https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:35:33 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-confused#post-2124781 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 21:37:48 +0000 LovelyPlum 2124781@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jump Rope: @luckypenny: @avivoca: @ShootingStar: @catomd00: @Mrs. J: thank you so much!! It helps to hear that not everyone transitions the same way, and that it is OK if the transition time is a little wonky.</p> <p>So I talked to daycare today, and I got some more good information. She can have a sippy there, but only in the part of the room where they eat. only bottles are allowed in the play/sleep area. And since they are on a nutritional program, they offer milk at every meal. So I think my plan is to send 2 sippy cups of milk (flax or almond, I think) and one bottle of frozen BM until my stash runs out. At home, she still usually nurses in the AM, once around 6, one before bed, and once in the middle of the night. They are all pretty short usually, but for now, I will let her do what she wants. She eats solids for 3 meals and a snack, and she's been eating a ton. I'm assuming it will all level out in time, so I guess I will just have to be patient :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-confused#post-2124011 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 09:52:06 +0000 Mrs. J 2124011@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We went from bottle to cup first. He didn't have WCM until maybe 13 or 14 months (had yogurt and cheese though). He drank BM out of a straw cup at three meals and and I nursed AM and PM until our freezer stash ran out. I would have kept nursing but I am pregnant and it was getting painful with his teeth. We dropped night time first and then morning. He was about 14 months by the time we were weaned. We did not mix BM with WCM at all. I think the transition went pretty smoothly! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-confused#post-2124007 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 09:50:18 +0000 catomd00 2124007@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We bottle weaned at 10.5 months - I let daycare deal with it, just said she needed to be on a straw cup full time by one. It took 2 weeks. </p> <p>We mixed BM and WCM until the stash ran out. Luckily she was fine. At daycarr she went from getting 12 oz of BM to 8 oz of WCM. Daycare will sometimes give her more mill that they provide but I asked them to limit it to 12 oz total and then just water. I don't want her having tons of cows milk. Milk is not required if they're getting nutrients from other sources. we nurse on demand at home - usually 2-3x a day when I work, 4-5x when I don't work. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-confused#post-2123997 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 09:45:23 +0000 ShootingStar 2123997@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So here's what we did - around 9m we started ramping up solids. This meant adding 2 snacks, lunch and dinner (all solids). Once we had firmly established dinner, I dropped the evening bottle. It was too difficult to eat dinner then wait for him to get hungry, then feed the bottle, then bedtime. Instead we gave him a sippy of milk with dinner, which he didn't really drink much of at first.</p> <p>D had been getting 4 bottles a day (approx 7, 11, 4, 7). The 7pm had been dropped, and next we dropped the 4pm, which he had started skipping on his own. Then the 11am bottle went. The last to go was the morning bottle (which I switched from formula to WCM around 12m), because it was just so easy for me to pop him in the PnP in our bedroom with a bottle while I got ready. Dropping that bottle meant I had to spend time feeding him breakfast. But around 12.5m we decided we were tired of bottles, so I started feeding him a banana and cheerios instead.</p> <p>As for the milk transition, he gets a ton of dairy/calcium in other ways so I don't stress over his milk intake. He gets a yogurt every morning at daycare, and a cheese stick for afternoon snack. And most days a couple slices of cheese in his lunch. He gets offered a sippy of milk at meals and I think with snacks at daycare. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-confused#post-2123843 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 08:07:56 +0000 avivoca 2123843@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>- We bottle weaned cold turkey. It worked out okay for us. I wasn't super concerned with H getting milk at daycare because at 12 months she was still nursing twice a day. She's not a huge fan of cows milk, so I make sure she gets lots of cheese and yogurt. She prefers straw cups, but I always giver her milk in a take-n-toss sippy because they are easier to clean.</p> <p>- Pump-wise, I started mixing WCM with BM around 11 months because my supply was tanking. Each week, I added less BM until she was drinking mostly WCM. At 12 months and two days, I quit pumping completely.</p> <p>- H was only drinking maybe 9 oz. a day at that time. She also was offered water at meals, and I think the offer milk to her now and she drinks a little bit (not much). Again, I'm not worried about her milk consumption because she eats a lot of dairy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-confused#post-2123804 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 07:38:01 +0000 luckypenny 2123804@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We got rid of all except nighttime bottle for E at 12 months and I think by 17 months or so she dropped her nighttime bottle. I was just sick of washing bottles and buying formula lol. We haven't tried cows milk with all but she also only gets bottles at bedtimes and I'm dreading taking those away because she is such a great sleeper.