I've been EBF my ten-week-old daughter. DH gives her a bottle of expressed milk every evening before she goes to bed and that's been working great for about six or seven weeks -- they get some quality time together and I get a chance to make dinner. Occasionally, baby needs a top-up after the bottle and she's been happy to take the breast.
Today, however, and on a couple of other occasions over the past two weeks or so, DD refuses the breast at other feedings and will only calm down and eat if given a bottle. Sometimes this happens when she's very tired. Today, for example, she didn't sleep well during the day and the only way I could get her to eat in the late afternoon was to give her a bottle. At bedtime, she refused a top-up by breast but was clearly still hungry, so she got another bottle.
I'm hoping this is a phase that will pass, but I'd be grateful for any insight or advice.
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Baby refusing the breast but taking a bottle
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edeluna · 27/05/2011 21:25
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