Cup/bottle

[CrazyAlien06]

Hey again !!
My 3 month old DD is ebf and I need to get her drinking from bottle so I can get out and about but more importantly in case I get stuck somewhere..

She will take expressed milk from nuby bottle if she is in a good mood and after a few tears however I need her to take it easily so I can start to get a little exercise done/nip out.

People keep saying don't worry in month or so she can use a cup?? I have a doidy cup and know they can be used for feeding milk but how do I do that? And how much will she need?

Basically im after advice about stopping breastfeeding and transferring to formula being given through different things like bottle/cup

Try getting someone else to give the ebm/ formula ina bottle or cup as if it's you she might be holding out for a breast feed.

My DD wouldn't have any milk from any bottle for ages but we eventually got there with breastflow which are supposed to be like breast feeding.

Good luck .

Our DD is also 3 months and EBF, we tried for a month with different types of bottles and gave up in the end as it was causing too much stress and anxiety for her and us. We have had more success with a little cup, it only holds about 40ml, and most nights she will sip from this for a feed or half feed from DH. sometimes she just plays with it though!

We are going to try the bigger doody cup in a month or so.

Thanks peeps :0) oftengrunpy I have a breast flow bottle too( we went on a mammoth bottles shopping spree haha) not sure whether to stick to nuby as she does take it after a while or try the breast flow one??

I just gave up and resigned myself to having to be near enough to feed every 3 hours. Turned out I was too tired to get anaerobic exercise or go out anyway ;-) we tried breastflow then tommy tippee on 3 different sized teats. Sometimes she'd drink it but not reliably enough that I could go out.

I started giving DD water from a sippy cup at 5 months and she is dead happy with that so now I need to move her onto formula it's easy to give it to her in one of those.

It is a pain when they won't take a bottl and I guess getting them to reliably drink from a cup will vary as much with the baby as will using a bottle.

Ha ha that should have said aerobic not anaerobic!!

It's all certainly a learning curve! I have no idea about giving milk/water to babies from a cup! Think a call to hv may help? Or probably more helpful to ask on here lol

I started my DD on a cup from 6mo. She is 9mo now and definitely cannot drink large amounts from it. She only has water in them and maybe she doesn't like to drink lots of water? She uses a TT first cup (the free flow flip top one). I hated the cup because it's so hard to open the lid. But DD wont suck any valved cups. I am always on the look out for new cups. I saw TT has a new 'tip it up' cup today and DD actually can use this new one! It's bite only and no sucking required.

Cups are just like bottles really. You need to find the ones they click with. I think if your little one doesn't get bottles, definitely try doidy, free flow ones, and this new TT tip it up thing.

BTW my DD will only use the NUK latex teats. Have you tried them? She won't suck on a breastflow at all.

And as for exercises, I went to postnatal ones where you take your LO with you. I'm in Southampton so not a large place. But I know there are 3 aerobic and a buggy exercise classes a week. Have you looked for these instead?

Yeah there is not much around where I live! It's in a kind of forgotten pocket where postnatal exercises is concerned :( missing my swimming.

I have a doidy cup so will try that when she is a bit older. I'll google nuk teats. Fingers crossed we get somewhere with bottles/cups lol.
It's my new years resolution to calmly get her to take milk from anything other than me :-) I have shopping vouchers that I got for Xmas that have a 6 month validity lol

I bought mine from this online shop but a lot of boots stock NUK supposedly. Not mine though. I got the rec on MN and the difference is apparently the brown latex teat. NUK does silicone ones too but don't get them.