I’d like my eight-month-old to stop breastfeeding Katie is eight months old and I have been using the routines since she was born. I am still breastfeeding but am going away for six days at the end of March. She has been breastfed exclusively and but she did take the bottle while we were feeding her at 10pm with expressed milk, although that stopped when she was 15 weeks old. I have a month to wean her off my boob. Can you please advise on the best way to go about it? I’m not sure whether to go straight on to a cup or beaker rather than a bottle, and…

I am having real problems getting my 8.5mth old son to drink formula from a cup My son sleeps and eats very well, following Gina’s routines to the letter. He has recently started refusing his 2.30pm bottle, (which is the only bottle he has) this feed I dropped two weeks ago. He has a breastfeed in the morning and then again at night. It’s the morning breastfeed I want to drop but he will not take formula from a cup. My son drinks juice and water from a cup and has done for the last 4mths. I have tried lots of different cups but always met with the same response,…

How can we get our 8.5mth old son to drink from a bottle? I’m not sure if my 8 1/2 month old gets enough milk at the 10.00pm feed. We would like my husband to give him some formula from a bottle but every bottle we have tried has been unsuccessful and he won’t take hardly any. It’s not too bad if we take the lid off and let him drink straight from the bottle but even then it’s still only about 2oz. He presently is fully breast fed taking 5-10mins at each feed throughout the day and night. He feeds at 7am, 10am, 2pm, 6.30pm, 10.30pm, 2am and 4am.…

My 6.5mth daughter still wakes several times in the night. Are her wakings habit rather than hunger? I wrote to you about a month ago and thank you for your advice, especially as it was just before Christmas. I have implemented everything you suggested but my daughter is still waking several times a night. Some days she eats her solids really well, other days she has almost nothing. In the last month she has gained 3 oz each week which is quite good for her. Are her night wakings habit rather than hunger now? I am trying to do the ‘core night’ and have got Gina’s sleep book, but several…

Question – Do breast-fed babies need extra vitamin D? My eight–month–old daughter is still breast–feeding, and I have heard that babies can get low in vitamin D. Why is this is a problem for breast–fed babies but not those on formula? What should I do about it? Answer: That is a really important question. There is growing concern among experts about low vitamin D levels in young children in Western countries, but little information has filtered down to mothers. It is particularly common in some ethnic groups with darker skin, in babies who are exclusively breast–fed without taking vitamin supplements, and in breast–fed babies whose mothers did not take vitamin…