amelia is 6 months old and I still warm up her bottles. I think .Sarah said that .Oni takes a cold bottle and has since 4 months old.

The only time i've ever warmed finn's bottles is when I get one out of the fridge for his first feeding in the morning, and then it's only to take the chill off. There's no reason to warm them so I never did and he'll drink it warm or cool or cold.

Why don't you start warming her bottles less and less until you're giving her room temp? There's no time "too soon" to give her cold bottles since warming isn't necessary.

Gen's right. I started at 4 months. Only because of the soothing effect that a warm bottle has on an infant!

when she turned 4 months, I started room temp. Then a week later, I have it to her ice cold. She didn't mind either. I put her on a sippy up early too.

But, it might not be as easily accepted by your angel, as is was by mine. Ya know?

The main reason I started it was becasue i'm not going to warm up her cows milk when it's that time. I figured, hell, I might as well get her used to it!

But I still give her a warm bottle at night. It helps her sleep with warm milk in her belly! But she will sleep just as well with room temp!

Sarah

Hey sarah, I am glad that you mentioned a sippy cup, when did you start giving her one? I was thinking about that and I can't wait until melia can drink out of one......It just looks fun. Lol

oh and when did you give her juice?

Oni got a sippy cup at about 5 months, exclusively.

I never gave her juice. I'll never give her juice. Personal decision. I've done research and the chance of severe .Gastrosis(from the acids) is too much for me to risk.

I give her plain water. I was doing half and half with propel and water. But she prefers just water.

For her teeth's sake, i'll never give her juice.

When she's older, if she wants just propel(full strength, not half&half), i'll give her that!

sarah

Mmmm i'll have to look into that. But you give her formula in a bottle?

I don't think i'm ever going to give finn juice either. It's nothing but sugar and calories. It'll be a rare treat for him to have juice and even then it'll be more than 1/2 diluted.

It depends, .Gen. On what's clean! Hahaha!

I give her both(water&milk) in a sippy cup. But at night, for soothing purposes, i'll give her a bottle.

But if I haven't had time to wash bottles, i'll give it to her in a sippy cup. They have a huge variety of sippy cups out there.

Oni likes the rubber cup attachments. She'll drink out of the hard plastic sipper, but prefers the rubber one. So she can try to bite it off! Ha!

She started rejecting most bottle nipples soon after I switched her!

Bridget. My .S.I.L constantly gave her son juice after a bottle (because she felt he wasn't satisfied-because he was crying over reflux) so she'd stuff a juice bottle in his mouth. He gained 3lbs in less than 3 weeks

it was horrible!!!! He was crying to hard because he was being over stuffed. She would just *dump* cereal into every bottle her 6 week old drank. No measuring, nothing.
Thank .God she cut that sh't out!!

Sarah

is this baby caleb's mom? What is wrong with her? What does her doctor think about all this and what made her finally stop?

wow!!!

I never warmed bottles. I use room temperature water and mix it up when he is hungry. I would not want the hassle of looking for a microwave everytime we went out somewhere.

.

Yea, it's .Caleb's mommy!

What made her begin was her mom was adding cereal behind her back. And instead of stopping it immedietly, she followed in her footsteps.

I told her continuously to stop, and to call his Dr. And find out why he's crying so hard and so 'non-stop'!! Well she didn't call him.

I kept tellin her it looks like reflux. He would scream after he hate, and really any other waking second he had. I said reflux reflux reflux! This can cause serious damage if not reated, blah blah blah. And so *finally* she took him to a different Dr. There in .Texas.

I told her she had to tell his Dr. That she had him on cereal. And if she didn't I wouldn't speak to her until she did. I told her how extreemely important it was for his dr to know, she he could treat him effectively!

His Dr. Told her that he needed to go on a *serious* diet. After gaining 3lbs in less than 3 weeks. That she could add *only* about a teaspoon per 5oz. To gradually lessen it.

Thank .God she listened. Here's her myspace! Check out my wittle punkin!!

Http://www.Myspace.Com/randamanie


sarah

.Hmm, I think .Monday (she'll officially be 4 months) .I'm going to start slowly stopping warming her bottles up like you did, a week at a time. I've had to give her cold times a few times before when we were on our way somewhere & had no way of heating it up ((car bottle warmers suck @ss)) & she *hated* it & wouldn't hardly drink any of it.
Ahhh I can't wait til she's drinking normal milk!!



.Good question lol, I wanted to ask the same thing!! I want to get .Kaylee on a sippy cuz as soon as possible!

Thanks so much everyone!! (like always)

.Michelle

i never used powder, so mixing them "on the go" was never an option. My .S.I.L does that though.

I think it's a great way to stop discrimination(by babas) against cold/room temp milk.

Sarah

I used to warm layla's bottles til she was about 8 months old but straightaway I decided not to warm logans as it would be hard with the two of them on bottles anyway especially when we go out places that don't have bottle warming facilites.

I wanted him not to be fussy about his bottles like layla used to be so I used to let him bottles cool then give them to him. He has never had a problem with this and still has 4 bottles in 24 hours

Do you guys boil the water first?

Yes I always used boiled water but now logan is on cows milk which I completely forgot like a doofus so ignore my last post- it irrelvant as the bottles are always cold milk straight from the fridge now

No. Oni's Dr. Told us we could use tap after 3 months as well.

Sarah

i've never boiled the water. We have good water where we live and we have a pur filter on our faucet, I just use it straight from the faucet.