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If you bottle fed your baby........

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NewBethlehemGirlwithsparkles · 13/12/2005 13:51

What formula did you use and what food likes or dislikes do your childrean have now?

The reason I ask is that after a thread the other day, "What's the best Formula", alot of people said how they had actually tried it themselves. Aptimil, Hipp Organic and Cow and Gate came up as the best as people said it tasted creamier and the likes of other brands like SMA were quite bitter.

I fed my dd SMA Gold. It wasn't a educated decision. I was adamant I was going to be BF but due to a myseterious lack of milk and an inverted nipple , I couldn't. I had to establish feeding before we were to be discharged from hospital and I found that SMA Gold was the more popular formula on the ward, therefore thats what I used.

What I'm wondering is if the SMA is quite bitter, would this have have had an effect on dd's taste buds and would it have made a difference to what she likes today?

What do you think?

Do you think this

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doormat · 14/12/2005 13:05

NBG i bottle fed all my children cow and gate and then on to cow and gate plus as they got greedier.
Ds2 was also on cow and gate until he was put on soya milk at around 6 months old.

Apart from ds2 (who is tube fed) all the other children have healthy appetites and will eat anything put in front of them.
Dd2 is a vegetarian since she was a baby, does not like the texture of meat for some reason.

Bozza · 14/12/2005 13:07

I would have thought a bitter tasting formula would help a baby to establish a wider range of tastes than a sweet one, in theory. But actually I think its partially down to weaning and partially down to luck what they end up eating.

Cristina7 · 14/12/2005 13:08

I must have tried all powder milks with DS. He seemed to prefer Farleys, if I remember well. He's 6 now and a fussy eater, but eats anything during growth spurts.

RosiePosie · 14/12/2005 13:22

Sackache wrote: "RosiePosie - Totally at your post!!! OMG! Didn't you read the original post at all???

What an insensitive horrible post that was.... you can't dress it up. It was just purely a stirring, obnoxious post for the sake of a bit of controversy."

In all honesty that is not how I meant it to come across at all. I responding to Notquitecockney's comment "who cares what it tastes like to us?"

I care - that is why I posted! Nowhere have I said that other people are wrong for giving their babies something that I think is bitter - it's just not something I wanted to do personally. I can't believe how badly you have misinterpreted the meaning of my post. I can't believe I'm sitting here crying because of it.

weesaidie · 14/12/2005 13:38

Hmmmm, now I feel a little bad that I never tasted the formula . I did taste a little breast milk and I must say I wasn't keen!

My dd had formula now and then from about 5/6 months and all formula from 9 months til 1 year.

She had SMA blue then red.

She is now 20 months and eats pretty well. Some days not much, some days loads but she does have all sorts... pasta, different meats, prawns, potatoes, veg, curries and so on.

bosscatsroastingonanopenfire · 14/12/2005 13:43

It didn't occur to me to taste either of the formula's my ds's had. ds1 had farleys on recommendation of health visitor and ds2 had sma gold because my friend used that and she's a GP I didn't taste my breast milk either though.

bosscatsroastingonanopenfire · 14/12/2005 13:44

ds1 great eater and ds2 terrible eater. Maybe some truth in SMA gold then?

laundrylover · 14/12/2005 13:45

RP don't get upset it's only MN! Don't go raising your BP! I can't really see how your post was in any way controversial and I don't think the original post was over sensitive or panicky.
For what it's worth I used Hipp Organic or SMA after BF as all the others have fish bits in them and we are veggie hippies!

SilentBite · 14/12/2005 13:49

rosieposie I can see nothing at all inflammatory in your post I think they are misinterpreting what you said

I gave dd Aptamil but never tasted it

PrettyCandlesAndTinselToo · 14/12/2005 14:01

What on earth is wrong with RosiePosie's post?! Frankly I agree with most of the posts on this thread - even the contradictory ones.

In any case, I'm not convinced that fussy eating has all that much to do with early feeding. The flavours a child likes may well be related to what you ate while pregnant or breastfeeding, but from my experience with my two, I think fussiness is more about personality. Or, perhaps, more about personality clashes. Ds was loved most foods when he was weaned, and he was a pleasure to feed, but as he grew bigger he and I began having 'fights' over food, and it wasn't until dd was weaned 2.5y later that I realised that ds simply had a very small appetite and that I had been pushing him to eat more than he wanted. By then the pattern was set. He is not so much a fussy eater because he dislikes flavours, as fussy because he tries to exert some control over something that he should be in control of but which I wouldn't leave alone.

daisiesinaline · 14/12/2005 14:10

Agree, Down to personality not what milk they had.
All mine had Aptamil. DS1 extremely fussy, always has been and still is (nearly 9 years), DD2 will eat and try anything and DD3 seems to be the same so far. I had a friend who had twins and she breast fed them to start with, then gave them the same formula and weaned them the same. One def had a very sweet tooth and the other only liked savoury and used to refuse anything sweet!!! . Goes to show.

