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FROM BOTTLE TO CUP

Visiting pedea every time was becoming stressful for me as he was asking me to wean adhi 🤗coz he is a thumb sucker n according to him his sucking habit will gravitate if I don't wean; his bf (breast feeding n bottle feeding both in my case), it was such a stressful phase for me coz I I am a paranoid mother😁. I will listen to every person advice m most of them will be like don't worry he will wean by himself but whennnnnnn...Coz I have seen 4 years kid drinking from bottle n they r not ready to accept glass and I don't want to face that same problem; Or force feed him with glass which resulted into me bathing in glasses of milk n he 😥 he is not; accepting anything but bottle phwwww...;

It was like man I should have listened to my pedea earlier he was suggesting me to use spoon feeding instead of bottle feeding but everyone was saying he is just too small he will get choke so I ignored my pedea n it was my biggest mistake so my first advice is listen to your pedea he is expert don't ignore him

;;;;;;; After all this I decided to find a way to wean him; properly without irritating him n me too much so I used transition method I named it myself😁 coz it's about transitions from one bottle to other n then finally cup

What I observe about my kid is that first of all he has to leave his sucking habit and he hates smell of milk he can differentiate between milk n buttermilk just by seeing it, so I use hard spout cup which he refused initially so I stopped giving him bottle feed completely for some days n in day time I started to give him water in that sippy cup so that he can learn how to drink from that n slowly he started to drink milk from same cup but after resisting it for some time; I adopted same formula in every transition phase n it worked for me n finally he start drinking from glass 😄

; POINTS TO REMEMBER

🍼Don't try to introduce new type of bottle too soon coz it can irritate baby

🍼use same bottle in day time to give him water so that he can learn how to use it it will take a day or two

🍼you can skip or add some steps according to your child

🍼you can use other milk products instead of milk to fulfill his daily milk requirement like cheese, cottage cheese, yogurt, kheer, biscuit n milk, milk dalia etc

🍼you have to be tough coz it's not easy sometimes he will cry for bottle not coz he is hungry but coz he has become habitual of sucking

🍼its easy to wean your kid around one coz till then his milk requirement become 400-500 ml a day so you can give him other things to eat so that he don't wake up in night for feed

STEPS

👉BREASTFEED - BOTTLE FEED

👉BOTTLE - HARD OR SOFT SPOUT (according to your kids preference)

👉HARD SPOUT - STRAW SIPPY CUP

👉STRAW SIPPY CUP- STRAW

( give him straw to drink; milk from glass coz he will become habitual of milk smell, which I noticed my baby hates in drinking milk from glass)

👉STRAW - GLASS

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; It's not necessary that if my kid have to go through this process every kid has to, may be your kid will wean from bottle to cup by itself without much hassle I tried but failed badly so I tried this method n he start drinking from glass when he was 13 month and at least now I have one less thing to worry about🤗