Thursday, April 8, 2010

Tonight's PMM

(PMM = Proud Mummy Moment)

Tonight we decided to take the plunge and take Ollie's nighttime bottle away.  He has only been having one bottle a day since he was a year old... but I have been wanting to take it away for ages now... he is going to be 2 soon afterall.  We tried a few months ago and it was not happening so we decided to wait and try again some other time...

Tonight was the other time and it went so well!!  I was worried about him not getting as much milk, because he would normally have had a whole bottle before going up to bed and then half a bottle going to sleep... I didn't think I could convince him to drink this much from a cup.  I was wrong.  He had 2 and a half Tomee Tipee cups before bed.  There was a little moan and whinge from him but I just told him that we were going somewhere really fun tomorrow and that we would see his friend Ivy... and he closed his eyes.

There has not been a peep since.  I had myself geared up for an awful time of it and I was ready to not back down... I'm very surprised.  Obviously he is ready to give it up.

Nappies is next I suppose... but maybe not for a couple of months.

7 comments:

  1. Just checking in to make sure you got my info for the blog makeover?

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  2. I know it has to be done sometime. I had 5 kids. But, my theory was, I've never seen a kid go to high school with a bottle so who cares? Good luck with Ollie and his bottle breaking.
    Blessings,
    Tia

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  3. That's great. You have every reason to be proud. Sometimes we gear ourselves up for the worst and are then pleasantly surprised when we aren't faced with a meltdown.

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  4. Well that went smoothly! I think it's all about the readiness, so you were right to wait a few months. That's what I did when I was weaning my first from the night boob. I'm worried about babe 2 though as he's seriously latched on, 24-7 and already 13 months. Hopefully he'll be fully weaned sometime before primary school...LOL

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  5. Visiting from New Friend Friday: Way to go on making the change! Those are big steps! Fun to see you are on this side of the ocean. We're Americans living in Portugal.

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  7. This is such great news! I tried to take my son's pacifier from him at night and it was no good!

    He'll be 2 in august and I he only uses it at night time...so we'll stick to his terms now.

    But your story gives me hope to keep trying!

    Thanks for sharing you PMM!!
    Yay Ollie!

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