you are going to hate my answer, Just do it!!!! It helps if you have a friend or family member that can take the baby for you when she gets irritable those first few days. AS we all know as soon as they cry long enough you pick them up and guess what? They are right where they want to be, in your lap looking up and waiting.Night time was the hardest for me, its just easier to plug them in then to listen to them cry for you. It will happen, but don't try to do it, you have to just do it and be done.
Good luck
2007-03-27 07:39:27
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answered by Ropnwidow 2
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I have a nine month old breastfed infant, but from what I've read if you wanted to wean at exactly a year without causing your boobs (and the baby) a lot of grief, you would have had to start earlier. There is no magical number. You can start the process at one year (when she can also take cow's milk) and be weaned at thirteen months. I suggest you continue nursing until 12 months, and then start to gradually implement the weaning system of dropping the nursing sessions, starting with the ones that she least cares about, with the night one being the last. It is not going to be easy, esp. since many of us bfeeding mamas use nursing as a sleep tool. This is probably the one hurdle you are going to have to overcome. In a way you've already started the weaning process if she is taking three solid meals and water. I'd continue working with her with cup drinking and other liquids.
2007-03-27 07:40:28
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answered by MomofOneSpnkyGrl 2
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My son never had a bottle or pacifier either. I gave him warm baby cereal before bed time at night and then just tucked him in to sleep. During the days I tried not to associate nap time with feeding so we managed to wean quickly. He only had water to drink and was fine with that.
2007-03-27 07:35:05
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answered by Anonymous
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sure! We do infant led weaning. it particularly is the least perplexing ingredient interior the worldwide, no ought to over-think of issues. All you do is grant infant small bits of nutrition--issues they might relatively %. up and eat. they actually will feed themselves--while they're sufficiently previous. My son grow to be approximately 7.5 months while he reached out to my plate and helped himself to candy potatoes. After that, i might place slightly of despite the fact that we've been having--gentle meats, rice, beans, candy peppers, all varieties of greens and culmination, in front of infant. He'd eat what he needed. After he'd expressed that he needed nutrition (via feeding himself) i might enable him to eat from my finger besides. it particularly isn't any longer purely that, me and my siblings have been additionally BLW--there wasn't a word for it lower back interior the 70s, my mothers and dads purely theory it grow to be the organic way of doing it. Purees and processed grain flakes are not precisely modern-day in nature. it is so undemanding and organic, you will ask your self why everyone bothers with jars and 'levels.' ETA: heat1139, I made that mistake as quickly as! it particularly isn't any longer 'weaning' interior the reducing off of milk experience, yet 'weaning' as in introducing different meals--it particularly is a united kingdom/Australian use of the be conscious relatively of the yank use.
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answered by Anonymous
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You might be ok to let her wean herself. Why is it that you are setting the goal of one year? As she becomes more active and independant you will see that she wants to nurse less.
2007-03-27 07:37:54
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answered by Rocka 3
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I had the same problem. My son clearly didnt want to stop nursing. I think it was harder for me to just stop than it was for him. In the end there was no certian date I could put on it, He just stopped when he was ready. You will have to make extra sure that they still have that close connection with you.
2007-03-27 07:40:27
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answered by Lucky 4
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thats great that she wants a sippy cup but try giving her choco milk also water is good to but may not be enough for her.also if shes on solids that great. youdid a great job raising her so far.
2007-03-27 07:35:46
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answered by Anonymous
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Its best to let them self-wean, but that doesn't mean you cannot set limits.
http://www.kellymom.com/bf/weaning/index.html
http://www.kellymom.com/bf/older-baby/index.html
http://www.kellymom.com/bf/bfextended/ebf-benefits.html
2007-03-27 07:37:54
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answered by Terrible Threes 6
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