Baby bottle
A hungry baby does not wait, and the whole house can tell. With a simple picture of the bottle, both the little one and the older sibling know what comes next, and the wait feels a little shorter. See the visual support below.
Baby bottle
A baby bottle with a yellow ring and measuring marks.
Warming the bottle
A baby bottle of milk with heat waves around it.
Bottle of warm milk
A baby bottle of warm milk with yellow heat waves.
About this visual support
The bottle is often the first visual a small child recognises. Long before words arrive, a baby links its shape with fullness and closeness, and a picture of the bottle can become a way of showing what she wants. For older siblings the same picture does something else: it explains why mum or dad suddenly sits still for a while and cannot play.
The pattern is easy to show in three pictures. The bottle is warmed, the temperature is tested against the wrist, and then feeding happens at a calm pace with a pause for burping. The older sibling can get a picture of their own next to it, such as fetching the dummy or sitting close with a book, so that waiting gets a job instead of turning into a contest for attention.
A practical tip is to put the picture on the fridge where the bottle is prepared. When the baby starts fussing, you can point at it and say now we warm the bottle, and the older child sees straight away that it is on its way. If you want bottles, naps and nappy changes in one shared schedule, there is Routined, which you can try free for 14 days.
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