methods is really more about the kid than the parent. What I mean by this is that parents often pick a method that makes them comfortable, but it may not be what works best for their kid. DS1 needed full on extinction - his personality was and is such that he just got hysterical. DS2 is much more laid back and we didn't even really need to train him all that hardcore - and checks would totally work for that kid and even now during his 2 year regression, we can check on him just fine. (DS1 at 3.5, we still need to just let him holler and have a fit and go to sleep instead of trying to comfort him, otherwise we'll be in there all night).</p> <p>With DS1, we did a dreamfeed where we woke him for a top off around 10pm until he was 5 months old (after a 730pm bedtime). DS2 we did a dreamfeed until 12 weeks or so. But otherwise we didn't do nightfeedings. The only exception was if they woke around the 5-6am hour. I'd try a paci at that point to see if it would settle them to sleep and if it didn't, I assumed they were hungry. I mention this so that you don't feel bad about not wanting to nurse until a certain time in the middle of the night. If your girl is good at nursing and eating well during the day, her needs for milk overnight are limited.</p> <p>I would say prepare to give it 2 weeks and to not start until you are fully committed with your partner to do it. Its not fair to the child otherwise. It will suck for a few days, and then your kid will sleep (probably just from exhaustion), and then there's often an extinction burst - where their sleep is worse than it was before and its like they rebound. You'll have to dig in and get past that blip, but after that they should be fine. The big key is to stay consistent during future regressions and not backtrack because sleep training gets exponentially harder the older and louder your kid gets. For instance, there was a pretty big regression for both of my kids around 6-7 months and there were a lot of bad naps, needing to nurse and be held a lot before bed, etc. Sure, we helped soothe them and what not, but we kept the routine the same at bedtime and put them down. If they cried, we'd soothe a bit, but as soon as they stopped crying, we did the same lullaby and put them down and walked out. If they cried again, repeat. It SUCKED and I got less sleep during those regressions than a parent would cosleeps would, but it reinforced to our kids that's what the process was and once the regression was over, they went right back to sleeping 12 hours a night and taking great naps. I've never brought them back into our beds or slept in their beds or whatever. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-specific-questions-help#post-2820102 Thu, 03 May 2018 13:10:56 +0000 snarkybiochemist 2820102@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we used the halo sleep sack swaddles with the wings too and tried to transition with one arm out and then just wrapping her middle with both arms out and it was an epic fail, she either wouldn't sleep or would wake herself in a very short time so we just went to a sleep sack no swaddling, so don't be afraid to just quit cold turkey if that seems like it would work best for your kiddo (they are unhelpfully all their own person and like different things) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-specific-questions-help#post-2820095 Thu, 03 May 2018 12:55:06 +0000 Foodnerd81 2820095@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It sounds like sleep training of some sort will be really good for your whole family! </p> <p>Personally, I think I would take away the swaddle at the same time so you don’t have to do this all over again. If she’s in the halo sleep sack with the wings, you can try wrapping that around her chest sort of tightly, so she still has the swaddled feel but has her arms free. That’s how i transitioned my kids and it seemed helpful. But neither of mine ever took a paci so I can’t speak to that at all. When we sleep trained I picked a certain time that I wouldn’t go in and feed before. Checked didn’t really work for my older daughter, she just got more hysterical, so we did extinction. </p> <p>Another important thing to remember- no two babies are alike so you have to do what works for you. My two kids have been such different sleepers since birth. </p> <p>Good luck! It’ll suck but then it will be so much better. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-specific-questions-help#post-2820085 Thu, 03 May 2018 12:25:28 +0000 kayla0416 2820085@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have decided to do some sleep training with my baby. Please don't try to convince me not to, I'm going to completely lose my sanity if I don't get some sleep soon and my baby is also showing signs of sleep deprivation and is not her normal happy self lately. :( I just need some help figuring out exactly how I should do it.