[blparent] Holding a bottle independently?

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Hi Kliph, glad to see you on this list.  I'm doing well, keeping busy.

I tried diluted apple juice in a sippy cup, but Sarah wasn't interested. 
She drank the apple juice once out of her bottle, but she won't touch juice 
now, apple or pear.  She wants nothing to do with it.  I plan to stop 
pumping breastmilk in the next few weeks, and wean her over from formula and 
breastmilk to whole milk.  But so far, she isn't even interested in holding 
her own bottle.  She's wanting to feed herself finger foods and hold a 
spoon, but not the bottle.  That's still Mom's job.

Jo Elizabeth

"Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds 
water."--Swedish proverb
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kliph A M" <phantom3919 at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 7:59 PM
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Hi, it's Kliph from your old blind feelings group.  How have you been?  I
have 3 little ones and 5 older ones, and all of the ones I raised were off
the bottle by the time they were 10 months.  Most of them saw us drinking
from cups and wanted to try, only one I had to push a little bit, but once
you show them that it's easy to do, then they want to try it also.  Try
using a sippy cup with a straw to start with, and then gradually move them
up to smaller cups without tops.  Good luck!

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-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 6:47 PM
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Subject: [blparent] Holding a bottle independently?

Hi.  According to the books I've read, most babies should be off the bottle
by their first birthday.  I'm not one who has to do everything by the book,
so if Sarah takes longer than that, I don't have a problem with it.  She
doesn't have any teeth yet, so it isn't like I have to worry about mouth
troubles.  But she isn't even the slightest bit interested in holding a
bottle by herself, or in drinking from a cup or a sippy.  Is there anything
I can do to encourage her, or if I just wait, will she come to it all on her
own?

Thanks,
Jo Elizabeth

"Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds
water."--Swedish proverb
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