How to wean a child from a bottle?

If the child was breastfeeding,then, most likely, the bottle was not used very often or even not used at all. But the children who grew up on artificial or mixed food, the bottle is very expensive and it's not so easy for them to part with it.

When it is necessary to wean the child from the bottle? Experts say that this process can bestart when the child can sit on his own, eat food from a spoon, can drink from a cup. With age, a child needs more and more diverse food products, a milk formula or a bottle of porridge no longer satisfies the needs of a growing body. In addition, sucking from a bottle has a bad effect on the growth and development of the child's teeth.

But still, the age and the moment for weaning from a bottle for each kid is individual. Everything depends on the degree of physical andpsychological development, emotional readiness of the child and mother to the beginning of the weaning. In particular, child psychologists recommend not to start weaning from the bottle, if the baby has suffered stress, a strong emotional shock. For a child, this can be a move, a divorce of parents, the birth of a younger child. Such period not every adult can bear, let alone the child. A bottle for him is a symbol of peace and comfort. To take it away is to deprive the child of a way of comforting himself.

Children react differently to attempts to take a bottle from them. If the baby is already in general ready to part witha bottle, he can cry, more often even for pro forma, than from the heart. After a day or two, such a child quietly forgets about the bottle. If the baby is not ready to be weaned, tantrums and tears may not stop for a long time.

How to determine if your child is ready to switch from a bottle to a cup? When it seems to you that the baby is ready to give upbottle, offer him a cup instead of a bottle. If the child objects, then do not insist, try to offer him a cup after a few days. If still the cup is not accepted, then postpone the abstinence from the bottle - the child is not yet ready.

Many mothers, trying to wean the child from the bottle, resort to various tricks. Someone tells his child that the bottlelost, broke, "gone." If parents manage to endure one or two nights "with a concert", then this method can in general be called effective. But if, a compassionate parent heart can not stand this heartbreaking picture, then all efforts are a nuisance. The child will become even more attached to the bottle and next time the focus with the "disappearance" of the bottle will not pass.

Pretty interesting way disaccustoming a child from a bottle isthe following. It is necessary to show the child what to drink from a cup is simply tastier than from a bottle. How to do it? Some mothers have a little bit of salting out the liquid in the bottle or putting a little sugar. The child tries - not tasty, but my mother offers him a cup. And there just something delicious!

Everyone is accustomed that it is impossible to wean a child from a bottle without tears. But, it turns out, quite often children part with a bottle voluntarily and without hysterics. To wean a child from a bottle, one mom, for example, "Bottle Festival". The bottle is beautifully packaged, bandagedribbon and solemnly handed to a small "lyala". Parents explain to their child that he is already big, and just his bottle is very necessary for that "lyale", let the kid give her a bottle if he does not mind. The child is very proud of his action and part with the bottle painlessly. True, this method is not suitable if the child is too jealous of their property.

If parents themselves drink from the bottle all the time,pouring liquid into a cup, the child, imitating them, still recognizes only a bottle. After all, imitation of adults is almost the main way of teaching a child. To help the baby abandon the bottle, parents must themselves constantly demonstrate to the child, to what is pleasant and convenient to drink from a cup!