How to wean the child from a bottle?
- Dilute the milk with water, which he uses from a bottle, well, in a cup, pour not diluted. The principle of "tasty-tasteless" operates. When the infant is addicted to being satisfied without a bottle in the middle of the day, one can proceed to subsequent ways of eating.
- Adopt the following thoughts to intrigue the baby: let the child choose from several attractive cups or decorate with him a cup from which he is already drinking.
- The following method is used in the case of children from year to older, when they are extremely tightly tied to a bottle and catch it as something more than just a food informer. For them, the "step by step" method is not suitable. It will become the most traumatic and the least successful. With this option, you must take the bottle once and for all. How to do it right:
- Prepare the baby. About seven days before this action, tell him that he is no longer small, it is time to say goodbye to the bottle.
- Any next day before a significant event remind him about it.
- Next, hide all the bottles from the apartment and show that there are no more.
- Allow the child to participate in the process. Tell him that you imagine how difficult it is for him to part with a bottle, although it is necessary if he is already rather big.
- Think of him as a reward for the fact that he had the opportunity all day to behave properly and not be capricious.
- Keep an easy access to a cup of water or juice on the option, when it will become too strong to ask for a bottle.
- Try together with the child to find a substitute, an object that will help him not to miss the bottle. For example, when he is bored, he is given the opportunity to hug his own teddy bear, etc.
- Using this method, you can not select the bottle, and then suddenly feel sorry for the baby, go backward.
- A rather entertaining method of weaning a baby from a bottle is contained in the following. It is necessary to demonstrate to the child what to use from a cup is simply more appetizing, rather than from a bottle. How to arrange this? Some mothers deliberately slightly reschedulate the liquid in a bottle or put too little sugar. The baby is trying - not tasty, but the mother gives him a cup. And there it is just appetizing!
The process of parting with a bottle sometimes does not follow as smoothly as you want, it contains in itself and experiments, and gaffes, and tears. Although, when you decide, sooner or later you will achieve the effect.