DD not drinking expressed milk.

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Last week I returned to work and DD2 is with our lovely and experienced childminder. I'm expressing milk for during the day but DD isn't taking the milk.

I've always BF and have never given her expressed milk myself. We've tried a variety of cups without luck though she is happily now drinking water from a cup during the day.

She is still BF. morning, evenings and throughout the night. In fact she is feeding voraciously in the night. So I guess she is getting lots of milk by compensating with the extra night feeds. Im finding it quite exhausting. DD is also having three small meals a day (started weaning 2 weeks ago).

Any ideas/tips as to how to get DD to take expressed milk? She's an excellent feeder otherwise. I've not tried a bottle as at 6 months I just wanted to go straight to cup, but as she is drinking water from dippy cup it may be the milk she is suggesting rather than the cup.

That should read sippy cup and rejecting milk not suggesting!! iPhone!!

DD is 14 mo & still refuses milk from a sippy cup (even though she'll happily have other drinks that way). Tbh I would try a bottle -or a variety of bottles. DD only drinks milk from Medula bottles which have breast like teets even though it's no linger expressed breastmilk she's having (toddler or cows).

Also, DD refused expressed milk that was more than a day old or has been frozen, which was a bit of a mare. At 10 months O cracked and offered instant follow on milk instead of breastmilk which she MUCH preferred. Not how I imagined doing it but it as the only way she would let her childminder give her milk.

thanks bird good to know she's not the only one.

Bumping this to see if any more knowledge/help is out there.

Should mention DD is 6 months old - so she still needs lots of milk? It's now 2 weeks and she had about 2oz on Monday from a cup, but nothing since. She is drinking water with food. She is eating a couple of meals a day but surely she still needs lots of milk at this age? Of course she feeds as soon as she sees me at abut 6pm and then at least 4 times throughout evening/night.

Don't worry just get cm to give her food with your milk in ie cereal etc

I know what you mean about the bottle and sippy cup. My DD is 8 months and I went back to work two weeks ago and am expressing.
She didn't take much milk out of the sippy cup but will happily drink water from it so DH who is at SAHD just gave it to her in the bottle instead.
She drank 450ml yesterday in total from the bottle and that was with one feed from me in the night, one in the morning and I did the bedtime feed.
Before she was only taking 100 - 200 mls.
I know it feels like a backward step but I'd give a bottle a go as most of her nutrients should still be coming from bm at this age.
I don't know how much in volume they should be having at 6months but HV told me at 8months DD needs 600ml minimum. We have started her on baby vitamins in case she doesn't get that much.
Feeding more at night is a way of compensating though, called reverse cycling. Loads of info on kellymom about it.

thanks I will check out kellymom.
We've not had much luck with a bottle.

At what age can she have plain greek yoghurt? Some a lunchtime perhaps?