About once every eight or nine weeks I pick up my copy of What To Expect The First Year and although it is slightly informative, it always FREAKS ME OUT. For example, I had no idea that 11 months is a good time to start weaning the twins from their bottles. Considering they eat solids three times a day AND 38 ounces of milk/formula (each) broken up between six bottles, weaning seems like an impossibility. We’ve been using sippy cups since they were about five or six months old and, while they can down eight ounces of formula from the bottle in about 10 minutes, it takes them several minutes to drink 1/2 an ounce of juice or water from a sippy cup.
Oh, and What to Expect the First Year also recommends transitioning straight from the bottle to a regular cup. I figured I’d throw caution to the wind, surround us all in towels, and give it a try. The twins loved it and only dumped their full cups on the floor twice.
After the big weaning experiment, I decided to let the twins do whatever they wanted for their 11 month birthday. This meant that Dominik got to pull all the books off the bookshelves and Scarlett got to play with my keys, the remote, the digital camera, and my cell phone.
Tags: 11 Month Old Twins, Bottle Weaning
June 13, 2009 at 3:58 pm |
Doesn’t What to Expect say you can use straight-up milk from here on? And give them a spoon and a bowl of food, surround the floor with towels, and let them have at it. This, of course, is before their bath and not while you have dry cleanable clothes on. If I remember correctly, you were off the bottle at 8 mos. But then, you were a very special girl.