This isn't on the seperation subject, but if you can't get her to take a bottle, maybe you should go straight to a cup when you're ready to start weaning her.
This is purely my personal experience so I don't know if works for every baby, but I got Amy to take one of the sippy cups without a valve easier than a fancy bells-and-whistles leak-proof cup. You know, the old-school plastic ones that just have a mouthpiece with a slit. I read somewhere that these are better than leak-proof cups when it comes to teaching them to drink because they have to suck on a valved cup to get the liquid out, but when they drink without a valve they actually have to figure out how to hold the water in their mouths and then swallow. Sure, they almost drown themselves a few times and you have to teach them not to flip their cups upside down, spill everywhere, and play in their drink, but they'll get the hang of it soon enough and it's a skill they have to learn eventually. Besides, those cups are way cheaper than the fancy ones. Anyway, that's my long way of saying that Amy now prefers the cup over the bottle because it doesn't take her 20 minutes to finish her drink. Maybe Hannah would have better luck learning the new experience of a cup instead of settling for a bottle over mom.
Oh - and on the seperation thing, last night I was looking forward to Bible Study and I went to church all ready for it, only to be able to hear Amy screaming down the hall after two songs and three prayer requests. I spent the rest of the time in the nursery (I couldn't go home because my husband was helping with the youth) holding her because she screamed even if I set her on the floor by my feet. And I couldn't just leave her because her crying was distracting the entire building and there's a three year-old that gets jealous of the attention Amy gets from the nursery worker and then lashes out. Before I got there, this girl slammed Amy's fingers in a toy. At the end of the night I had really awkward conversation with her mom as she ernestly apologized for her daughter's behavior and told me to let her know every time she did something. Normally I would be really upset if some bratty kid is picking on a baby, but this is a foster kid who has more or less been abandoned by her birth mother and her foster mom is working really hard on undoing all the damage for the poor girl. Of course if Amy was picking on another kid I would do exactly the same thing and not put up with it, but I felt bad that the mom has to deal with this becasue she's taking care not only that girl, but her two older sisters and two natural children and I really admire her for it. Anyway, that's, again, my long way of saying that I feel your pain when your baby won't let you leave her alone!
This is purely my personal experience so I don't know if works for every baby, but I got Amy to take one of the sippy cups without a valve easier than a fancy bells-and-whistles leak-proof cup. You know, the old-school plastic ones that just have a mouthpiece with a slit. I read somewhere that these are better than leak-proof cups when it comes to teaching them to drink because they have to suck on a valved cup to get the liquid out, but when they drink without a valve they actually have to figure out how to hold the water in their mouths and then swallow. Sure, they almost drown themselves a few times and you have to teach them not to flip their cups upside down, spill everywhere, and play in their drink, but they'll get the hang of it soon enough and it's a skill they have to learn eventually. Besides, those cups are way cheaper than the fancy ones. Anyway, that's my long way of saying that Amy now prefers the cup over the bottle because it doesn't take her 20 minutes to finish her drink. Maybe Hannah would have better luck learning the new experience of a cup instead of settling for a bottle over mom.
Oh - and on the seperation thing, last night I was looking forward to Bible Study and I went to church all ready for it, only to be able to hear Amy screaming down the hall after two songs and three prayer requests. I spent the rest of the time in the nursery (I couldn't go home because my husband was helping with the youth) holding her because she screamed even if I set her on the floor by my feet. And I couldn't just leave her because her crying was distracting the entire building and there's a three year-old that gets jealous of the attention Amy gets from the nursery worker and then lashes out. Before I got there, this girl slammed Amy's fingers in a toy. At the end of the night I had really awkward conversation with her mom as she ernestly apologized for her daughter's behavior and told me to let her know every time she did something. Normally I would be really upset if some bratty kid is picking on a baby, but this is a foster kid who has more or less been abandoned by her birth mother and her foster mom is working really hard on undoing all the damage for the poor girl. Of course if Amy was picking on another kid I would do exactly the same thing and not put up with it, but I felt bad that the mom has to deal with this becasue she's taking care not only that girl, but her two older sisters and two natural children and I really admire her for it. Anyway, that's, again, my long way of saying that I feel your pain when your baby won't let you leave her alone!
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