Bottle weaning attempt 2

Attempt 2 of weaning my daughter off of her bottle is tonight.

After my first failed attempt, I did what all sleep deprived, crazy people do. I turned to FB groups for a solution.

There were some interesting suggestions, my favourite being that, the moon, stars and mars have to be alignment (who knew), some people tried to sell me special bottles and unfortunately 1 mom "mommy shamed" me because I was weaning my 1 year off her night-time bottles. Come on moms, let's stop that already!

Nevertheless, there was also a lot of great advice offered, which I have gathered, analysed and brought in to play for tonights "battle of wills".

And just as a back up, I will be rocking my own version of Rambo tonight. Girl Rambo or as I like to call it... Grambo....

Edit: googled Grambo and according to the urban dictionary it mean Rambos grandmother..... I may feel a billion years old thanks to sleep deprivation but I think we need a name change....

Let's go with mombo, yes mombo sounds good, mom plus Rambo = mombo - or not. Don't Google that....

I shall now call it Girambo (doubled checked, that's not a word but it is now!💪)

Anyway I'll update on how tonights Girambo, battle of wills, event goes.

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