Back to Life...Back to Reality
Day 3 of bottle breaking is now underway! Addison is doing GREAT with ditching the bottles and mommy has not wavered even once. Over the weekend I started hiding the bottles away in the stuff to go in the attic as they were cleaned. On Monday morning when Addison woke up she was given a sippy cup with milk + 2oz of formula mixed in and we began "the process".
There is a little less contentment at each nap and bedtime, but other than that she isn't showing any signs of missing them at all. So for 5 minutes or so I have to listen to her scream (which sometimes happened even with the bottles) and then off to lala land she goes.
I am convinced now more than ever, that bottle breaking is more about breaking the parents than it is the babies. It would be so much easier for me to hold her close to me at each nap and let her suck on her bottle till she falls asleep. But I guess life isn't always about what's "easy" - it's about doing the hard thing sometimes as well.
Bottle time was always the time when I got my daily fill of snuggles from Addison, I hope we find another snuggly time soon, cause I miss it. :) I would rather bottle break now than at 2 or 3 though, it seems like it would only get harder as they get older.
There is a little less contentment at each nap and bedtime, but other than that she isn't showing any signs of missing them at all. So for 5 minutes or so I have to listen to her scream (which sometimes happened even with the bottles) and then off to lala land she goes.
I am convinced now more than ever, that bottle breaking is more about breaking the parents than it is the babies. It would be so much easier for me to hold her close to me at each nap and let her suck on her bottle till she falls asleep. But I guess life isn't always about what's "easy" - it's about doing the hard thing sometimes as well.
Bottle time was always the time when I got my daily fill of snuggles from Addison, I hope we find another snuggly time soon, cause I miss it. :) I would rather bottle break now than at 2 or 3 though, it seems like it would only get harder as they get older.
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Addison is such a MOVER - cuddles will just be fast and frequent is all. *grin* You'll just have to grab snuggles between her racing around like mad. ;)