Refusing Aptamil

[littlewind]

My Ds is 10 months old and breastfed. Which has been great but little man is not sleeping well at all. I thought I would try aptamil and see if that would help him sleep. I first tired him with a bottle which he refused. Then a silly cup which he grabbed and threw on the floor.
So don't know what to do now.

Have you tried breast milk expressed into a bottle? It might be the introduction of a bottle rather than the formula?

Is this the first time he's had a cup or a bottle? I wouldn't bother with introducing a bottle at ten months; he's unlikely to take it and the advice is to wean off bottles by twelve months anyway. I agree with the suggestion to try ebm in a cup as he might be more willing to persevere for a familiar taste. Equally, you could get some small cartons of different formulas to try them out with minimal waste.

If the sippy cup doesn't work out (and he'll need your help with it at first) you could try an open cup like a doidy.

Agree that going straight onto a cup is probably a better idea. Though also I wouldn't be pinning my hopes on formula making him sleep. 10 months is just a kind of rough time for baby sleep, IME, between developmental stuff, teething, etc.

Thank you for replies. I've tried to express a few times but it didn't seem to work. I've got a pump and expressed for about an hour but only a tiny bit came out.
The strange thing is Ds will have his water out of a bottle. But when I tried him with the formula he just spat it back out.

Hello littlewind. I ran out of breast milk around the 3 month stage, breast feeding went great to begin with, then lots of fists in mouth. When tried expressing to mix with Aptamil (my chosen milk) I was only producing a mere 50ml max. No wonder hungry! No problem here moving from breast to bottle - probably as starving (but he was only 3 months old). Try mixing bit of breast milk with Aptamil and see what thinks and go from there. We can only do what we can (I wanted to breast feed for at least a year, but didn't kick myself when it stopped working). Just do whatever works.

My baby is 6month I tried giving Aptamil but he rufused he was crying and throwing up and I will be resuming back to work ending of February don’t know what to do

1, try eBM tp up after feed.
2) Use a cup not a bottle.
3)TRy different formulas
4) Don,t expect baby to slepp through the night formula or no formula. And if you leave it a couple of months you won,t need to go onto formula at all.