The weaning process won't be truly complete until your baby is off
the bottle at nighttime too.
Begin by giving your baby a half ounce of formula or breastmilk in
a bottle at nighttime after a normal breastfeeding session.
Not exact matches
Pre-portioned
bottles are also helpful
at night when you are still waking up as you are preparing the
nighttime feeding.
Eventually, after I hid the milk warmer and a few other items that were cues for my LO to ask for a
bottle, she was down just a
bottle at night before bed and no
nighttime nursing.
I think it is important to be flexible with
nighttime feelings because they will go through growth spurts, will have bad teething episodes, will get sick, etc. and breastfeeding or
bottles will be a necessity
at times.
A child attached to a
bottle and using it as
nighttime comfort (aka the
bottle is in bed with him) is
at risk for dental caries due to sugars in milk coating those new baby teeth and not getting brushed off.
Also, you may still have to keep some sort of
nighttime bottle just so she can sleep longer
at night.