Due to our successful eliminating of the soother during the Christmas holidays, my parenting confidence was at a high! Why not conquer the bottle next!
This time, I took a bit more of a planned and prepared approach. I started talking to the girls on a regular basis about what big girls they were and how they were growing up! Our neighbour Renee had just recently bought the girls baby dolls and strollers for their birthday. This worked well into my conversation that "babies" used bottles, not big girls. We also visited with our "very pregnant with twins" friend Stefania. I explained to the girls that these babies would need bottles so we would have to pass our bottles on to them! When Sofia and Quinn arrived we couldn't be more excited. The girls and I packed up our presents for the babies along with a bottle for each one. The girls spent a lot of time explaining to Stefania that they were big girls now, and her babies could use the bottles! Once again the girls shared their experiences with anyone that would listen. If they were asked "How are you?" or "What's new?" the girls would immediately explain "I a big girl now, I gave my bottles to the babies!"
This transition was a lot smoother than the elimination of the soothers. Since the girls were drinking milk during the day, they never really asked for the bottle at bedtime and we didn't have to replace it with milk before bed, it sort of just disappeared. The best disappearance was the washing of the bottles each night!! AWESOME!
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