</p> <p>History: She will be 5 months on the 14th. She's never been a great sleeper but some times have been worse than others. Newborn days were typical newborn days, but then from about 2.5-3.5 months, things were much better, she would sleep a stretch of 5-8 hours, and was up 1-3 times per night after that initial chunk. Totally doable and I would be so happy if we could get back to that. Over the last month, her sleep has been getting progressively worse. The last 2 nights she has been up every 30-90 minutes. About half the time I am able to pop her paci back in her mouth and she'll fall back asleep, but the other half that doesn't work and I'll have to nurse and/or rock her back to sleep, sometimes taking up to 45 minutes before I can put her back down without her screaming. I am beyond exhausted and ready to do something about it. </p> <p>Questions/Concerns: She is still swaddled (Halo sleep sack with "wings"). Not rolling yet - can roll up on her side, but seems like she has a ways to go before she'll figure out the full roll. During her month of good sleep, I think she really needed the swaddle, but now I'm not convinced it's helping. She occasionally gets her hands up by her mouth and it wakes her up. Seems like she's fighting the swaddle a bit. So question - do I quit swaddling at the same time? We have experimented a bit with taking one arm out, but then she knocks the paci out of her mouth and can't sleep. My gut tells me that we should do both at the same time so she can maybe use her hands to self-soothe, but then I think I'd have to take away the swaddle and the paci, and that seems like a lot of things to take away at the same time. </p> <p>Other info: She did have an ear infection about a month ago, but has had her 4-month appointment and another clinic visit since then and ears were clear both times. She has not been showing the same symptoms of ear infection that she had (fever, pink eye) since then. I was considering starting last weekend but she had a few days in a row where she didn't poop and seemed very uncomfortable from that, so I put it off. That is cleared up now. No other illness that I know of.</p> <p>I think I will start with doing checks (3 min, 5, 10, etc), but I'm not opposed to extinction if necessary. I am not planning on night weaning at this point because I know she's still young for that, but I'd like to get back to 1-2 feedings again. She is in the 73rd percentile for weight and nurses like a champ, so I know that's not an issue AT ALL. She's EBF and I don't want to start food til 6 mo. I might try something like no nursing before 1am? We aim for sleeping by 6:30-7pm, and I have to wake her at 6:15 to get ready and to daycare/work on time. </p> <p>Anyone have tips for me going into this, or want to share their sleep training experiences??</p> <p>Sorry this was so long and rambling, I can hardly put together cohesive thoughts at this point... Thanks if you read it all. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/10-month-old-sleep-training-help-need-motivation#post-2810650 Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:58:50 +0000 amfstubbe 2810650@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hello! </p> <p>We just started sleep training our 10 month old this week. Sleep trained our older son - he was quick to catch on and slept 7pm-7am after 4 days of training him to sleep. This little guy has been a much tougher sleeper since day one, and seems to be stubborn to the core when it comes to this sleep training. He sleeps 2 naps per day, about 1-1.5 hour each. We’re very happy that we’ve worked him up past 40 minute naps and sometimes we even get lucky enough for a 2 hour nap. If he’s had two short naps, we give him an extra nap in the afternoon. The issue is I have fed him at 10 before I go to bed as a dream feed and now it’s really tough to drop. And then he wakes up 4 or so times per night after that. We are doing 10 minute checks on him, and he cries harder and harder every time we go in. :sad: Today he woke up only an hour after bedtime and is still crying 40 minutes later. I guess I just need some encouragement to hang in there. Feeling like it’s impossible this time around!</p> <p>And a question about the pacifier, I only give it to him when he goes to bed but I don’t reinsert it during the checks. Should I? He hasn’t figured out how to bring it to his own mouth while in the crib. </p> <p>His schedule is wake 6-7am (depends a little on the night and also if his big brother wakes him), nap at 9:00 sleep till 10:30, nap at 1:00pm till 2:30ish, bath at 6:15, sleeping by 7pm</p> <p>Thankful for all advice! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-while-roomsharing#post-2793192 Fri, 22 Dec 2017 07:57:57 +0000 smuckers 2793192@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Lest anyone think I got out of sleep training with no trials: last night was a little rough. She had a hard time self soothing once she woke herself up, which she did often due to lack of swaddle.</p> <p>Hopefully the worst is over (and honestly it wasn't *that* bad). