Weaning advice!!! please help!!?

At 8 months, she can do 'baby led weaning' and start finger foods instead of some bland, tasteless puree. Have you ever tried those jar peas? YUK! And four spoons (half jar) is about the right amount for her age. As for bottle, again she is too old. She needs to start with a cup. You can pump your milk and put it in a bottle, she should still be getting most of her nutrition from breast milk till about age 1. The day care can try to get her to take a cup or bottle. In any way, she will scream for the first few weeks in day care and they will stick her in a crib to cry it out. She will eventually understand 'if I am hungry I need to use that bottle'. Don't worry though, the day care 'teachers' aka $8 an hour workers will tell you baby did fine that day and had fun.

http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/03/13/baby-essential...

She needs you more then your job does. Nurseing is what comforts her and is so healthy and perfect for her .

If the problem is just while you're at work, then the care giver you will be using can teach her to take a cup or bottle in your absence. Start the transition slowly over several days to a week and a half. there is no need for her to ever take a bottle from you, so let someone else handle it in your absence.

Your daughter's pediatrician has probably come across this situation before and might be able to offer some advice. If not, then you could call a lactation consultant and ask for advice. Sorry I don't have anything more specific than that to offer. I hope it works out for you.

...uh. why? This doesn't make a lot of sense. What benefit do you think giving a bottle is going to offer?

Google "baby-led weaning," give her finger food and relax and let her enjoy herself, and...and relax. Of course she wants to nurse; she's an 8mo baby. Solids are just for fun and practice at this point. No point in buggering up your nursing with bottles (or sippies, which are just bottles with the teat to the side). Introduce an open cup by letting her mooch sips out of yours.

"I'm a first time mom and the first one in my fam that breastfed so no one has any clue.."

People who nurse do not need to use bottles -- stop sticking them in her face every day; she doesn't want it, she's getting rather on the old side to introduce one.

Have a read through http://kellymom.com/ages/older-infant/ebf-benefits...

there's no need for you to force her to take a bottle. she should have been introduced to a sippy cup around 6 months. start giving her your breastmilk in a sippy cup instead.

also, you could try spoon feeding the bresatmilk to her to get her more used to a spoon for solids.