https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:26:11 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-help-1#post-834539 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 22:26:57 +0000 pregnantbee 834539@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@junebugmama: Sorry, I forgot exact date. I just know you we're a fellow Junebug Mama on WB (haha like your HB name). Yes, I also remember that you want to be an LC -- that's awesome. Thanks again. It's all so confusing.</p> <p>@regberadaisy: I'll definitely have to follow his lead bc he wouldn't let me rush him on anything else either. Had to be swaddled until he was good and ready even though I was ready to stop 4 months earlier! Thanks for empathizing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-help-1#post-834507 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 21:50:25 +0000 regberadaisy 834507@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@pregnantbee: seriously confusing! And everyone you talk to offers a different advice. I think every child reacts differently to this change so def do what you feel is right. :) as long as LO is still gaining weight appropriately you're all good. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-help-1#post-834502 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 21:48:25 +0000 junebugmama 834502@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@pregnantbee: My baby is one!!! He came in May and I had already picked this name lol. It's crazy how fast it has gone. </p> <p>I'm in the process of becoming an LC :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-help-1#post-834499 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 21:46:22 +0000 pregnantbee 834499@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@junebugmama: Makes complete sense. Thanks for taking the time to share your wisdom :) (Our babies are almost 1 -- aaah!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-help-1#post-834353 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 20:26:11 +0000 junebugmama 834353@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>substituting solids for breast milk is the best way. So prior to 12 months you (or if you want to continue bf'ing) you would give breast milk then solids. As you start to want to wean, you want to try offering solids with water, and then breast milk. Basically subbing in the other items for bm. You never have to offer cow's milk if you don't want to, but you shouldn't until a year at the very least. Does that make sense? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-help-1#post-833439 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:42:34 +0000 pregnantbee 833439@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: I seriously need an instruction manual just for this breastfeeding thing. SO much stuff to know to get started and make it work and feel comfortable. Now I need to know how to undo it all :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-help-1#post-833437 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:41:22 +0000 mediagirl 833437@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@pregnantbee: Hugs. It is SO confusing. I'm just taking it one day at a time and doing what "feels" right. Once again I'd like to ask, "where is my instruction manual??" :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-help-1#post-833373 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:19:45 +0000 pregnantbee 833373@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@regberadaisy: @winniebee: @mediagirl: Thanks for all the advice and sample menus. This is so overwhelming, but really I just think that I'm not good with all of these transitions. Better get used to it fast!</p> <p>I'll try asking daycare to experiment with separating bottle feeding and meals. I always thought you are supposed to feed a bottle then follow up with meals, but maybe that was more geared toward 6 mo to be sure that baby is still drinking enough BM or formula?</p> <p>The other week, daycare had started offering food first, then bottle, and his milk consumption went down to about 9 oz instead of 12. So obviously he was getting full from solids. I thought that it was a problem since breastmilk is still supposed to be more nutritious than foods I can offer, so I asked them to switch back to milk first then food. So we're still at about 12 oz. per day at daycare plus whatever solids he eats.</p> <p>This is all pretty confusing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-help-1#post-832513 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:46:44 +0000 mediagirl 832513@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@pregnantbee: some items I have sent to daycare:</p> <p>Breakfast: yogurt, applesauce, banana, waffles, pancakes, eggs (scrambled or hard boiled), sausage with eggs. cheesy eggs. I usually send one protein and one fruit. Sometimes I will send carbs with a fruit or yogurt (or fruit yogurt - I'll put frozen blueberries in her yogurt). </p> <p>Lunch: Leftovers! Today and yesterday it was pasta salad (chicken, hard boiled eggs, pasta, celery, mayo and I cut everything up super small), frozen peas and mandarin oranges (from those single serve cups). M LOVES pork tenderloin so I make one of those a week and send pork twice a week. With the pork I'll send a veggie, fruit and sometimes a carb (if she didn't get one for breakfast) like goldfish or a ritz cracker or two. Oh! Have you done beans? M loves black beans. She will scarf those down like it's her job. On a bean day I'll send black beans, broccoli, carrots and rice for lunch.</p> <p>Snack: Cheese stick, applesauce, puree pack, hard boiled egg, fruit (orange slices or blueberries).</p> <p>I like @winniebee's idea of spacing bottles and food, too. At least a half hour in between. Maybe try offering food first, then bottle so he gets used to getting calories from food instead of so much from milk? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-help-1#post-832477 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:37:37 +0000 winniebee 832477@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ok one suggestion would be to alternate breastmilk bottles with meals - if he's just eaten a big meal he probably isn't as hungry for the bottle. This is what our schedule now looks like (but, he is FF)</p> <p>6am - wake up, 5-6 oz bottle<br /> 8 am - breakfast at daycare (yogurt/fruit/cheerios)<br /> 9:30 am - 6 oz bottle<br /> 11:30 am - lunch of protein, veggie, cheese, starch<br /> 1:00 - 6 oz bottle<br /> 3:30/4 - snack time - puree pouch, crackers<br /> 6 - dinner - similar to lunch<br /> 7 - 6 oz bottle</p> <p>I've not really worked on offering milk with meals because we're testing cow's milk right now. I'm hoping to get rid of the bottle soon though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-help-1#post-832473 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:37:10 +0000 regberadaisy 832473@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@pregnantbee: I don't think spacing bottles is a flawed logic! But if you can't ingest more than x oz in one sitting then he's not consuming as much. I mean generally speaking the theory is they will eat more solids to compensate for it. </p> <p>I've been gradually dropping my pumping session due to supply issues. And stopped last Monday.