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<blockquote data-quote="maxeygirls" data-source="post: 338868" data-attributes="member: 8869"><p>karif- regarding the bottle, Ive been there. My difficult child is 3.5 years old and diagnosis bipolar. Her inability to self soothe easily makes it challenging for her to handle change. Luckily she was using a sippy and not a bottle but still attached ti it more than her own skin at bedtime and the worst is whats inside... chocolate milk. husband started it when she was just over a year old and I was working 60-70 hour weeks and only recently was difficult child stable enough to even think about taking it away. </p><p>I started by reducing temperature slowly until difficult child hit her lowest allowable temp then began watering it down until she hit the point where she wouldnt take it. From there I switched back to a bottle(yes from a sippy) with a stage 1 nipple. I slowly kept watering it down/tapering chocolate until it was a splash of milk and a lot of water. </p><p>For a solid week difficult child stuck with this but didn't get much from the bottle itself. A stage 1 nipple is a lot of work! At this point she is still taking it to bed, full of water and sucks on it for 1-5 minutes before sleep or just snuggles up to it. She also no longer freaks out when she wakes up and it isnt there which is huge.</p><p>I also explained to her and showed herthat we were out of milk and so far that keeps any melt downs under 5 minutes. Oh and we aren't out of milk... Mommy relocated it to a washed out opaque Tropicana jug since difficult child doesn't like orange juice.</p><p>I have NO idea if this will help or not but its working for us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="maxeygirls, post: 338868, member: 8869"] karif- regarding the bottle, Ive been there. My difficult child is 3.5 years old and diagnosis bipolar. Her inability to self soothe easily makes it challenging for her to handle change. Luckily she was using a sippy and not a bottle but still attached ti it more than her own skin at bedtime and the worst is whats inside... chocolate milk. husband started it when she was just over a year old and I was working 60-70 hour weeks and only recently was difficult child stable enough to even think about taking it away. I started by reducing temperature slowly until difficult child hit her lowest allowable temp then began watering it down until she hit the point where she wouldnt take it. From there I switched back to a bottle(yes from a sippy) with a stage 1 nipple. I slowly kept watering it down/tapering chocolate until it was a splash of milk and a lot of water. For a solid week difficult child stuck with this but didn't get much from the bottle itself. A stage 1 nipple is a lot of work! At this point she is still taking it to bed, full of water and sucks on it for 1-5 minutes before sleep or just snuggles up to it. She also no longer freaks out when she wakes up and it isnt there which is huge. I also explained to her and showed herthat we were out of milk and so far that keeps any melt downs under 5 minutes. Oh and we aren't out of milk... Mommy relocated it to a washed out opaque Tropicana jug since difficult child doesn't like orange juice. I have NO idea if this will help or not but its working for us. [/QUOTE]
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