</p> <p>Good luck! And how the heck are our babies one?! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-confused#post-2123735 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 06:26:02 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 2123735@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LovelyPlum: I didn't BF my oldest, so maybe my advice or experience doesn't apply here - by she took forever to bottle wean and didn't take to cows milk right away. Chloe liked her bottle, end of story. We never mixed formula with milk, so I don't know if that would have helped transition. It also took me forever to find a sippy cup to suit her. I finally came across a cup at Target that had a spout similar to a bottle and that's what ended up doing the trick for us, and by that point she was much closer to 15-16 months I'd guess! I think they were the Nuby brand? I'm trying to think back three years now!</p> <p>They mimicked a bottle which is what worked for her - so she didn't really care what was in it! As she got a but older, we switched to the hard spouts and straw cups. I know a lot of parents swear by straw cups at a younger age, but she just didn't seem into those until she was older. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-confused#post-2123724 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 06:08:48 +0000 LovelyPlum 2123724@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PurplePeony: Thank you!! I think she is struggling with all of the transitions at once. I think we are going back to bottles at school for now and work on the milk transition first. The only reason I did it in the first place was so that she could dissociate the bottle from BM. I think I just need to remember that she is changing so rapidly now, that it might be different in a few weeks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-confused#post-2123664 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 01:33:12 +0000 PurplePeony 2123664@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DD wasn't MSPI but dairy gave her reflux so I stayed off obvious sources until she was a little over a year. I pumped until she was about 13 months and had a frozen stash so she was mainly on BM until 14 months, but started a gradual transition to WCM for about a month between 13 and 14 months. She took about 10 oz of BM at first until it gradually got replaced. We bottle weaned for a couple weeks after her first birthday -- she had been trying sippy and straw cups at home for awhile but wasn't cinvinced about them, but at daycare they started giving her water in a sippy and she still had bottles of BM. Then they moved her BM into a sippy but would transfer it back to a bottle if really necessary. Finally, we took home all her bottles so she could only have liquids in the school's cups. A couple weeks after that, we knew she was finally okay with WCM so now she just gets whatever school is serving (milk or water). During the same time, we started really pushing straw cups on her at home, as well, and she finally started getting better at drinking from them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-confused#post-2123648 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 00:50:54 +0000 LovelyPlum 2123648@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Please help me understand how this whole transition to milk, sippy cups, and solids works-I'm lost. Here's where we are right now: </p> <p>*LO will be one in 2 weeks (just HOW?!). Until now, she has been drinking BM exclusively at school. I send 15 ounces a day generally, but the last few weeks, she has only been taking 10. She eats solids like a champ-3 meals and one snack, generally. She still nurses a lot at night, though (which I know is good, but...sigh). She is also MSPI. </p> <p>*I have been trying to/am pretty much pump weaned. I had a huge stash that I am working through, and it will get me to her first birthday. I've been trying to mix it with different things-flax milk, coconut milk, fortified almond milk-but she hates it all and will not drink mixed milk. As a result, i decided to send 10 ounces of BM to school, along with her lunch. She usually takes a bottle right before she naps there, so I figured 2 naps = 2 bottles a day. She also gets water with meals.<br /> *Today, they told me that the 10 ounces isn't enough, that she wanted more when she finished her second bottle. Should it be enough? If not, I'm in trouble, because I don't have enough stash for 15 ounces a day. When do we go off of that?</p> <p>*We are also currently trying to transition her away from bottles. She is really good with a straw cup, and she has one at daycare. The thing is, though, it seems that her teachers (whom we love) are giving her sippy milk at mealtime and pouring it back into a bottle for naps. I don't know, maybe we jumped the gun on bottle weaning?</p> <p>*One last complication is that we are working on re-introducing dairy. Thus far, she has been great with it, but we will know for sure on Monday, when we head to the GI. I've given her yogurt, which she loves, and a bit of cheese. I also bought goats milk today to see what she thought. She drank a bunch of it before pushing it away, but I think that is largely because she only wants to drink from the source when I'm around.</p> <p>So, given all of that, here are my questions:</p> <p>-should I be bottle weaning her at this point?<br /> -how much breast milk does your 12 month old get?<br /> -if the transition from pumped milk was rocky, how did you deal? How long until it got better?</p> <p>Thank you for helping me figure this out!! </p>