<br /> Been mixing cow's milk with formula slowly. Finally onto 1oz formula/4 oz cow's milk. I think by next wee we will start doing some bottles of just cow's milk. When she's on all cow's milk we will change to sippy. Then eventually transition to just offering cow's milk at meal and snack times. </p> <p>So this is her schedule:<br /> 5:30a/6a nurse<br /> 6:45a ish breakfast this morning was a chinese breakfast pastry<br /> 9am ish 5oz bottle then snack<br /> 11:30a ish lunch today is pan seared pork loin, pineapples, edamame, rice pilaf<br /> 12:30p ish 5 oz bottle<br /> 2:30pm afternoon snack today is a 4oz pouch<br /> 3:30/4:00 5 oz bottle<br /> 6:00pm dinner today will be shrimp pasta<br /> 7:00 nurse for bedtime</p> <p>She's 13 months and I'm comfortable doing this bc her eating has almost doubled! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-help-1#post-832457 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:33:24 +0000 pregnantbee 832457@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks for the feedback!</p> <p>@winniebee: Totally makes sense, though I thought I had to wait until a year before offering cow's milk. We're at 11.5 mo now.</p> <p>@regberadaisy: @plantains: I'm spacing the bottles because I thought this was how you "drop" a feeding? Clearly I'm clueless! And I thought that the number of feedings need to correlate to the number of times I pump? Flawed logic?</p> <p>@Freckles: He eats a LOT. But I think I now have to provide even more solids because he's started really crawling and pulling up. He must be burning more calories.</p> <p>@mediagirl: He eats all the time! I seriously don't know where he puts it all.</p> <p>Sample daycare day:</p> <p>6 or 7a: nurse<br /> 8 or 9a at daycare: pancakes or whatever they're cooking, a whole banana, other fruit<br /> breastmilk whenever he wakes from nap<br /> ~12 or 1: 4 oz breastmilk then lunch of pasta with meat/tomato sauce, peas, more fruit<br /> ~3-4: snack of puffs/yogurt melts or cheese (though sometimes he doesn't want a cheese stick)<br /> 6:30p: nurse</p> <p>We still haven't figured out how to work in dinner for him bet. 6:15-7 when I get home from work and he goes to bed.</p> <p>And I think I need more suggestions for what to send to daycare that is nutritious and something that he will like. (And is easy to prepare in my limited time!)</p> <p>Thanks! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-help-1#post-832381 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:16:45 +0000 mediagirl 832381@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Does he eat all of the food you send to daycare? Does he eat well for you on the weekends? How often does he eat solids?</p> <p>I'm weaning, as well. Here is our current schedule:<br /> 6am: nurse<br /> 6:15am (we leave the house at 6:40): banana and sippy of water<br /> 8am: breakfast of 3oz yogurt + waffles or one scrambled egg and 3oz applesauce. Sippy of milk (1/2 bm, 1/2 wm).<br /> 11:30am: lunch of peas, pork, pasta salad and orange slices. Sippy of milk.<br /> 2:30pm: Snack of cheese stick + fruit of some type. Sippy of milk<br /> 5pm: Nurse<br /> 5:30pm: Dinner of protein and veggie, sometime carb. Sippy of water or milk<br /> 6:30pm: Nurse</p> <p>Daycare offers her water throughout the day and she gets just one sippy of 8oz of milk at daycare. She won't drink more than that. We cut out bottles this week b/c she refused them last week when she was sick. Before she got sick, I started mixing the bm in the bottles with whole milk and had just started sending one sippy and two bottles (she used to get three bottles). The plan was for this week to go to 1 bottle and the week after to no bottles. </p> <p>Maybe he's just not filling up on solids and needs the extra milk still? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-help-1#post-832347 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:07:15 +0000 Freckles 832347@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Your LO may not be able to take in that much in one sitting. Could you try offering formula for one of the bottles instead (if he takes it)? I know with weaning you either need to replace the bottles with formula or cow's milk, or with more solids.</p> <p>LO is almost 14 months and still does not take cow's milk. I nurse her twice a day (morning/night) but i know she's not getting a lot of her nutrition from my milk. But, she eats A TON of food. Daycare workers always comment on how much she eats, and how that's good despite the fact that she refuses cow's milk. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-help-1#post-832327 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:03:10 +0000 plantains 832327@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>why are you spacing out the bottles if you still have the same amount of milk to give? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-help-1#post-832319 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:01:35 +0000 regberadaisy 832319@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He's probably hungry since he is taking in less breastmilk. Why are you spacing out the bottles? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-help-1#post-832312 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 09:59:13 +0000 winniebee 832312@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@pregnantbee: If he's not eating large qualities of solids, he might truly be hungry. I think most ppl offer cow's milk or another product in lieu of breastmilk for meals. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-help-1#post-832106 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:56:35 +0000 pregnantbee 832106@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not offering cow's milk yet. For solids, he gets a variety of fruits, veggies, and protein. I send cheese that he's hit or miss on eating. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-help-1#post-832090 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:50:30 +0000 winniebee 832090@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What are you offering for solids? Are you offering cow's milk instead of bottles? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/weaning-help-1#post-832087 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:49:36 +0000 pregnantbee 832087@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're almost at a year, and I really want to stop pumping at work and continue BF morning and night for awhile longer. I'm now trying to only pump twice at work (down from pumping 3x). LO usually gets a 4-oz bottle every 3 hrs at daycare, and I asked them to feed him every 4 hrs instead. Silly me thought he'd take larger amounts for each feeding. Nope, so he only had 8 oz instead of 12.. DH said LO was inconsolably screaming an hour after going to bed and was fine after getting another 4 oz.</p> <p>What am I doing wrong? </p>