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NewBethlehemGirlwithsparkles · 15/12/2005 10:24

Wow big response.

Thanks everyone

Rosieposie - I didn't see your post as contraversial. Thank you for taking the time to post your opinion.

So really what the majority or all of you are saying is that you don't think that Formula has anything to do with future eating habits, it's more to do with weaning.

Obviously I'm considering feeding options with this little bean. In some ways I would like to think that I will be able to BF but I really don't see that happening.

I'll have a think about the formula's. I may just go back to SMA Gold again as dd never had any problems with it.

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hunkermunker · 15/12/2005 10:27

NBG, if you do want to bfeed, I would really recommend contacting a bfeeding counsellor for support and advice before you have the baby - an inverted nipple shouldn't be a barrier to successful breastfeeding. It's very rare not to produce milk - and it might be different with your second.

Good luck with it!

Roobietherednosedreindeer · 15/12/2005 10:34

I too am mystified at the reaction to Rosieposies's post - wha? Definitely several sticks being grasped at the wrong end or some major hypersensitive souls out there on the look out for things to be offended at!

thecattleareALOHing · 15/12/2005 10:37

I have to say, I think it is dreadful that midwives still say this - that feeding 'has' to be established before they will 'let' women leave hospital. Firstly, they have no right to say this as they are not prison warders, and secondly, I am sure this pushes many women (like NBG) who would prefer to breastfeed into bottle feeding as breastfeeding can take quite a while to establish - milk may take a few days to arrive and latch can be tricky. Instead, they should talk about seeing the visiting midwife at home, arrange a meeting with a hospital breastfeeding counsellor and give information about local breastfeeding cafes. I have heard this before and it makes me feel really

Roobietherednosedreindeer · 15/12/2005 10:37

Also meant to add that I thought the received wisdom was that bf babies were generally less fussy when it came to solids as breast milk changes taste all the time .... certainly not the case with dd though so not sure how true this is. It seems logical that the weaning diet is the most influential.

thecattleareALOHing · 15/12/2005 10:37

hunkermunker · 15/12/2005 10:40

Agree totally, Aloha. IME the postnatal ward was hot, noisy and crowded with Damien-like toddlers. NOT the place to learn to feed a baby. Fortunately, the midwives showed no interest in me and ignored my requests for help, so I just thought "Sod it, I want to go home, I'm sure I'll crack this once I'm there". But I'm a stubborn bastard and don't have much common sense, so I didn't give any thought to what would happen if I didn't crack it! Probably helped me do it though!

harpsiheraldangelssing · 15/12/2005 11:01

hunker the more I readf from you the more I believe that we may be twins separated at birth..
I am a serial self discharger myself. hospital is NO place to establish bf. the home environment is much more conducive, with the right support.
it makes me to hear it too and I am always hearing it from my ladies.

hunkermunker · 15/12/2005 11:05

You had Damien-child on your ward too?! That kid was SCARY

Seriously though, I know what you mean re separated at birth

And it makes me as hell when women say "The midwives (or later the HVs) said I couldn't...x, y or z" - these are health professionals and have a responsibility to be providing the very best support, ie not based on myth and hearsay and "it never did me any harm"

expatinscotland · 15/12/2005 11:07

I fed DD1 Cow & Gate. DD was a good eater . . . until now. She's 2.5. She's your typical picky toddler - wants to eat yogurt and pasta w/butter and that's about it. Of course, she'll eat junk if offered, but it's not!

I was formula fed and I'm an 'adventurous' eater, to say the least. LOVE to cook and play the foodie.

MistleToo · 15/12/2005 11:11

dd had SMA - it's what the hospital used and was advertised 'as closest to breast milk'! DD was a lousy feeder - whether that was because SMA tasted like cardboard or not I'll never know - she's always been a bit of a fussy eater but again is that just her or because of SMA (I doubt it)

Conversely 2 dss had SMA and were somewhat greedy eaters

Glitterygook · 15/12/2005 11:12

thought db1 had cow and gate?

MistleToo · 15/12/2005 11:16

bugger that's what I meant the dss had Cow & Gate - doh!

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