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| We are totally lost on how to get our daughter off formula, we've tried different types of milk. i've managed to cut her down to only one bottle a day. she will go to sleep without a bottle but screams for about 15 minutes and will wake up about 2.30 wanting a bottle. we really want her off them as we are pregnant again, and its not cheap, and she doesnt need them any more.
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| How is your daugher with other food? Does she eat well or will she only drink formula? It could be that she is hungry and the milk is filling her up - therefore she doesn't want anything else If it was me I would try and increase her food and drop back the formula by 10mls every few days- it may be painful for a couple of weeks. Hope this helps D
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My son (now 22months old) stopped a bottle quite some time ago but the method we used was very effective....- Reduce the volume of milk by 20-30 ml every second night. For example, if your baby usually drinks 180 ml, you would give 150 ml for two nights, then 120 ml for the next two nights, and so on.
- Resettle your baby after each smaller feed with the settling technique of your choice.
- Once you get down to 60 ml or less in the bottle, stop the feed altogether.
You may also notice that your baby begins to feed more during the day after you cease the night feed. This improvement in daytime appetite may take another week to settle in. I got this information off the Raising Children website...in the search engine type Night Feeds. It worked really well for us. Currently though, sometimes my son does wake up crying and I offer him water and he guzzles it. I dry out alot during the night too. But he only wakes for 2 minutes or so, has a drink of water, then goes straight back to sleep. Now I leave the cup next to his cot so if he wants to, he can reach up and get it himself (although mostly I do it for him). Hope this helps! You'll be a new woman without those night feeds! 
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| Hi My daughter was fully breastfed but once she weaned herself at 11 months, she refused any type of milk. I eventually got her to drink chocolate flavoured cow's milk. if you buy the topping, you don't have to add much and it fools them into drinking it because it takes away the milk taste. Another option would be to start mixing the formulae in with cow's milk so she slowly get used to the taste. I personally refused to spend money on formula for a toddler. I think they should get nutrients from food anyway so spending a fortune so they can refuse their dinner and drink bottles of milk didn't make sense to me.
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| thanks for the great replies. shes a great eater, eats any thing and everything. We've tried cutting down the amount in her bottle, we've tried mixing it with cows milk, we've tried putting topping in it, even a warm milo. she wont have any of it. i think because its her comfort thing, as shes never had a dummy or anything. is it bad for her to be on formula at this age?
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Any type of artificial (formula) milk is largely unnecessary after about 12 months of age, if they are eating well. And you also don't have to replace it with cow's milk- plenty of kids around the world don't get cows milk, and do fine so long as there is a good source of calcium in their diet. So, you don't really have to replace the formula with anything if you don't want to. So long as she's drinking plenty of water for fluid, she should be completely fine nutritionally without it if she's eating a varied diet.
It sounds like a sleep association thing- she needs it to get back to sleep. Perhaps you're going to have to have a couple of rough nights of weaning her from the association with the bottle. Previous posts about gradually reducing the amount sound like a good place to start.
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| Ryan still have his milk, though he is on stage 3-toddler now. His pae recommended that we swap to normal milk that we(adult) drink at home. But when i introduced him to our normal milk, he stopped drinking milk altogether. So i switched back to his formula 3 until he is ready to quit. Can you reduce his current milk gradually and ultimately replacing with small quantity if the new milk. Is it the taste that she does not like? Is the new milk still given in her bottle? Above advice suits me fine but then i know it's hard tp deal with a difficult bubba when this is introduced. Good luck..
*****Han-Mum of 3years Ryan and 4month old Dylan*****
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We are in the finishing phase of weaning our 2 yo off formula... What we did was every 4 days or so we would reduce the amount of formula & water by 10 mils & replace it with10 mls of cows milk.
So at the start he would have 150mls of formula & now were at 130mls cows milk & 20mls formula... we did it sooooo slowly he didn't notice. Before we did this he hated cows milk & would refuse to drink it. But i think patience won the battle for us.
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| Hi mindyweb, Many parents have a child that sleeps throught the night by 8 weeks or earlier - although it is acceptable & still considered normal if they don't. However once they start sleeping through the night regurly they must continue to be resettled in the night without the aid of a feed. So what happens - at around 4 mnths they become very aware & wake & scream for the parent. The parents often think - child's hungry, I'll feed them. The child thinks - this is allright, I cried & I got picked up & fed. Don't worry most 1st time parents do this, the nursing health clinic sister told me of my mistake 2 months too late. How do you solve the problem? At the age of 2, if your prepared for some sleepless nights then offer water in the bottle only. She is likely to be unhappy & scream, but don't give in. It might take 2 more nights of this, or even a whole week, but eventually she will learn that there is no benefit to waking for a night feed. (start Thursday, be tired Friday at work for one day). Oh - and be prepared to duck - my nephew threw the bottle at his parents the 3rd night, and didn't wake up again after that!!!. By the way, Karitane & Tresillian can advise of good settling techniques that may work for your family. Best wishes. 
Mum to 3 girls, 8 & 11 yrs NT, and 6yrs ASD - the little whirlwind!
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