8 month DD started refusing bottles again - agggh!

[jezmond]

Hi, weaning going great with 8 month old DD. However, it is now a fight to get her to take bottles! Had the same problem when I moved from breast to bottle feeding. I've tried giving it to her in a cup but she just takes a few mouthfuls and spits it out. How much formula milk should a baby this age be getting?

[DimpledThighs]

I don't know on the formula but I had to perververe with a cup before my son finally got the idea.

Good luck - hope some better advice comes soon!

[MellowMa]

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[DimpledThighs]

thinking about it I went back to work when ds was 8 months. His father had him at home and could not get him to take a bottle so they made do with yoghurts and cereal and then he had a mammouth feed when I got back.

[firststeps]

iirc think it is minimum of 12ozs a day but this includes yoghurts, milk in cooking etc, if this is wrong though anyone please correct me . She might be filling up too much on food and not have any room left for milk rather than refusing the bottle. My ds at this age was on 2 x 6 oz bottles (first and last thing) and a small feed mid afternoon

[CantSlimWontSlim]

20oz (1 pint) a day is the recommended minimum until they are 1 (but this includes any used in cooking).

[fizzbuzz]

Yes, it is a pint a day. I had this trouble with both ds and dd.

By 9 months ds was having NO bottles. (mouth would clamp shut, I even tried putting sugar in bottles such was my desperation...just shoot me now)Anyway it made no difference.

I just stuffed him full of yoghurt at every opportunity. He is huge now. Less stressed about dd who isn't as bad, but still not keen on bottle, so she gets the yoghurt treatment as well....

[jezmond]

Thanks. I am trying to give her loads of yoghurts and milky type sauces/cereals. Might be a coincidence, but DD cutting top two teeth just now. Could this be putting her off her milk?

[cc21]

Jez - I'm having this dilema too. DD refuses bottle except bedtime where she has about 5 oz. I give her yogurt/cheese with everything, and loosen her meals up with a bit of formula. I even spent yesterday making rice pudding and cheess sauces. Anything with milk!!!!

Although I am now panicking she will dehydrate as she goes all day just having a few sips of water as a drink. I so wish I had carried on the b/f further into weaning

[cc21]

Think DD teething too, and has been told this can put them off milk/food

[fizzbuzz]

cc21, my daughter was also a camel at one stage, refusing practically all fluids.

Plenty of wet nappies though, which HV said was what counted, so just left it to dd.

She is better now and will drink water, but not overly keen on milk. Does any baby drink a lot of milk at this age?

However she has now gone off spoon food as well, and prefers finger food. In desperation tipped an entire pot of yoghurt on her high chair table, hoping she would sort of scoop it up.......no chance, she just wiped it EVERYWHERE.

I started a thread about cereal bars with yoghurt in to make as finger foods. Made them, and they were yummy......she just mashed it up though (sigh)

She likes homemade cheese straws though which are full of cheese, but of course won't eat fingers of cheese........

Have somewhat given up in weariness