Feeding Transitions for Baby
Transitions for anyone are not easy - we all like our "comfort blankets" and we don't like to change. Doing the same thing is soothing and can really pacify an individual, especially a baby. And transitioning a baby from the breast to the bottle or bottle to the sippy cup can be a daunting task. Afterall, it seems like everything for both mommy/parents and baby has to be perfect in order to make the smoothest of transitions (i.e. no sicknesses, having the right bottle/sippy cup, no major events that are occurring during the transition period, etc.). But the one thing that I have learned with my 3 kids are that in order to have successful feeding transition - you need to make them gradual. For example, I recently transitioned my youngest from the bottle to the sippy cup. We started the transition when he was about 11 months old (with the goal to have him fully transitioned by his 1st birthday but that didn't happen and it was...