8mo dd won't take bottle, back at work in 3 weeks!!!!

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Please can anyone advise, have been bfing my dd but due back at work shortly (and would also like to regain a social life now) so have been trying now for weeks to get her to have formula milk from a bottle but the most she'll ever actually have is about half an ounce. She eats well now but aware she still needs milk so end up bfing her before bed, she wakes up in the night most nights and feeding her is the only way to get her back off again! Not wanting to express my milk as really never liked doing it.

This happened to me. I tried expressing but I don't think it made much difference, it was the bottle he didn't like.
Unfortunately, I just had to leave him to it. The nursery tried twice a day (iirc) and after about a week he gave in and accepted it. It was hard but was fine in the long run.

AT 8 months I would continue exactly as you are. No expressing just feed evening and night and when you go for nights out get your partner/minder to give her a cup of milk and maybe walk her to sleep in buggy. I hgave ds 4.5 ounces of formula a day between 9-12 mths the rest of milk he got was from me when I was around. Otherwise he had solids. It was nice after work getting the bf cuddles and having somethign to put him back to sleep if when he woke during the night.

Thanks, I'm worried she is just not going to have fornula milk as she knows will get breast milk at night and waking at night because she wants more (and honestly I cba making a bottle up at that time!) did your ds settle at night with someone else, she has always fed to sleep at night, and of course only with me so don't want to leave anyone in the lurch if she just doesn't settle! Definately a down side of breast feeding!

Yes my ds did settle for someone else at night as long as some milk came his way. We have a cup with a straw and he got my milk, formula or the odd time cow's milk as he got towards one. I expressed for a few weeks and I was totally peed off with it as I had to use another bulding so I just stopped and all was fine. He did wake up a bit more at night for feeds but I actually loved it because I missed him during the day. It was so much easier than I thought it would be. Good luck.

Ah thanks I will keep trying with the cup then see if she'll take any more on oh can take over some nights too. I guess I will be secretly wanting nighttime cuddles too once back t's work