I wrote about my problems letting go of my baby in an earlier post. I was prolonging her time on the bottle for attachment. I feel we made huge progress in our attachment goals and I did not feel the need to keep her on it any longer. I know that children should be weaned from the bottle around 12-14 months and here she is 22 months old. It is time.

We did it… we are bottle free. It was no problem for our daughter, but then again she was only getting one a day. We had slowly weaned her down from 3 a day to 1 a day. She has not asked for it and never really was attached to it. We introduced the bottle in Russia. She had to learn how to drink from a bottle. I know that sounds funny but she had been drinking from a mug in the orphanage and was not use to the whole sippy cup or bottle thing. Initially I had to remove the valves from her cups until she got the hang of it.


I think it was hard for me to say goodbye to the bottle as it is the last baby like thing I had. I do grieve not having a baby and because she may be my only child, I really wanted to hold on to that stage just a little longer. My sister-in-law has a six month old doing all these new things little rolling over and I grieve not being able to experience that with my daughter. A cashier had asked me a question about my daughter’s teeth, she has many teeth and the cashier had a son the same age as Livi and she asked me when my daughter got her teeth in. I don’t know? It was awkward to say. I don’t know actually.


I try not to dwell on the first things I missed with Livi. Instead I try to look back on all the first things we got to experience together and will experience together soon. I got to have my bottle moments for nearly six months. I will really miss those nightly bottle cuddles but I’m thankful that we at least had some baby time.