Sooner or later each mom separates the child from a breast and begins to accustom to more adult way of food. To facilitate process of transition from a breast to a small bottle, it is possible to lean on councils of pediatricians and more skilled mothers.
Instruction
1. Be surely adjusted on the fact that process will take time. Show patience, the kid does not want to annoy you, and just does not understand the events.
2. Try to change a feeding situation. If you nurse in a bed, then give a small bottle to the kid, having taken him on hands and sitting, for example, in a chair.
3. Some mothers suggest to pour at first on drops in the child's mouth in milk from the syringe with the removed needle. It helps the child to understand that there are different ways of receiving food, except a breast.
4. Give to the child a small bottle in hands out of feeding as a toy. Perhaps, having got used to its look, the child will feel more freely when feeding from it.
5. Offer the kid a small bottle for the first time in a quiet situation. Do not do it if the child cries, froze or simply not in mood. Also do not offer the child a new way of food if he is strongly hungry.
6. Do not insist on feeding continuation if the child refuses flatly. Offer it a small bottle next time.
7. Warm up milk to body temperature. If temperature of food is habitual for the child, it will be easier for it to adapt to a new way of food.
8. Some recommend to warm also a pacifier. But here it is better to be guided by a condition of the child. Most of children suits the pacifier warmed to the body temperature as she reminds a breast. But if its are cut teeth, perhaps, the cold pacifier is pleasant to it more.
9. It will be quite good to try nipples of different forms also. Having it is possible that changed a pacifier, you will achieve bigger success. Experiment with quantity of openings in a nipple which is various.
10. If the child persistently refuses to drink from a small bottle, buy the capacity of other color or a form. Offer a small bottle with handles, perhaps, it will attract interest of the child.
11. Ask dad or other family member to accustom the child to drink from a small bottle. For several months of breastfeeding the child gets used to a mother's breast, and it is difficult to it to pass to other type of acceptance of food. Therefore dad or the grandmother can facilitate to the child a task.
12. Remember that some children begin to drink from a cup at once.