RE: Bottle weaning?
Colin gave up bottles on his own (just started refusing them one day), though he still nurses twice a day. But have you tried holding and snuggling him (like you do when you give him a bottle) but giving him his milk in a sippy instead? That's what DH does now when I am gone for the day, and Colin doesn't seem to mind. Taking away the bottle doesn't mean taking away that comfort necessarily (unless Ian thinks so, LOL), the comfort really comes in the holding and snuggling and the quiet time.
It's really up to you, though - it's not like you have to have him off of bottles next month, right?
Single mom to
DS ("twice exceptional") - September 2002
DS - February 2006
DD - July 2009
DD - July 2009