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so i left dd with dh all day today for the first time ever

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DizzyBinterWonderland · 09/12/2006 18:38

she's 7 months now, and i'm going back to work when she's nearly 9 months.

i have been panicking as she won't take a bottle, she will only sip a little from a cup.

so today we bit the bullet. i left her with dh from 9am til 5pm while i went shopping 2 hours away..eek!

and you know what....it was fine. she took the bottle after some whinging. but once she realised i wasn't going to be coming home any time soon she took it! normally she has a sip here and there then tanks up when i get home. and i haven't dared leave her for so long before.

that's all really, just a good news story for those of us nervous about our babies who won't take a bottle.

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lulumama · 09/12/2006 18:39

good to hear that dizzy !!

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SherlockLGJ · 09/12/2006 18:40

First time I left DS with DH for the afternoon he was 4 months, he looked after him wonderfully.

He forgot to change his nappy for 5 hours but apart from that...............

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DizzyBinterWonderland · 09/12/2006 18:42

i got text alerts after each nappy change.

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mummynumnum · 09/12/2006 20:59

Great news-well done all of you. Just put a post on a previous thread asking how you got on and then I saw your new message. I will let you know how my lo and dh get on next week!!

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DizzyBinterWonderland · 09/12/2006 21:01

lol, just replied to your other post!! am trying to do too many things at once!

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MistletoeGolightly · 09/12/2006 21:03

Dizzy thank you for posting this! My DS (also 7 months) is just the same and I have been nervously avoiding a whole day out for months now. You have given me the impetus to do a solo Christmas shopping trip!

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DizzyBinterWonderland · 09/12/2006 21:05

yay! you go for it!

she expects milk when she wakes from each of her 3 naps. she refused the bottle after her first nap, but then took it after her second. i think by that time she realised i wasn't around.

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Blu · 09/12/2006 21:10

Good for you, Dizzy.

can I suggest that you give her a bottle once a day now until you go back t work?

DS guzzled down a bottle as if he had been doing it all his life in the preparation to me going back to work - we didn't do it regularly, and then when I did go back to work he steadfastly refused ever to drink from a bottle again.

Keep her in practice so that she doesn't connnect it with your new childcare arrangements - that would be my advice

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DizzyBinterWonderland · 09/12/2006 21:11

thanks blu.

she did used to have a bottle every night when dh helped with night feeds. but silly us didn't keep it up when night feeds dropped off.

we'll know for next baby!