2 New Milestones!!!

This week Cameron reached 2 new milestones, First going "Night,Night" on his own and second, getting down to 1 bottle!

Going Night Night

As seen in a previous blog posting we have a nightly routine that we use with Cameron. Normally we do a nice warm bath and then one last 4 oz bottle before we put him to sleep on against our shoulder. After he is sleep we do the nightly dance and then take him to his room. I decided this week to try something different to see if it would work. Because we are trying to wean him off of bottles (see next paragraph) I skipped the last 4 oz bottle. After the bath when he seemed ready to get on my shoulder I said lets go "night, night" and then took him right to his bed. No fuss, no crying - just arms under his head like normal and he was out! I don't know why we haven't tried this before. I guess we were just so use to our routine that we didn't think about it. This has also been working for his naps as well. I say, "lets go take a nap, nap" and put him in the crib and that's it. Now a few times we could hear him playing around and he may let out a few whines but after a few minutes he was out. I like this!

Down to One

Our goal is to make sure that when Cameron turns one he is completely off of formula and the bottle. While its a lofty goal we think it is absolutely possible. We know the longer a baby is fed from a bottle, the more likely they will develop tooth decay. Since Cameron had 6 teeth already we want to make sure try to prevent this. We started Cameron drinking from a sippy cup when he was about 4 months old. He didn't like it that much (like most babies) but we continued to make sure we exposed him to something other than the bottle. We know most parents just stop their kids cold turkey at one year but we are hoping to slowly get him to that point. We are now down to just one bottle a day. We have also be giving him more solids and are right on track with the 24-29 fluid oz per day. With only one bottle a day I see success in our future. Whole milk and cups only after April 15th!