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02-23-2013 at 10:01 AM
aeh72
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Dropping First Bottle of Morning

We're at 11 months now and as we head towards 1 year and switching from formula to WCM, I'm wondering if it's time to eliminate DS's first bottle of the morning.  His morning routine is wake up around 7:15, get a bottle, head to daycare, and then have breakfast (e.g., fruit with oatmeal, yogurt) around 8:30-9:00 a.m.  Then, he gets another morning bottle around 11:30.

On the weekends if he sleeps in, I don't always give him is bottle in his room right when he wakes up. I change him, bring him downstairs, let him play for a bit and then give him his bottle - maybe 30 minutes after he wakes. He always takes the whole thing, but I'm wondering if he'll miss it if we skip that bottle and just go straight to breakfast? I haven't experimented yet but I'm wondering if anyone else has eliminated (or tried to eliminate) the first morning bottle and how that worked out?

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02-23-2013 at 11:08 AM
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DS is only 9 months but he hardly has any interest in his morning bottle anymore. I offer him 4 8oz bottles during the day plus three meals. When he wakes up I wait about a half hour then give him his bottle, and if I'm lucky he takes half but will gobble up his breakfast!

I would try and skip it on the weekend, if you want to, just so you can see how it goes?


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02-23-2013 at 11:57 AM
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Last weekend my sister had DS and she just gave him food instead of a bottle.  When we finally gave him a bottle he didn't take much so you might be on to something.  I think I might trying that as well.

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02-23-2013 at 1:20 PM
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I gave DS milk mixed with formula in a straw cup with his breakfast this morning. He drank 2-3 oz less than normal, but ate more breakfast which was awesome! We are weaning off bottles cold turkey, but slowly off of formula. I don't plan on getting rid of the morning milk though, just giving him breakfast with milk shortly after waking.

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02-23-2013 at 6:34 PM
aeh72
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Thanks everyone! I think we'll give it a go.  It feels like it's time. Probably start next weekend so we can see if it works before asking daycare to start doing it.  I gave DS some formula in a sippy cup today and he drank it right up so I'm hoping that means the transition off bottles won't be too rough. 

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02-24-2013 at 11:57 AM
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I just dropped it one day about a month ago and dd never looked back.  Now we get ready and head to daycare.  She gets breakfast shortly after arriving.  The rest of her schedule is roughly bottle about an hour later at 10ish, nap at 11, lunch at 12, bottle at 2, snack at 4, bottle at 5, I pick her up, dinner at 630, bottle before bed.

We have enough frozen BM to make it almost exactly to a year.  We will start introducing WCM in sippys. WCM = sippy, BM = bottle. We will see how it plays out :)




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02-25-2013 at 7:24 AM
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great post!  DD is almost 10 months and I have been thinking about how to start dropping bottles!  What sucks is that I have a 45 min drive from house to daycare... I don't want her to hungry in the car, so I still have to figure out what to give her in the am that won't interfere with our hectic morning (i'm already waking up at 5:10!)



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02-25-2013 at 11:30 AM
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I've been wondering the same thing.  Part of me thinks I should give him breakfast instead (no brainer, right?), but he gets breakfast at 8:00 at daycare.  So...does he get 2 breakfast's?  One at 6am (when we're rushing out the door) and one at 8 at daycare?  

 

Tricky business...

 

I should note, he wakes up MAD & hungry, so skipping it all together is probably not an option.

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