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Infant feeding

Get advice and support with infant feeding from other users here.

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Please tell me how to get baby to take a bottle.

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Cupcakemummy85 · 14/06/2013 13:51

My dd is 18 weeks and breast feeding has been so traumatic from the start (constant cluster feeds, tongue tie, cmpi and now mastitis). I'm very much ready to give up but dd has other ideas. We have every bottle on the market and she won't except any of them. Her special formula, cow and gate pepti, she won't even try and I'm so fed up. I'm on antibiotics for the mastitis and its really the last straw for me. Dd1 who is 23 months needs me too and I have managed to put her to bed once since having dd2. I feel extremely guilty for both girls. I could really do with some advise. The doctor and hv said if she's hungry she will take it and the paed said to start weaning her and carry on bf. I personally don't think she is ready to b weaned yet. What do I do :(

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Cupcakemummy85 · 16/06/2013 17:17

I've tried different cups but she hates them and especially when I try to cup feed with no lid.
I'm so ready to stop breast feeding. I feel so trapped. Out of desperation I did as the paediatrician said and tried her in baby rice and she took the lot but didn't seem excited by it. I'm going to get her weighed tomorrow and ask the hv. Surely I can't be trapped into breast feeding. :( I just know we'd all be happier if she were on bottles.

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talulahbeige · 16/06/2013 20:47

we had the same problem with taking a couple of oz but then refusing. turned out that we weren't winding her enough. it can take a good 20 mins of winding before she would take it again. we also changed to Dr Brown bottles

talulahbeige · 17/06/2013 20:14

Goldmandra · 18/06/2013 19:17

How did it go with the HV?

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Cupcakemummy85 · 18/06/2013 22:11

Her weight gain was very good and the hv said I can wean her to just baby rice until she is five months or more. This suggestion by the health visitor might actually keep me breastfeeding for longer as it sort of gives me hope that my dd might sleep a little more perhaps and might not feed so much. She is improving everyday. I'm used to being dairy free, the low point was the mastitis. I guess because dd1 didn't thrive on my breast milk I get very paranoid that dd2 will b the same and won't gain weight.
I was wondering when can they start using one of those cheap tommee tippee cups? My friend used to give her dd formula on that cup. 6 months?

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Jojay · 18/06/2013 22:15

I don't see any reason not to try the TT cup now, if you want to. Glad it went well with HV and weight gain is good.

Startail · 18/06/2013 22:21

DD2 fell completely off the weight chart, would she take a bottle-no way.

In the end she was weaned slightly early and lived on BFing and yoghurt. By 7 months she'd happily drink dilute juice and eat yoghurt and let DH put her to bed if I went out. (She wouldn't touch milk, formula or cow).

I have seen her drink out of a bottle, once, aged 5. She'd put her Ribenna in to one she was feeding her doll with.

GladbagsGold · 18/06/2013 22:21

My DD refused bottles until lovely key worker discovered she likes milk a LOT warmer than you'd expect.

When I had some bf issues I called la leche league and spoke to one of the nicest women I've ever chatted to. They might have some advice/listening ear to help you bf for another month or so if that would help?

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Cupcakemummy85 · 18/06/2013 22:39

So could I try dd with warm water? Can it be sweetened in any way? You'd think I was a first time mum but I've forgotten it all and dd1 is only 23 months lol.

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Goldmandra · 18/06/2013 22:41

Well you're clearly doing something very right if she's putting on weight so well. You've nothing to feel guilty for at all.

If giving her baby rice helps you get some better nights that can only be a good thing.

Half the problem is that, at times like this, you get different advice from different people and they all expect you to listen only to them. It can be incredibly frustrating.

If you want, deep down, to continue BFing then perhaps the early weaning will help you to do this. Getting through this sticky patch and then achieving long term, relaxed feeding could be really good for you but it has to be your decision, nobody else's.

Do what feels right to you. If that's continuing BFing, great. There's no reason not to keep trying the odd bottle in case she comes round to the idea in the meantime.

Good luck and remember to enjoy her too

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