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5 Weaning Tips

Eliza Ferree — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:49:39 +0000

These are various tips from readers, friends and my own experiences. I hope someone can help these helpful and remember if you have a tip on how to wean your breastfed child please let us know in the comments.

- We knew ahead of time when we wanted to wean so we started cutting down little by little as the time got closer. By the date, he was off.

- Try skipping either morning or nights.

- Just cutting down one feeding a day didn’t work for me, I had to do it even slower. I did one feeding a week until I was finally down to one night and then off.

- I put my breastmilk in a sippy cup and she went straight to it. All you need is to pump your milk between feedings and fill up the cup.

- Cold turkey. That’s how I did it, but you’ll have to stick to your guns.

For myself I’ve done the cutting back, as well as the waiting for him/her to take themselves off but the best for me was when the doctor gave me the pill to dry it up. The pill from my understandings is no longer available. How did you do it?

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Time To Wean

Eliza Ferree — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:45:36 +0000

image from SXC.HU, Carin’s pic

As a mother to four children that I have each breastfed I came to the decision that with my last child I’d wean him before he turned a year old. While I know many believe that you wean a child when they decide, sometimes it is just something a mom must do. My youngest’s first birthday will be on the 14th, which means I have less than two weeks left to wean him. Will it happen? I have no clue, but I’ve been trying.

Before slamming me, my son cut his first tooth at a little less than two months old and has just about a full set of teeth. He loves to try biting me anytime he eats and if he falls asleep while feeding those teeth clamp down on me. Now that you’ve got the idea, I want to be able to do this as soon as possible.

I’ve never had success at weaning my children, at least not without getting mastitus (sp) or getting really sick. Any suggestions? From my understanding they no longer have the pill they did ten years ago with my first child and I know that cold turkey isn’t always the best. So how did you do it? I’d love to read comments as I’m sure there are other moms out there looking for ways to wean their child from the breast to a cup.

The countdown has begun…

(For the next two weeks we’ll be talking about breastfeeding and bottle feeding)

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The Great Water Bottle Purge

kate baggott — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:08:36 +0000

Right. We’re weaning. Well, it is my intention to wean and the baby’s intention not to let it happen. What I am winning is the battle against water bottles. Like most nursing mothers, I am prone to sudden dehydration. I keep water bottles next to my usual nursing spots. That is, I try to keep water everywhere and often forget all about it. As a result, I have found abandoned water bottles under the bed, under every chair, under the couch, tucked behind the curtain fall on window sills and under the seats of the car. Rooting them out, so far, has been a lot easier than weaning.

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