Weaning off totally

Since he turned down the breast milk, Mommy called it weaning off has already been accomplished.
Richie is now in total cow's milk. And so far so good even though he drinks half a little every day.
He's not kinda of a milk person, he prefers to eat than drink milk which is a good sign.

In the morning, he drinks 150ml milk, afternoon he drinks 120ml and before sleeping at night he drinks 150ml
and mommy gave him yoghurt 60ml in the morning after strolling to the park.

He also sleeps through the night now, from 930pm to 7am which makes mommy sleeps well too.
Finally, mommy can sleep through the night again yeay....

The next training will be sleeping alone at his bedroom...

Turn Down Breast milk

Starting yesterday, Richie turned down breast milk when mommy wanted to breastfeed him.
He just stared at mommy and mommy's breast and didn't want to suck.
Then last night, he never touch mommy's breast when he suddenly cranky around 3am 'cos of blocked nose, mommy offered him breast milk to soothe him. But he rejected completely.

This morning, when he's sleepy, usually he will fall a sleep during breast feeding but when mommy offer him again. He simply turn it down and prefer carried by mommy to bring him to sleep.
Well, perhaps it's the time he wants to completely wean off from breast milk
That will be a good and bad news. Good news, mommy would be able to sleep through the night and he will be more independent. Bad news, his milk intake need to be increased even though he's not a "milk person"

His daily intake is now around 380ml of cows milk
One in the morning 140ml and another one is at night before sleeping 140ml. And mommy gave him yoghurt 60ml and milk pudding.
Mommy need to add one more feeding in the afternoon so at least he takes 500ml of milk daily.

Mommy's sick, Daddy took over

After Richie recovered from fever, few days later, on Friday to be exact, mommy's down with cold.
No fever, only runny and blocked nose. But it's pretty severe 'cos mommy can't smell or taste any food.
That's why during the weekend, Friday and Saturday night, Richie slept with daddy and also played with daddy.
At least mommy had 2 good nights sleep and had enough rest beside taking medicine.

On Sunday afternoon, mommy felt better and did some housework, and also Sunday night mommy slept with Richie 'cos daddy needed to go to work the next morning.

Now, mommy was feeling better even though some times there's a little bit runny and blocked nose.
Richie was a good boy, during 2 nights, he almost never woke up at night and looking for mommy frequently.
Only once around 1am and another day was around 5am.
Then on Sunday, Richie only woke up around 6.30am and he slept through the night...

Very well done boy!
and another complement for daddy, who's been almost full time daddy taking over mommy's duty except feeding and bathing Richie...
Thank you daddy muach muach....

Survive without asking milk or asking less milk

On Saturday night, Richie slept with daddy instead of mommy, 'cos we wanted to know whether he's just looking for comfort by sucking into mommy 's breast or he's really hungry.
And as expected, he woke up 4x with closed eyes looking for mommy and since mommy's not around, daddy carried him for a while until he went sleep again.

But he survived until morning without having any milk, and he drank milk a lot in the morning during breakfast....
The next day, Richie slept again with mommy, cos daddy needed enough sleep to work the next day.
And gotcha, Richie just slept through the night and only asked the milk at about 5 or 6 am.
On Monday night, Richie again slept through even though he's not feeling well yesterday and had fever
He only asked the milk about 6 am


Good job ! meaning he could wean off from breast milk at night and mommy could sleep well too

Fresh Milk (13 months old )

Since Richie turned to 13th month age, he suddenly refused to drink pediasure. It seems that Richie is not a milk person. He only likes breastmilk so far.
But, under 2 years old, full fat milk is very important for his growth. Therefore, mommy decided to buy 200ml Meiji Fresh Milk. First, he rejected when mommy warmed the milk up. But when mommy gave him the chilled one, he accepted it even though he drank a little bit.

And turned out that his body could accept the fresh milk, therefore mommy decided to give him fresh milk, chocolate flavour.
He seemed like it, especially when it's chilled.
So, mommy decided to alternate the milk, morning time will be Pediasure for breakfast and afternoon and night time will be fresh milk

less for MORE

Suddenly Richie's appetite was back again since last monday, exactly after he passed 13th month.
When mommy gave him his meal during lunch and dinner, he ate very fast and never spitted out.
Well, mommy was so happy.

Previously, since he didn't want to sit still for more than  5 mins, mommy gave him half of his usual portion.
And when mommy gave him last monday, he seemed hungry and asked when mommy ate.

So, on Wednesday, mommy add to become 3/4 of his usual portion to see whether he finished it. And he did it.

Finally mommy found the solution if he didn't have enough appetite, mommy will give him less and let him ask for more. I guess it works for us.

The moral of the story :
If the desire of eating comes from the child, it will be easier to feed him instead of forcing him to eat
Always give less than what he wants, to make him wants more

On the other hand, the weaning is still in progress. It's kinda of up and down though.
But mommy always tries to be consistent at least giving him 135ml milk in the morning. The rest of the days depends on his meal and mood. Other alternatives, mommy gave him a tub of yoghurt everyday and a slice of milk pudding (made from his formula milk + agar agar powder)

Weaning Progress to Formula Milk

After stopping weaning to formula milk about 2 weeks, now mommy is starting to wean again.
Mommy changed the formula milk from similac to Pediasure.
First, he didn't really like it 'cos it has strong sweet taste if mommy mix the powder and water according to the instruction. Then mommy reduced the portion of powder to water so 1 scoop of powder to 90ml.
And Richie liked it, 'cos it's still has sweet taste but not so thick...close to breastmilk taste ....
Today he can finish it 2x90 ml within 1.5 hours.

Well, eventhough in his age, he should drink at least 5x200ml, mommy was happy he didn't spit the milk out like before.
Hopefully, it goes smoothly

Starting to wean from breastmilk to formula milk

From 10 months old, mommy is starting to wean Richie from breastmilk to formula milk.
The reason is so Richie can have a good night sleep, because he has a habit to ask milk around 3 times at night, and mommy's milk is also decreasing in terms of quantity and quality. Besides next year mommy and daddy are planning to have a long honeymoon and Richie will stay with oma, therefore Richie must be independent from mommy.

Well, it's not easy in the first place, he only drank 30ml by spout.
But after few days, he can drink 60ml, then last weekend mommy added the milk to 90ml and he can finish it.
Yesterday, mommy gave 120ml and he finished them all eventhough it's not one go.

I guess his milk would be around 180 - 200 ml to make him satisfied. But that's okay, mommy also needs to empty the breast as well...hehe...
Good job boy, hopefully the weaning goes well and smoothly.