Hi there
I've been trying to get my baby to take a bottle for a couple of months now. This hasn't been going well. She refuses to take formula but will take expressed milk if I give it to her between breastfeeding- she took 40ml in 3 minutes! However she was so spaced out didn't know it wasn't a breast i think :) She has a huge appetite and I am exhausted at trying to keep up with her demand- she's almost 4 months and needs to feed every 2 hours during the day- sometimes even every 1.5 hour!
I'm quite anxious as I need to return to work when she'll be 8 months and I really want to have stopped breastfeeding by then. Ideally I'd like her to be taking formula and solids. I just feel that this will never happen and I'll really upset her when it comes to the time.
Has anyone else gone through this? How did you manage it? She also needs a feed before she goes to bed, her sleeping isn't great as it is and I dread what will happen when I have to stop feeding her at night.
I know I may sound a bit odd thinking about this now but it's really playing on my mind and that's not a good thing when you're up through the night feeding- it's stopping me get the most of what little sleep I can get.
So if anyone has time to post any tips or 'how was it for you' stories I'd be so grateful.
Jx
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Baby won't take a bottle- how hard will stopping BFeeding be?
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JenniferR · 21/07/2011 19:41
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