We are trying to break Reagan of her nighttime bottle. Last night was the first night. Not on purpose. It just kind of happened that way. The poor girl cried for almost 2 hours. I tried rocking her, laying her back down in the crib and rubbing her back, laying her down and just walking away, nothing worked. She wanted that bottle. I eventually just had to let her cry it out.
I start school back up on Tuesday and Reagan is way past the age of needing the extra feeding at night. The time seems to be right to take the bottle away. I take full responsibility for her still waking up at night for a bottle. We've had so many problems with her ears that she's been waking up at night for months now and the easiest way to get her back to sleep was to feed her.
{on a side note, Reagan goes to Children's Hospital for ear tube surgery January 13th!! Soon, but not soon enough in my opinion}
Today was the first day Reagan did not have a bottle ALL DAY! I count that as a huge accomplishment. It makes me a little sad really. Drinking from a bottle keeps her a baby in my mind and somehow moving onto the sippy cup makes her a "big girl". Maybe that's why I didn't start introducing the sippy cup till a month ago??
Tonight, I prayed for Reagan while I rocked her before bed. I also told her to sleep through the night and not wake up so she wouldn't have to cry for the bottle again. Maybe she'll wake up, maybe she won't. I'll be going to bed soon though in case I'll be awake for a couple hours again tonight.
This is an aspect of parenting that I don't like. It's necessary, but it's not fun.
eek. Elliott is not off the bottle yet either. :(
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