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-while-roomsharing#post-2793185 Thu, 21 Dec 2017 23:04:21 +0000 cake2017 2793185@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@codeitall: I did the exact same thing! It worked for us! I’m currently working on sleep training with LO now that he’s in his own room. Hopefully it gets easier! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-while-roomsharing#post-2793182 Thu, 21 Dec 2017 22:03:30 +0000 smuckers 2793182@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@codeitall: thank you so much for your reply! I feel you on having a light sleeper; it definitely makes things more tough!</p> <p>@kitty: yes, I saw your post! We're lucky in that our room configuration is such where we cannot see each other from the bed/crib. </p> <p>Just as a general update: so far this is going so, so, SO much better than I thought. Yesterday she cried for 10 minutes even then slept for 6 hours. I breastfed her, laid her back in the crib, and she just... went to sleep. Just like that. </p> <p>Tonight I decided if we were going to do this, let's do it all the way and we dropped the swaddle. I was/an honestly TERRIFIED of how it would go, since last time we tried she didn't sleep for literally an hour before I gave in and reswaddled. She fussed for literally 1 minute, spent 3 minutes kicking her feet, then promptly fell asleep. My jaw is on the floor. </p> <p>Obviously she was much more ready for this that I was. I LOVED her next to me in the cosleeper, and I'm still a bit gutted that we moved her to her crib. I know it won't be like this every single night, but dammmnnn girl, you're making this transition way harder for mama to back out of. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-while-roomsharing#post-2792983 Wed, 20 Dec 2017 18:45:43 +0000 kitty 2792983@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have recently sleep trained with LO sleeping right near our bed and it ended up not making too much difference except that I had no choice but to hear him crying or fussing. That said, he was most of the way trained already so I haven't had to deal with long periods of night crying. I did post about noise and light reducing options for room sharing with baby and got some great suggestions about folding screens and curtains. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-while-roomsharing#post-2792937 Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:08:45 +0000 codeitall 2792937@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD is 9 months and we are currently sleep training. Well, mostly, kind of, sorta sleep training.</p> <p>We just moved to a 3 bedroom because she was too light of a sleeper to share with her brother or even with us really (ours was a much smaller room than yours though).</p> <p>Frankly, we are working on nap training and the initial laydown training first. Middle of the night wakeups, I tend to bring her to bed, feed her into submission/deep sleep again and then stick her back in the crib. This... is probably not the most efficient approach as she still wakes up a few times a night, but by working on her going to sleep on her own during the day and on the first shift, she had the room to herself. We just had to be super quiet going back in the room and getting in bed.</p> <p>I'm sure eventually she'll start sleeping better :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-while-roomsharing#post-2792894 Wed, 20 Dec 2017 11:27:43 +0000 smuckers 2792894@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Does anyone have any experience with sleep training while they are sharing a room with their baby? My DD is just shy of 7 months old, and has been an Arm's Reach cosleeper attached to our bed for most of her life.</p> <p>We've finally reached the point where I think it's time to move to her crib. Due to the layout of our condo, her nursery is in the master bedroom with us (though it is a large room; I cannot see her in the crib from my bed). I've been dreading moving her to the crib, but for the past week or so my excellent sleeper has been waking up every hour or so after 2am. The only thing that prevents the wake ups is moving her into bed with us, and I'm honestly just not comfortable doing so as my husband (a SAHD) is a very heavy sleeper.</p> <p>I've seen lots of posts on how to sleep train when the babies are in their own room, but does anyone have any experience training when they're in the same room? Probably important to note that she's still swaddled at night (despite my best efforts to train away from it). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-more-formula-but-lots-of-crying#post-2791539 Tue, 12 Dec 2017 17:22:47 +0000 daniellemybelle 2791539@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I agree with others who say to do one change at a time. I'm with you to be consistent when it comes to a change, but you have at least three changes here:</p> <p>-Formula<br /> -Bottle/sleep association<br /> -Bottles</p> <p>That's the order I'd drop them in. I'd switch formula for WCM in bottles and then once it seems like he's cool with that, I'd work on him going to sleep without a bottle - but I'd still do bottles when you give him milk. Once he's made that adjustment, then I'd go to a sippy cup. And be forewarned that if he's a bottle lover, you might have to try a bunch of cups. