Okay, I lied...

 

I am still breastfeeding! Don't judge me. You caught me red-handed, or shall I say, with my chichi out. But I'm not pumping, so that was all true. I said to that Medela pump, I said, so loooong sucker!! But I did breastfedd her last night because she woke up and I just can't resist her little, tiny voice saying "mama?" But I did resist her wanting to nurse this afternoon and just diverted her attention to something else. Like, hey, s-o-l-i-d-s, hey, there's a concept. Today's menu so far was french toast, minus the syrup of course, since I don't give her sugar or salt. Then some brown rice with fava beans later in the day and some cream of wheat later on. Oh, and some banana of course. She loves banana! She says "mmmm anana" which basically means she wants to eat. That amazing little growing mind, I tell ya. But yeah, I need to seriously work on the sleep re-training so she's not getting up at night. And I'm also working hard on trying to wean her from the bottle. That's more important to me right now than weaning her from breastfeeding. I'm gonna give her six months, and hopefully it will work. It took me a minute to get her to use her sippy cup period. But now she's a pro at it to drink water from. But I started to put milk in her sippy cup and even though it's the same exact milk she drinks from her bottle, she takes a sip and makes this "ew what the heck is this" face, then puts it down and doesn't take another sip. But everyday, I'm going to continue giving her that milk in a sippy cup, until she gets used to it and hopefully completely forgets about bottles...and my breasts.

From what I read, at 12 months is your next window of opportunity with toddlers to re-train them to new schedules and habits. Because if you wait too long, once they reach the age of 2, it's much much harder to re-train since they are set in their ways. So I've got my work cut out for me for the next few months to get this bambina on track. Wish me luck!