i need help weaning my 10 month old?

Question

i breastfeed and need to go back to work she has never taken a bottle and still nurses 4x a day also i never have left her any suggestions

Answer 1

You'll want to continue providing her with breastmilk (or formula) for a couple more months. The AAP recommends nursing to *at least* 12 months and the also suggest no cow's milk until 12 months. Even once you go back to work, there are ways you can combine breastfeeding and working.

How much longer until you have to go back to work? How many hours/days will you be apart? Who will be watching her while you work?

Have you tried offering her a soft spout sippy (Avent makes a good one) instead of a bottle? Have someone other than you offer the bottle or sippy to her.

What about having her take her solid meals while you are apart? Could she take a sippy of expressed breastmilk, formula or a little water during the time you are apart and then nurse when you are home? Many babies will "reverse cycle" like this.

Answer 2

I'm also going back to work after 8 mos of nursing my baby boy. What I'm doing is offering the sippy cup with breastmilk instead of the bottle. There is no law that says a baby has to take a bottle, especially one being almost a year old. They have to learn to drink from a sippy cup anyway right? Let someone else feed her about once a day depending on when you are going back to work. Can you pump at work? That will keep your milk supply stable. Good luck sweetie, you don't have to stop giving her breastmilk. She won't like the taste of formula, can't go from sweet milk to nasty milk so it's best to keep nursing her.

Answer 3

Starting using both formula and breast milk. Gradually increasing the amount of formula as you go. If your still feeding 4 times a day you may need to anyway or add moree solids to settle the babies tummy so they need less.
Oh and putting tabasco sauce or anything like that on your breast is just cruel. As well as hot sauce probably giving you a rash. I mean its a nasty trick on an adult why do it to your infant.

PS I don't know about anyone else but I am no damned primate/monkey!!

Answer 4

your child should choose when to wean. it's unnatural and harmful to do otherwise. WHO recommends two years minimum nursing.

Babies suffer horrifically when separated from their mothers. Because it is utterly unnatural for a primate infant/toddler to be away from mother, the child has evolved to experience your abscence as life threatening. Her brain will flood with stress hormones that will impair learning and put her at risk for depression and anxiety.

The day care ladies will lie that she doesn't miss you - but you know what - when you cry and cry and no one comes, what do you do? You stop. So will your baby. She will stop when she learns that she cannot make anything happen, that she is stuck in a world where her needs are unimportant. Then, she'll stop crying and everyone will call her a good baby. And your relationship will be forever harmed.

She evolved to need you. All day long she will long for you, you will not come, and she will learn that you do not care what she needs or wants. You can pretend all you want that she will not learn this message, but you will only be fooling yourself.

Infant and toddler day care is damaging. It's abuse and neglect. Please please please do a better job as a mother and refuse to subject your baby to such a nightmare existance.

Really, truly, we poor women are lied to so by the media, told that abandoning and abusing and neglecting our babies is okay, even healthy. What a horrific lie. My heart is weeping for your poor baby.

Answer 5

if she's ten months i wouldn't suggest moving her to a bottle, just skip that whole headache of weening her from the bottle and go straight for the soft nipples sippy cup. luv n'care makes a good one called "nuby" and they're only like 94cents at walmart.
start by putting her in the position she's in when you nurse, and offer her the cup. if she doesn't take it the first couple of times, that's fine, but i wouldn't let her nurse...let her know that if she wants milk, it comes from the cup now.
let her see you pump...she's aware enough now to know what's going on. she'll see you pump, then put it in the cup, and know that's mommy milk.
goodluck!

Answer 6

get a breast pump and just store it. get a Nuk nipple for the those bottles with the bags inside so your child wont get a lot of air (causing gas and stomach pains) and try and fake her if she wont take the bottle right away with your milk in it... take the bottle and place it under your shirt and when she just wakes up or about ready to go to bed (when she is the hungriest for a meal) try and see if she notices, she may not if shes more hungry than picky about the bottle nipple. if she takes to it, slid the bottle out from under your shirt/bra, leaving it in her mouth and show her the difference. keep doing that if it works. if not, they make sugar water (or make something sweet at home at put it on the nipple) to make her latch on. just a little chocolate(because of the milk in it) to make her take the bottle nipple and she realizes its sweet and she will suck, and realize its your milk and hopefully she will take to it that way. anything sweet will work if you disapprove of using chocolates or candies of any sort. wet the nipple just a little and dip it into just a little bit of sugar... just on the end though, dont want her having a sugar rush, and place it in her mouth... and again, she will realize its sweet and when she sucks it off, milk will come out and she will realize its yours and she will eat.

Answer 7

my partner breastfed our son for 6 years -

she went back to work when he was three

and now he has 100 employees

and he is so nice to women, respects them so much, he cant get a girlfriend to go to bed with him - he is too much of a good friend to them, they cant make the transition!

they are so used to weaned men who have a certain animus against women

maybe they assume he is gay, because he is so nice

he was naturally chivalrous, protecting little girls from bullies from the time he went to school

think what a slavery it is that your society forces you to wean for economic reasons!

if americans had listened to the founding fathers who tried to limit fortunes to justice, every worker in the world including homemakers/mothers would be on US$15 an hour

and there would be no terrorism, poverty, war, crime and tyranny

spread the word, get limitation of fortunes to justice, get back to the american dream of a land of the free, and save the world from total death by nuclear winter!

and im very pleased to see someone here come out strong for staying with your baby

and ask yourself: what is it about society that dares to frown on a mother feeding her baby at work, in school if she is a teacher, in class for the children to enjoy - why is society antilife????? antilove????? antikindness?????

and our son was a perfect teenager - didnt get into trouble with the police till he was 20! - [and only one lapse] - in fact he started bringing us up, teaching us to be more mature!

Answer 8

Start putting you milk in bottles so she gets used to taking them.

Answer 9

buy one of them botles that are just like a womans boob. and give her that and jsut take her off u boob she will not starve her self she will take a bottle

Answer 10

put some tabasco sauce on... That'll do the trick...