tanya29

my 5th little monster was born and decided he was not under any circumstances avin a bottle like all his siblings so i thought what the hell breast is best and he loved it...the problem being he loved it way too much and would not have a bottle at all i didnt mind in the beginning then he started to get older and still wanted his beloved boobies just as much...i felt like they belonged to him...but...then he grew a full set of gnashers and he thought it real clever to tease his mummy by pretending that he was gonna bite...only once did he actually ever bite me when he was about 9 mths old and i SOON corrected that one...

anyway to cut a long story short...i got pregnant with my six child and thought well enoughs enough but he had other ideas...my health visitor told me to just take him off and let him scream for it...a bit difficult when he liked em to go to sleep and about 5 times during the nite...

well anyway the trick is to get your partner to put a little amount of mustard on em when ur child is asking for em and then say did daddy put yukkies on em...durty boobies...he will soon turn his back on em realising they dont taste too good...the mummy doesnt feel guilty cause daddy gets the blame...and mammy gets her boobies back which is a bonus...yippee!!!

bexxie

I'm not sure I find that funny,mustard?

tanya29

yes i did check with my health visitor first and she assured me it would do him no harm...and when i say little i mean just the tip of a little finger...u used to be able to buy stuff from the chemist that has a similar affect apart from it tasted far worst a little like nail biting fluid...i wasnt gonna use that...

i would never do anything to harm my child and my health visitor has also told me she has passed the knowledge on to a few other mums who are at the end of their tether with their boobie toddlers...

bexxie

dont worry I wasnt being funny hun,I have a weird sense of humour.

Must be weird for child to give boobies up I reckon when they have been used to it for so long. My babe pushed mine away 2 weeks ago I could have cried she is 10 months.

Good luck for your baby btw (just read your other post)
B.x

tanya29

i wasnt taking it funny hun...i reacted the same way when my gran suggested it...i absolutely loved breastfeeding him and when i did make him give em up i felt guilty and relieved all in one go...i hadnt had an hour away from him since the day he was born as i couldnt leave him with anyone as he would kick off for em...and i didnt have a good nights sleep either as he was awake 5 times a night lookin for em...

anyhow it took me bout 4 days and now he drinks juices and milk and really doesnt miss em at all...but all that time of breastfeeding has given us an ever so close bond he dotes on me and me him...

thanx for wishing my baby well too hun...im on here trying to take my mind off it as much i can...

Iwantone!!!

aaww glad it worked hunni ur amazing to do it for 2 1/2 years that really good the bond u have with him will not go away it just grow in different ways xx

Samo

The mustard thing is EXACTLY what my mother in law tells me she used on my DH got him off the bottle and onto the sippy cups ASAP. It really does work, and mustard, of course, is no harm for the child, but they are not fond of the taste one bit. (you can also say the mustard is icky things like poo etc and that further turns off the child!!)

tanya29

definately...breastfeeding was a new experience for me and the fact i had to breastfeed him for so long as he wouldnt take any juices or bottles made me feel closer to him as most toddlers tend to get real independant but mine was dependant on me a lot longer...now tho he enjoys spending time with other family members and gives me more freedom too...i bottled 4 of my children (expressed for my 2nd as he was a 30 wk prem) but even tho i love them to bits...and i love their cuddles it was completely dif with the baby...wish i had tried it with all my children

Wobbles

So anyone who doesn't bf isn't natural and doesn't have/want a big bond with their child?

I feel really close to my daughter & she is bottle fed - some are unable to breast feed that certainly doesn't take bonding away from Mum.

If I had of breast fed I can't have seen me doing it past a year.

hypnorm

You can still have a very close bond with bottle feeding, i'm sure you didnt want to upset people but might be best to think before making comments like that. Some people have wanted to BF but have not been able to.

I BF Ewan till 9 months, as soon as the teeth came the boobies went! it felt right for me as i wanted my body back, and was also TTC no2. Was very sad when i eventually stopped.