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Hi, I just wanted to update.

Since I posted I started mixing his bottles with 4oz of formula and 2-3oz of wcm. He took it fine and hasn’t had any reaction (he’s on alimentum so I was a little cautious, but it was a nonissue).

Well I never had the guts to do a bigger ratio of milk to formula. I was reading how important it is to wait and blah blah blah so I chickened out.

Well yesterday he flat out refused his 2 afternoon bottles 11am and 3pm. So after the 3pm I called the ped and asked if I can just not care at this point. He’s 12 days away from being 1yo. She said absolutely, he doesn’t need bottles or formula at this point because he’s so close. She said I can stop both now if I want, I just have to worry about hydration so offering lots of water or wcm in a straw cup all day.
I knew all of this from my 1st but the idea of going sort of cold turkey and before 1 got in my head because I’m so “by the books” for so many things.
So what I’ve landed on is no more formula and only a night time bottle of wcm. I decided I want to keep the night time bottle before the trip because I don’t want to go into it with a changed variable when enough will be changed already. Plus I don’t want to worry about dehydration on a trip and I think if he’s at least getting a night bottle of milk and sipping water through the day, he’ll be fine.
This morning we did the 4/2 split bottle before I decided. I won’t do the 11 or 3 today and instead put some wcm in a straw cup and see if he’s interested. If not I’ll make sure to offer lots of water all day. Tonight I’ll do a bottle that’s like 1oz formula and 5oz wcm just so I can feel like I transitioned vs cold turkey
Tomorrow we’ll do ONLY one bedtime bottle since that’s the only one he really seems to drink without issue every day. I’ll try all wcm in that bottle.
We leave Thursday AM for our trip so I plan to take a couple small scoops of emergency formula. We can buy more down there if shit hits the fan (literally or figuratively). And I’ll bring 2 bottles. We’ll have a kitchen in our suite so I can wash one bottle a day no problem and have 1 backup.
And I got a few single serve cartons of shelf stable milk. All I could find was 2% but I’ll look again for whole and if I can’t find it then oh well. A couple days of 2% won’t kill him. Yeah, I’m livin on the edge.

Anyway I just updated in case anyone as neurotic as me looks for this in the future. The thought of being done with bottles and formula FOREVER in the very near future feels so good.

@jhd: omg having only two bottles to wash today felt amazing. Usually we have 4 and for some reason 2 felt like wayyyy less than 4!
I still felt a little worried all day about him not getting enough food or liquid. But I’m like “hello you did this before. They say to drop bottles at a year. This is what youre supposed to do”. And just repeated that over and over. I’m hoping if I keep giving him water he’ll slowly drink more and more. He just has a few sips all day long but I know my older did that too and it just took a little time.

@jhd: it really is funny. The amnesia we have. In so many ways I feel more confident and things have been much easier this time around. But there are a few things where I still feel like such a newb

@delight: that’s always been something I’ve been afraid of (not like SCARED, you know what I mean). My sisters kids all took a bedtime bottle till like 3! And it’s not like they aren’t perfectly healthy and well adjusted now, it just seems like a lot more work than necessary

@periwinklebee: it’s the ONE time in this whole year that his indifference for bottles has felt like a benefit! You’ll see I made other posts and comments over the last year about how stressful it was that he didn’t drink a ton from bottles but now I’m like “was this a blessing in disguise all along???” This morning I did a bottle of all wcm and he didn’t even blink. He drank it down. And he’s on alimentum which is VERRRY different than milk in terms of taste and he totally didn’t even care.
Didn’t notice yesterday’s two bottles were missing.

I’m going to keep the AM and PM bottles of wcm for now just to ease my mind of dehydration going into our trip. Once weren’t back hopefully he’ll be even more into the straw cup and we can at least drop AM.