[blparent] Holding a bottle independently?

Wed Feb 11 00:12:58 UTC 2009

Keep trying.  Don't give up.  I would go to a sippy cup as soon as possible.
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From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Holding a bottle independently?


> She'll be a year in about three weeks.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds 
> water."--Swedish proverb
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> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] Holding a bottle independently?
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>> Jo elizabeth, how old is she?  Not a year yet, right? V
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
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>> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 9:55 PM
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Holding a bottle independently?
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>>> 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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>>> 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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