It's time. Bottles no more. It may surprise many of you that Shelby still even uses the bottle....it was time, however to pull the plug, or should I say nipple. The good news is, I think this has been hardest on me. You see, Shelby has used some sort of a sippy cup for months and months at school. I feel like she was 8 or 9 months (maybe younger) when they asked me to bring a soft-top cup. I still continued to give her a bottle for her warm milk however in the morning and at bed time. It was our quiet time. I would rock her, sing to her and for the longest time, she would just drift off to sleep in my arms. It was the one quiet, sweet 1-on-1 part of my day that I had with my sweet girl.
It was time though. I feared Shelby would go crazy, screaming for her bottle, refusing bedtime. Nope, not at all. She certainly isn't as keen to drink a cup of milk in my lap, but this is not the traumatic transition that I had envisioned, so for that I am grateful.
I will certainly miss my quiet milk moments - crazy to think they are gone forever:( The good news is, she really likes me to read to her books (the same ones over and over) so I am fairly certain those snuggles are mine to keep!
We are gearing up to do the same thing - but I know P doesn't like milk out of a sippy... maybe she will go the way of my other two and not drink milk at all, but I doubt it. I am so glad the transition hasn't been traumatic :)
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