[blparent] Holding a bottle independently?

[Tammy, Paul and Colyn]

Hi,

If she's eating finger food and using a spoon well, then I don't see the 
problem here.  I know what all the books say and what kids should be doing 
at 1 or 2, but sometimes I think they worry parents unnecessarily.  If she 
won't hold the bottle or use a sippy cup, hold the bottle for her, and don't 
worry about a sippy cup at all right now.  It might be a  security thing for 
her, and she might like the close time with you.  Also, you can tell me to 
mind my own business if you want, but why stop feeding breast milk?  Why not 
just continue offering it to her and letting her wean herself when she's 
ready?

Tammy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 11:55 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Holding a bottle independently?


> 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>
> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 7:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Holding a bottle independently?
>
>
> 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
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> 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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