It seems that we are weening. Fiona takes the bottle while I’m at work so she’s pretty used to it and funny enough we struggled with the bottle so much in the beginning and now it’s not a problem at all while other friends whose babe took the bottle in the beginning with no problem can’t get them to take it now! I also switched Fi over to whole milk after she turned one and she LOVES it!
So a couple weeks ago i thought i’d try giving her a bottle in the morning instead of nursing her. She didn’t bat an eye and was completely happy to take it. After a week or so of that I thought I’d try giving it to her at night before she goes to sleep…and once again…no problem at all. I didn’t intend on purposely weening her…but like so many other things for whatever reason it just felt like the right thing to do and is going smoothly so far. I know that I have a couple of upcoming work trips that helped the thought process along….I didn’t want Greg going into something that had never happened before….and oh yah…there is the biting that she’d been doing. I mean HARD biting…which also made me think that maybe she wanted the bottle instead of me.
We still nurse in the middle of the night purely out of convenience for me=) but otherwise we are completely off the juice. It was a little sad….but, i’m kind of glad it’s happening. It’s nice to not have to think about what time of day it is and if i can put whatever it is that i’m about to eat or drink in my mouth and it be o.k. And honestly…I have to say..I enjoy giving Fi the bottle…we can get all scrunched down in a cuddly spot on the couch and cuddle away while she drinks it….when she nurses i’m always in an uncomfortable position…and as far as eye contact goes…fiona has never looked me in the eye while we were nursing…she always is looking past my side….so the bottle is kind of nice. We’ll see how long it takes to give up the middle of the night nursing…that may take a while longer…. or not =)
