Hi, You don't know me either, but I found your journal when we both had SCHs. I've been reading it off and on since then. Our girls are much the same: that intoxicating personality type we're calling "zesty." At any rate, my kid has also always been a crappy go-to-sleeper. We nursed her down until she was weaned and now we give her a bottle at bed time. (She's 18 months) It's the /only thing/ that works. I know modern moms are supposed to trash the bottle at a year, but I see kids with pacis who are in frickity frick kindergarten and I wonder why that's OK but a bedtime bottle for a toddler isn't. At any rate, she is slowly growing less and less interested in her bed time bottle. We're hoping one day she wont' want it all. (My naivete never ceases to amaze me.) But even if we do have to wrest it from her fingers, we have a system that meets all our needs now and I feel no shame. Also, I've been reading your journals since you were preggers and you are not a mama failure. These are not the disposable words of a friend trying to cheer you up. I don't even know you. So there.
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You don't know me either, but I found your journal when we both had SCHs. I've been reading it off and on since then. Our girls are much the same: that intoxicating personality type we're calling "zesty."
At any rate, my kid has also always been a crappy go-to-sleeper. We nursed her down until she was weaned and now we give her a bottle at bed time. (She's 18 months) It's the /only thing/ that works. I know modern moms are supposed to trash the bottle at a year, but I see kids with pacis who are in frickity frick kindergarten and I wonder why that's OK but a bedtime bottle for a toddler isn't. At any rate, she is slowly growing less and less interested in her bed time bottle. We're hoping one day she wont' want it all. (My naivete never ceases to amaze me.) But even if we do have to wrest it from her fingers, we have a system that meets all our needs now and I feel no shame.
Also, I've been reading your journals since you were preggers and you are not a mama failure. These are not the disposable words of a friend trying to cheer you up. I don't even know you.
So there.