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 Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:15 am
So, Zoie is almost a year old. (Wheee Yay Omg! Woohooo!) and as of last month she began to refuse her bottles. (Booo. D: ) When I say refuse I mean she crys and screams if I try and give it too her. I'm fine with the whole no more bottle it's the fact that she now refuses her formula as well.
I have attempted many times giving the formula in a sippy cup, it is throw in the floor and screaming like that of a banshee from hell spills from the child's mouth much like what formula she took it. She wont drink it no matter how much I water it down, or how pretty the sippy is.
She has also switched back to hating lump foods. Now unless it's purred to water she wont touch it.
gonk Someone fix baby please! She needs formula until a year or longer right?
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Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 2:59 pm
How close is she to a year? I know with the ped's permission with my oldest, I started gradually weaning from formula to milk about 11 months.
Does she see you make it? Maybe if she sees you pretend to put something else in it? Maybe a different type of sippy? My kids never got the regular ones and had to use the ones with a straw. If she throws a fit, take it away, give her a breather, and have her sit down and try again perhaps.
I know about a year is when some get picky about texture.
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Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:56 pm
She's only got a few days left until a year. gonk Our doc said to keep her on it until she was a year and 3-5 months. use the time to slowly send her over to it apparently.
You know, that could be it... this formula is really really clumpy. And she hates clumpy stuff. I'll put it threw a strainer and mix in some pedisure.
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Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:55 pm
When my son was about to turn a year he decided he didn't like anything that was lumpy at all. He went from eating those soft cooked veggies and fruits to refusing them and only wanting to eat things like pureed soups and yogurt.
At 11 months, he decided he needed to nurse only once a day for five minutes, so I can understand the frustration. I think he was a couple weeks shy of one year when I started introducing cows milk so I could keep him hydrated.
If straining her formula doesn't work, you can try talking to her pediatrician for other advice and tips.
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Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:05 am
My daughter was fully weaned off both formula and bottles by 1 year per her pediatrician. I started slowly adding whole milk with formula for three months. I fought over sippy cups for a bit, but happily she settled for the cheapest cups I could find.
Everything I've read says around a year old for weaning. As for food pickiness, my daughter decided that she didn't want babyfood as soon as she started getting "Big People Food".
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Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 12:28 pm
First of all, happy birthday to your daughter!
Second, I recently started slowly weaning my son (he'll be a year next Monday) from bottles to sippies. We had a couple sippies with a hard plastic spout, and a couple with a soft one that is more of a bottle-feeling, with a sippy shape. I've found that he doesn't quite get the hang of the hard, hard plastic ones, so what I'm doing is using the soft squishy ones first. Nuby makes a fantastic soft sippy. I also got him a Playtex sippy with a spout that's harder, but still squishable. He's working his way from bottle, to soft sippy, to harder sippy, to plastic sippy. So far it seems to be working.
Maybe that's her issue? Do you just have hard plastic sippies, or do you have squishy ones?
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 11:45 am
She has a rainbow of variety's, hard, soft, silicon everything. And she drinks from them all like a champ, makes me happy I have such an easy baby. crying
I fixed our problem, I make the milk and add 1 1/2 ounces of original pedisure and BAM. Milk cup is gone. At night I give her a strawberry one thou... ninja
I'm slowly trying to get it to just one once of the stuff but the doctor said I could try putting her on milk soon. Then he hung up and didn't tell me what kind of milk how much or anything. crying gonk
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:20 pm
They say children should drink whole milk until the age of 5. At least I think it was until 5.
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Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 7:14 am
I've read that it's just whole milk. Not skim or anything. We give Aden 2%. One of his cousins gets homo milk (and her parents are very a**l about that), and his other cousin gets homo at home and 2% everywhere else.
I don't think there's a problem with treating her to some strawberry milk sometimes. We just bought some strawberry syrup for milk, and I think we'll give Aden a taste of it!
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Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 2:43 pm
It's until they're two. That's really important for brain development and growth. I mean, as long as whole milk isn't their main source of this, it shouldn't be an issue. It's easier to have an older kid switch to 2% a bit early than a baby just switching from formula/breastmilk at a year With a ped's okay, I switched Liam over to 2% a couple months before he was 2.
I take it homo milk is homogenized milk? Not to sound stupid here, but isn't most of the milk you get at the store homogenized anyways?
http://parenting.ivillage.com/baby/bnutrition/0,,3vvq,00.html
And hey, you can always do the carnation instant breakfast packets too. I don't see a big issue with a little strawberry or chocolate in the milk. If it gets them to drink it, I'm all for it.
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Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 8:10 pm
Yeah she mostly gets that at night as a treat for bedtime, seems to help her get to sleep too. Problem with syrups is the amount of sugars they have, looking at it over all it's better for her to have the pedisure mix for the less sugar + more nutrients. I think nestquick(?) has less sugar but for now I'll just stick with this stuff.
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 4:19 pm
I'm pretty sure homo means homogenized... but that's just one kind of milk at the store. Do you mean pasteurized, maybe? I know all milk and juice and whatever is pasteurized...
Aden had no issues whatsoever going from breastmilk to formula to 2% milk. I guess I'm just lucky.
Now we're trying to work the bottles out of his day. We're trying to go to sippies only. I'm hoping it goes just as well.
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 7:16 pm
If I remember right, Chat is in Canada. Might be different there. Which I'd be curious to know if when you buy milk if all the fat is on top then since the homongenizing process prevents that. Pasturization sterilizes and removes bacteria. Stateside, I believe all of our milk is pasturized and homogenized.
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Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:30 pm
Nope, milk's not like that here.
Homo milk, I think is less fatty than 2% or whatever. At Aden's 12 month shots today, the nurse said neither homo or 2% is better than the other. The fat in 2% or whatever doesn't really make a difference.
I just think homo milk tastes yucky. Ha ha
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 6:32 pm
I'm pretty sure you can start him on 2% milk by now. Just ween him off. @ first, my 2 year old REFUSED to switch to her sippy cup, and would scream and cry for her
"bah bah". (bottle) So Michael and I put away the cup for a while, and like 2 months later, she loved her cup. We bought her one that was the same color as our big people cups, and she thought she was a big girl! Just give 'em time! Before you know it, they'll be sipping like big kids!
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