Posted on 05/06/2005 6:16:05 AM PDT by grellis
I am hoping that we can discuss a broad range of weaning, not just the ol' "breast to cup." What are some methods you employed to wean your children from the crib into the "big kid's bed?" How and when did you wean your child out of the afternoon nap? From diapers to underpants?
In other words: What are some ways you have gotten your kids from Point A to Point B?
I know, that is a pretty broad subject. Be as specific as you like or feel free to offer advice in general terms. If you have a child at a particular weaning stage, use this opportunity tp pick the brains of our panel of experts (yes, I'm talking about all of you! Today I'm no expert).
Coffee's on!
Good morning, ladies!
Good morning, gentlemen!
Anyhoo! It's good to be back with you good folks!
Our fourth, a girl, was weaned from crib to bed during our move, when I talked up the new bunkbed bigtime (note, she was about 22 months at the time). So, upon moving, we said, "sweetpea, this is your NEW bed, the BIG GIRL bed," and that was that! Yes, I thought to myself, "wow", too.
Now, you'd only pry her "special blankie" from her grip with the jaws of life, but I decided that wasn't necessary to wean from.
A side note: without a computer/phone, I was so terribly productive on the homefront, it's embarrassing. I didn't think I was a compulsive surfer or chat-er, but I think those 15 minutes here and there add up.
Morning everyone & Happy Mother's Day!
As most of you know, I returned to work a couple of months ago. Our youngest son has been leaving his bedroom in the middle of the night quite a bit lately. Some mornings I'll discover that he's slept in his brother's bed; some nights, I will come home from work to find him fast asleep in my bed. When I am home and he gets out of bed at night, I get him right back to bed, tuck him in, and firmly let him know that he will be sleeping in his bed. Occasionally, I'll hear him leaving his room and just shout "Back to bed!" and he obeys. Long story short (wacka wacka): How can I get DH to be more consistent??!
Good morning!
That's funny that topic is this week.
We are working on my middle son getting up and going potty at night. We completely forgot what we did with our oldest 4 years ago, lol. Selective memory?
Anyway, we were getting him up around 11-12 every night and taking him potty on our way to bed, but he wasn't waking himself up, and if we forgot, or waited too long, or he had to go again, he would just peepee in bed. I was washing sheets way too much.
We finally started talking about how his brain/head can tell when he has to go potty, and can wake him up, but he has to remind himself before he goes to sleep. We told him how smart his brain was to do that for him, etc etc etc and how we do that, and his big brother does it, and his mamaw and pampaw.
We also cut down on evening drinks. But after teeball, he has to have something.
We still may take him potty on our way to bed, but he is now also getting up by hisself and going in the middle of the night. Been 7 days. I think ice cream is needed tonight! (watch, I'll be washing his sheets tomorrow! lol)
At least his younger brother is only 18 months behind him, so we probably won't forget what we did this time.
Y'all have anice weekend. We are going to have a beautiful one here in Georgia.
Yeesh, I couldn't come up with a topic, literally, until I'd already started to post (couldn't guess that, could ya?!) Looking at the calendar now and then isn't such a bad idea!
Naaah, he's just playing my husband for a pushover!
Glad you're back, I was wondering where you've been. Am I reading correctly--did you move to a new house down the street? (I didn't get home from work until 4am, trying to shake off the brain fuzz.)
That was a problem with our middle son, who plays hard and dehydrates like...something that dehydrates a lot. I finally realized that he wasn't stopping during play and drinking, just waiting until he was getting ready for bed. Once I began to make sure that he was drinking a couple of ounces every hour, he needed far less at bedtime.
He wasn't actually wetting his bed--he would get up to use the bathroom and go to sleep in the tub after he was done.
HUUUUMMMMMM....my children are 27 and 25, and for the life of me I can't remember how we moved them from crib to bed:)
I do know I never had trouble with my youngest in putting her to bed, or getting her to stay there, she never got up, thru the night.
My son tried the sneaking into our bed at night a few times, but once I knew it wasn't really nightmares, I'd take him back to his bed, and tell him to stay there. I would remind him when he went to be that it had to be an emergency for him to get up thru the night. It didn't take much to break him from it.
Becky
Yikes... I have a long road ahead of me from Point A to Point B. Oldest son (2 1/2) needs to move out of crib, needs to get with the potty training program, still needs to nap but it's a constant struggle.... younger son (8 mos) needs to start using cup (but he seems fairly intrigued by it, at least)... and we just found out Baby 3 will be arriving in December! The good part is that there is so much to do it's going to be hard to get overly stressed and fixated on any one thing....
THis is so appropriate!!!
I am having an hard time not weaning, but getting her to fall asleep on her own. Currently, she nurses before naps and bedtime, and this is how she falls asleep. If I nurse her earlier on then try to get her to sleep, it is 3 hours of screaming...
augh....
Well, seeing as the average house in Northern Virginia has now hit $505K, it would be more accurate to say that we moved to another TOWNhouse down the street! lol. We are probably one of two families with more than 1.2 kids. It's definitely dual-incomeville around here (we're not). I never knew I'd would end up so counter-culture.....
lol
Good morning all.
I was granted the luxury of being told "go back to sleep" this morning, and I indulgently did so!!!! I'm still on my first cup of coffee!
That line cracked me up!
With the twins going to be 17 in July, & my oldest going to be 19, I think it's time!
;-D
We'll try that.
Occasionally he stand next to his bed and peepees. Once he walked into the living room and peed on my hubby's foot, lol.
But he hasn't fallen asleep in the tub, yet, lol. Maybe it felt nice and cool to your son, or else it was just close.
Our oldest sleep walks, so we have to dead bolt the doors. He can reach the key (in case of fire I said we have to have it like that) but has never made an attempt to go outside.
When we weaned him (oldest) off his lovey (a stinky piece of quilt) we threw a lookalike away, but put his real one up to save for when he's a teen and we can embarass him (it is pink, was named Pink B, (b for blanket)) Anyway, after a day or 2, he was fine. He still mentions it now and then, he's 9 now, and we did that when he was 5 or 6.
We are about to go through the same with the middle one. His lovey is old burp cloths/cloth diapers. He sleeps with them. They are falling apart.
Our youngest just has a stuffed puppy dog, named, amazingly enough, Puppy Dog, and a beanie baby rraying bear, named Prayer Bear. I know I know, the names are a font of originality. But he picked them.
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