{"id":1201,"date":"2013-08-09T09:58:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T13:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2015-02-17T16:04:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T21:04:31","slug":"beginning-bottles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/09\/beginning-bottles\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginning Bottles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DSC00349\"<\/a>Up to this point, only one of my children has ever had a bottle: Honeybun.\u00a0 We started Honeybun\u00a0on bottles when she was about 6 weeks old as I was heading back to work and had one night a week where I had to be away from her for about 5 hours.\u00a0 I remember feeling like\u00a0beginning bottles\u00a0was such a momentous occasion when she got her first bottle, like it was a rite of passage or something.\u00a0 I proudly took pictures while hubby awkwardly tried to get her to take the bottle.<\/p>\n

I now realize bottles don\u2019t really matter.\u00a0 There is nothing magical about baby\u2019s first bottle and no reason a baby ever needs a bottle if s\/he is always with mommy.<\/p>\n

\"c<\/a>This was the case with Sugarplum, I was never away from her so she never required a bottle.\u00a0 I decided to wait until she was older and started straight with sippy cups.\u00a0 I transitioned Honeybun\u00a0off the bottle to a sippy cup by 7 months so I figured it wouldn\u2019t be a problem for Sugarplum to go straight.\u00a0 I first tried the cup with Sugarplum at about 5 months and she couldn\u2019t figure out how to suck and she refused the expressed milk even after I removed the valve from the cup so the milk would just pour out into her mouth.\u00a0 It was months before she would take milk from the cup (and even then we had our struggles, see\u00a0“Normalizing Nursing”<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

In preparing for Doodle, I bought new nipples for Honeybun’s\u00a0bottles (Playtex VentAire which she took easily) figuring Doodle would need them when I returned back to work as I intended to leave him home with daddy but that didn\u2019t happen.\u00a0 When we started having oversupply troubles (see\u00a0“Too Much of a Good Thing”<\/a>) and I read about how Doodle would be a perfect candidate for developing a bottle preference, I decided to take him with me to work all the time. \u00a0It\u2019s actually worked about because now he\u2019s used to being in the dance studio with me and I don\u2019t have to worry about overstressing our babysitter with all three kids.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve stopped taking him with me when I teach in the evenings but I\u2019m gone and back before he requires a feed so it\u2019s not a problem.\u00a0 However, in the fall I\u2019ll start a new schedule while I\u2019ll be working longer hours and don\u2019t plan to take him with me as hubby will be home and it\u2019s really not the best thing for Doodle.\u00a0 \u00a0so we will see if he needs a bottle a few nights a week or if he will just settle into a routine of not needing to feed while I\u2019m gone (I\u2019ll only be away 2 \u00bd to 3 hours but all my babies tend to feed every 2 hours during the day).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Up to this point, only one of my children has ever had a bottle: Honeybun.\u00a0 We started Honeybun\u00a0on bottles when she was about 6 weeks old as I was heading back to work and had one night a week where I had to be away from her for about 5 hours.\u00a0 I remember feeling like\u00a0beginning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,16,9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-baby-business","category-breastfeeding","category-family-life","category-work-it-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7247,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions\/7247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}