WCM at 11months

[spanikopita]

Pedi said wait until 1 year, the standard line. We still BF and girlfriend has SEVEN teeth now. I'd like to sloooowly wean. She refuses formula.

I'm good, right?

[soozy87]

Our pedi said we could start at 9 months. We waited until 10 months and are replacing 1 bottle every 2 weeks with WCM.

[Deleted]

We started at 10 months, but still majority nursing. You can wean if you want, but it's not like the back teeth impact breastfeeding. To me, once you're passed the first 4, it's irrelevant other than the cranky baby part.

[Velar Fricative]

DD turns 1 on 10/1 and that 12-month thing is still nagging me, so I can't bring myself to replace full bottles with WCM until her birthday. We gave her a couple of ounces of WCM last night (not to replace her bottle, just to see what she thought) and she hated it. I don't see the harm in giving her a couple of ounces and going from there to see what she thinks. I look to our neighbors to the north and their pediatric association's recommendation that WCM not be given until at least 9 months. Pretty sure Canadian baby bellies are the same as American baby bellies.

[Velar Fricative]

Sept 11, 2014 12:05:24 GMT -5 @vicmo said:

Sept 11, 2014 11:56:49 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

. Pretty sure Canadian baby bellies are the same as American baby bellies.

You tell me.


So our dr actually told us to wait for 1 year, but I'm sure ds would have been fine. Also, re nursing, I had to get Bas to readjust his latch a few times during teething. I would latch him like back when he was a nb- wait til his mouth was open and then jam him on as far as he'd go. It helped me make it further with nursing a teethy baby.

It does look the same, BUT I just realized Canadian bellies are enviably more full of poutine than American bellies.

[lishie]

DS1 quit nursing cold turkey at 11 months. I had a huge BM freezer stash, so I weaned from pumping during that 6 week period and used my stash. I talked to my pedi and over the course of that period I started mixing BM and milk, slowly increasing the ratio of milk to BM, until he was getting just whole milk at a little over a year.