Weaning Off the Bottle

Ablactating the bottle off from your child can be a difficult job for you and for your baby. Sometimes mothers get caught up making their children happy and lose the sight of their future; this is not good for their overall growth and development. When you create salubrious boundaries and regulations in your house and are consistent, you will find your child much happier than ever before. With respect to food, the idea of ‘No bottle’ in the bed and ‘Eat only on the table’ will be a good practice to wean off the bottle from your child. You need to keep in mind that immediate ordinances is not true happiness and will not result into good habits for your child now and in future. Most of the mothers are worried about their children sleeping with the bottles in their mouth even after attaining the age of 12 months, sometimes even more than that, they get worried and try to wean off the bottles from their children but unfortunately they fail to do so. Let’s know why and when the right time to wean your child off the bottle is.

After completing of 12-15 months, make your child habituated to eat with a spoon and sit by his own and grab solid food, if he shows interest to eat solid food by his own then it will be easy for the mother to wean off the bottle from the child. Meals and snacks should be coherent; this will help your baby get familiar to the daily feeding routine. If your baby is fed from the bottle even after crossing the respective age, he may face tooth decays and tooth problems, which can end up causing improper tooth development. By not weaning off the bottle, the solid foods they consume all day get replaced with milk and white milk does provide a little nourishment but is not complete growth nutrition for the baby.

When you make a mindset to wean your baby, make sure that you are not distracted by any other things, you just have to concentrate on your weaning process. This has to be done to avoid the process getting difficult. When you feed your child from the bottle always hold it yourself, this will help you to wean your child easily. During the transition phase, your baby needs to be given complete attention and some extra comfort, you can do this by getting a cute teddy bear and soft toys for him or rather getting a soft animal coated blanket for him.

Make your child drink from the cup instead of the bottle, make him comfortable and don’t force him. Daily practice of feeding him from cup will help you wean your child easily. If your baby is thirsty in the mid night, do not give him the bottle, instead give him a small cup of water so that he gets habituated to it and leaves the bottle away. All the above stated information will surely help you wean your child and help him grow and develop perfectly.