The Presson Family

Christian had his 1 year well visit with Dr. Huger on Wednesday, June 30th.  He did really well.  He now weighs 23 lbs 8 ozs and is 31 inches long.  She said he's developing beautifully.  The one thing she wants us to change is to have him drink all milk from a sippy cup instead of his bottle.  So we took all the bottles away cold turkey yesterday!  Ahhh!  He misses it for sure but is doing pretty well considering.  She also wants us to cut his milk intake in half.  He was drinking (4) 8oz bottles/day which is waaay too much.  He should be drinking between 15-20oz instead.  She said cutting out the bottle will help decrease his milk intake too.

The hardest part of this will be night time.  He loved that last bottle before bed.  I gave him a sippy of milk to drink last night in the living room and he drank about 12 ounces from that.  Then I took him in his room to rock him to sleep and he ended up crying about 30 minutes before giving it up.  Poor baby!!!  =(  Hopefully tonight will go better.  I'm happy this is a long holiday weekend since I'll be home with him and work on drinking from the sippy.  I feel just as bad for Eddie as I do for Christian.  It's not easy to be the caregiver and get through tough changes like this one.  Hopefully it won't take long for him to forget all about the bottle. 

::fingers crossed::