[blparent] Holding a bottle independently?

[Veronica Smith]

Jo elizabeth, how old is she?  Not a year yet, right? V
----- 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 9:55 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>
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> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 7:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Holding a bottle independently?
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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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