I'm sure all my neighbors are concerned about Aiden's well being. Only because he has spent the last 3 days crying at the top of his lungs for his bottle.
Aiden is in love with his bottle. I have tried twice to get him off it and now that he is 2 he really should be off it.
The first 2 times I only let him have his bottle when he was in his crib. We have watering down his milk until it is just nasty water with a tiny bit of milk. I have tried giving him only water. But he doesn't care because then he just sucks air from the nipple and doesn't suck the liquid.
How is it going? Lets just say now I know why people get their babies off of bottles at early ages. I have weaned lots of daycare kids from the bottle but Aiden is by FAR the hardest kid I have every experienced.
The first day wasn't so bad. He definitely wanted it and let me know it. He only cried at night for about 45 minutes and then fell asleep. Not too bad.
The second day. He screamed for it all morning. No tears but a loud piercing "I want it and you better give it to me cuz I'm not going to quit screaming until I get it." By noon he was exhausting from all the screaming. I put him in time out twice and that just upset him more. To make matters worse he has completely boycotted every sippy cup, and refuses to eat food. So he is hungry and mad at the same time. BAD COMBINATION. Everything I give him just makes him more mad. Matt describes it as punch drunk mad.
We first saw this side of Aiden when he was 12 months old. Aiden fell and bit threw his bottom lip so Matt took him to the ER and in the waiting room Aiden kept grabbing his sippy cup and flinging it accost the room. Turns out that the sippy cup had orange juice and I took the stopper out so he could suck the juice because of the pulp clogged it. So Aiden is seeing RED, and orange juice is all over the room. Serves them right for making him wait for hours!
Back to the bottle.
So yesterday was the second day he had gone without his bottle. He cried a good portion of the day. I sent Aiden with Matt to young mens so that I could have a break from him. Turns out he was just fine with Matt and the second he gets home Aiden runs to the draw that had his bottles and started to FREAK OUT! PUNCH DRUNK MAD!!! I keep showing him that the bottles are gone and offer him a sippycup with chocolate milk, or juice and every time he grabs it and throws it. Then he sits down under the bottle drawer and cries. Then he brings me to the bottle drawer and again freaks out. Nothing soothes him. So by that time it is like 9 o'clock which is past his bed time so I put him in his crib and he starts to freak out. I read him a couple stories-he is mad and crying the entire time. I'm sure by now the neighbors are worried and any second we are going to get a phone call regarding why we are torturing him. Next I sing songs-still mad. By then my head is ringing so I kiss him goodnight and off goes the lights. -note: he normally never cries when I put him to bed.
The next 2 HOURS he screamed at the top of his lungs in his crib. He feel out of his crib once and I even took him on a car rid hopefully trying to get him asleep. Well I made it one block and turned around because he was screaming so loud I thought my head would explode. So I put him back in his crib and continues to act out of control. I let him cry for about 1/2 hour and then I rocked him until he fell asleep in my arms. Then when I put him in his crib he woke up and back to the screaming. By then I was so frustrated and wanted to cry but there is no way I was going to give in because I am not going to go threw this again!!!! He cried for about 10 minutes and then fell asleep.
Today is day three and this morning was also bad. He cried for about 2 hours. He would only take milk from a cup (but it couldn't have a top on it) so I had to follow behind him to clean up any spilled milk-which was a lot because he is still mad and spilled it when he walked. For nap time I gave him a treat and his sippy cup and he actually drank from it so I think we are making some progress. Tonight is game night so I will be gone when I put him down which is good because Matt seems to handle the crying better then I do. I think that after hearing him cry for like 3 days straight is just emotionally exhausting.
He seems much happier today and is even laughing! I am so glad because I don't know how much more I can take.
2 comments:
I am SO sorry you have to go through that! I feel your pain. Hopefully things will continue to get better. Feel free to bring him over if you need a break. I am close and Charlie loves having company!
how sad. but....dont give in. especially if you have done threw 3 days of it. The more days he is without it he will realize it does not matter anymore and will forget it. That makes me worried about getting jaxon off the bottle. YIKES~!
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