Bottle

Today is the first day that Molly has not had a bottle. When Molly turned 12 months, the doctor said, "okay just stop giving her the bottle, go cold turkey, it is the best way" she said this in a very thick Spanish accent so I might be off a little bit.

I couldn't do it.

So I did what I do for every other problem/issue I have with Molly and I googled it. Just like with everything else lots of conflicting information and I just went with my gut. When she turned one year old, she moved into a different class room at child care and they said they don't give the babies bottles unless I specifically told them too. So really I was just giving her a bottle in the morning and at night. Then two weeks ago I stopped giving her a bottle in the morning and then tonight we didn't give her one before bed.

The only problems I see so far is: 1. Raymond and I are probably more in love with the bottle then Molly is and 2. It seems like she is sucking her thumb much more today than any other day.

Raymond has been more resistant to loosing the bottle than I have been. I am not sure if he is resistant because the bottle makes things so easy or if he realizes she moving on to being a toddler. Not sure, but I have to convince him when I am making these huge changes. Can you imagine the struggle I am going to have with him and her when I go to potty train? Ugh.

I did read that some babies have a strong suckling desire and if you take them off the bottle too soon they will find something to suck. Does this mean that I took her off too soon since she is sucking her thumb more? Sometimes it just feels like your damned if you do and damned if you don't.