hi all, athough i enjoy breastfeeding, i'd like to stop at 9 months, max 10 for selfish reasons of wanting to lose weight, diet etc, not to mentionhavign to be away from baby for a stretch of more than 8 hours for work related reasons. baby is almost 8.5 months old now.
after four differet kinds of bottles Avent, pigeon, nuk and mam, baby remains quite stubborn about not wanting the bottle. no matter if he is hungry and with the maid (while i'm at work) or my own attempts to gve him a dream feed, he steadily refuses (have tried EBM, and three different brands of fornula). what to do????????????
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Tinky
18 yrs ago
I am having the same problems with my 7.5month old.Have tried various bottle teats and sippy cups.I do not want to wean yet but would like to be able to leave him for more than 4 hours occasionally.I have a strong feeling I have left the intro of the bottle too late and hence all the issues.
What I can suggest to you from my experience with my second is just to wait it out as the feeds will just get less and less now.I introduced cows milk in sippy cups to both my elder kids at 10months.Number 1 reacted to it and was on goats milk until 1 year.No.2 has a stronger stomach and was fine with cows milk.After that it was just one BF morning and night.
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hi tinky, how much milk does your baby take from the sippy cup? mine drinks max an ounce of water during his meals from the sippy cup.
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fel
18 yrs ago
hi ..just wanna share my weaning experience. both my girls were fully breastfed since birth, cos both oso refuse to take bottle since birth. i tried using diff brand of bottle, teats, etc, but just didnt work. for my elder one, she will take water or juice fr her bottle, but not milk (EBM or FM). When she was 2yr old (then i was pregnant with my nos 2), i was determined to wean her. so i started feeding her forumla milk using spoon. very tedious process, but am glad she take it. For the formula milk, i gave her chocolate flavour cos tried many brand & taste and this is the only one she accepted. initially was only an oz, slowly to 3oz etc. finally when she accepted it, we switch it to bottle and eventually accepted it.
for my nos 2, i started the weaning process when she turned 1. cos was concerned that as they grow older, be harder. Like my elder one , she also refused bottle since birth. But i was so surprised that she took her first milk bottle at 1yr old when i introduced it to her. there was no struggle. Initially was a feed, and finally when she turned 16mos old, i totally weaned her off.
My 2nd weaning experience was much easier, cos i think my nos 2 been seeing her elder sister drinking milk from bottle and hence, she naturally accepted it well.
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My baby is turning one and I'm planning to gradually introduce him to milk other than BM too. Like fel I'm also worried that this will be harder when he gets older. Right now he's on 3 milk feeds a day - direct BF moring and night, expressed BM at mid day. But this mid day one he's taking less and less. I put the milk in sippy cup and he only drinks 1 or 2 oz. ... Guess this is the feed that could be replaced first?
Tried adding cow's milk into his cereal but he spits it out. So I'm also nervous about this whole weaning process.
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fel thanks, i tried to give him a bit of formula with his breakfast with a teaspoon, i din't get so far as one ounce, but it's a start.
maybe i should show him other babies that take milk from bottles. he's now taken to doing what his dad does, so maybe i should give baby and hubby a bottle each and sit them down somewhere!!!!
my pediatrician wasn't so helpful, just said, well you will have to struggle with him...
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But breastfeeding uses calories which helps you to lose weight!?!
Try using a regular cup and do taste the formula...maybe your baby doesn't like the taste.
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hi. I just weaned my 5 month old boy to bottle for two days already! (after many many attempts). My bub has refused bottled since 2 months old.
I noticed he doesn't know how to suck the bottle, since direct latch on and bottle sucking uses different jaw muscles, and sucking rhythm. I thus have no choice but to introduce pacifier as i believe it is the same sucking rhythm as bottle. He too initially refuses pacifier, rather i should say, he hasn't learnt the sucking skill. Once i know he sucks well on pacifier, i use bottle on him again. i had been successful once for three days, after which, surprisingly, he stops. main reason is because i only bottle feed him once a day only, and continue with breastfeeding also. then, two days back, i decided that once he takes bottle, i m not going to direct breastfeed him anymore. initially he refuses the bottle, but magically, my mother in law holds a toy in front of him and play with him while i bottle feed, he then just took it beautifully!! (i think he was distracted!) since then, i bottled feed him throughout (except mid-nite feeding as i was lazy to express). he has no problem thus far.
also, m using pigeon wide neck peristalis (oops..not sure of the spelling).
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ruth, when i just had the baby, i had great difficulty bf as my milk didn't 'come in'. baby didn't want to latch on and it was a big job building up supply. my mum thinking it was because my calorie intake, liquid intake etc wasn't enough constanty fed me up with big mugs of milk, ovaltine, etc. both during the day and the night. i just got into the habit of eating more, drinking more, and i0m hungry more often than i've ever been.
besides i seem to be using bf as an excuse to eat more. so i need to stop. also so i can do things like no carb diets for a few weeks to start the ball rolling...
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I started mixing formula feeds with bm feeds when my daughter was 6 months. Nothing very concrete, but mostly bm in the morning and at night and then formula during the day. The ONLY nipple she would use is the Playtex Most Like Mother, I use in with the Playtex Drop-Ins System and they are terrific. I found them in Guangzhou at Tee Mall in the store that spans almost all the floors (sorry don't know the name) My daughter is almost 9 months and the sippy cup transfer isn't going so well. Good luck to us all raising kids in foreign lands!!!!!!!
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You can offer all fluids in a cup, sippy cup or with a straw, no need to use a bottle. We recommend introducing a cup when solids are commenced at 6 months and usually recommend weaning baby from a bottle by one year of age.
You can also disguise the milk either formula or EBM with food. Try a fruit smoothie, add EBM to cereal, make a custard or soup etc. Provide lots of other calcium rich foods.
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