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-more-formula-but-lots-of-crying#post-2791460 Tue, 12 Dec 2017 12:23:22 +0000 alphagam84 2791460@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Msglass: You can still give milk in the bottle, just do it right before bed and then brush his teeth. We switched like this: 1/4 cow's milk, 3/4 formula for a week, then 50/50 for a week, then 3/4 milk, 1/4 formula for a week, then just milk. It worked really well. Then we started introducing a sippy cup. We would do a sippy cup during the day but a bottle for bedtime as we wanted her to drink a lot and get topped off to help her sleep better through the night. At some point we switched to the sippy cup but I can't remember how long (maybe 2-4 weeks?). We still do milk on it's own (first thing in AM, AM snack, PM snack, and before bed) as she loves milk and would otherwise just drink milk and not eat as much food. We just serve water with meals. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-more-formula-but-lots-of-crying#post-2791444 Tue, 12 Dec 2017 10:37:29 +0000 hummusgirl 2791444@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did a bottle of WCM before bed until LO was around 2. We'd do the bottle, then books, brush teeth and then bed to eliminate the whole tooth decay thing. Our ped was fine with it. You're reminding me that we should probably not give our 2-year-old WCM in the middle of the night without brushing teeth after though - it's only once or twice a week that he doesn't STTN but still... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-more-formula-but-lots-of-crying#post-2791416 Tue, 12 Dec 2017 08:06:47 +0000 Msglass 2791416@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@alphagam84: Because my pediatrician recommended giving him milk with meals and snacks but to use water to put him down for naps and bed since he really only wants he comfort of the bottle. Also I've been nervous about causing tooth decay by continuing to give him milk right before he goes to sleep. Last night when he woke up though I just went ahead and gave him a few ounces of cow's milk. He still was very upset though so we think it could be teething. He only fell asleep again after some Tylenol and more milk. In learning that we'll just have to take this one step at a time. Cold turkey obviously isn't going to work right now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-more-formula-but-lots-of-crying#post-2791385 Mon, 11 Dec 2017 21:11:06 +0000 smores 2791385@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I remember stressing about this transition with DS1 too! He was about 16 months old and I was just over washing bottles and bottle parts - I had also weaned from nursing and he was finally sleeping through the night by that point. So we hid all the bottles and only gave him milk in sippy cups. He didn’t seem to miss them after a few days as long as he didn’t see them. </p> <p>In regards to being hungry at night, I was thinking with DS2 (5 months) that he must be hungry when he woke every 2 hours at night and nursed like crazy but a friend kindly suggested that perhaps it was just a habit - that a lot of babies don’t *need* to eat through the night. That he was eating bc his body was used to eating at that time but he didn’t *need* the calories.</p> <p>Good luck! If it doesn’t seem right for your family now, perhaps try in a few weeks? But I’ve been of the mindet of making switches good turkey...just kind of like ripping off the bandaid. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-more-formula-but-lots-of-crying#post-2791381 Mon, 11 Dec 2017 21:05:05 +0000 alphagam84 2791381@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Why did you only put water in the bottle? Just substitute the formula for whole cow's milk. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-more-formula-but-lots-of-crying#post-2791301 Mon, 11 Dec 2017 14:53:09 +0000 2littlepumpkins 2791301@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We switched cold turkey to WCM then just bottle weaned from there. Disclaimer my son didn't STTN til 18-20 months but he was off of bottles and night feeds not much after 12 months. Idk, if it were me I'd try milk (we even warmed it like his formula) and then worry about the bottles and stuff after. I was pretty laid back about it because my son was my second and at the time we thought he was our last! Good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-more-formula-but-lots-of-crying#post-2791278 Mon, 11 Dec 2017 13:53:22 +0000 helloperidot 2791278@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I feel like I'm on the opposite end of the HB spectrum here-- with DD1 we switched cold turkey from formula to WCM, but didn't drop bottles until closer to two. Neither her pediatrician nor her dentist were concerned about her oral development, so I didn't worry about it. It was nice to navigate one change at a time. </p>