Advice please. 5 month old going without milk for 8 hours in daytime.

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I have been back to work for 4 weeks mon-thurs sometimes early shift sometimes late work about 8 hours 1 and a half hours travelling. I breastfeed ds before going to work at about 7 in morning he then has solids at 8-8.30 pureed fruit. ds sleeps from 8.30 - 10ish dh then tries more milk(formula now as I seem to have lost supply in daytime so cant express like i used to) and he either refuses or has taken some from latex teat but sucks for 15 mins without getting any today. Had pureed veg and youghurt for dinner again refused bottle after afternoon sleep and only b/f when I got home at 4.00pm. Is this going to harm his development/health. He was weighed about 2 weeks ago and weighed 15lbs 8 ounces. He is generally happy sleeps from 6-7 with either one or two feeds during the nite. i have managed to give him 4 ounces from bottle on sat/sun.

Sorry long post but any experiences with babys refusing milk from bottle whilst mum away, I hate work at the moment feel I should be home feeding ds!!dh is also very frustrated as unable to give baby bottle, help!!I have also tried cups spoons different teats he will only occasionally suck latex teats.though with dh ds sucked for 15 mins today and got no milk.

How many feeds is he having in a 24 hour period? Iv worked out from what you say it must 4-5 feeds.
It seems you are just doing two of the feeds in the night instead of in the day.
I believe that you must be giving him enough ounces in 24 hours,so dont worry abou that.I would just be concerned about waking in the night.He is obvoiusly hungry in the night as he is missing two feeds in the day.
Is this good for him to be waking in the night.It might be a difficult habit for him to stop when it does not suit you anymore.
According to GF your ds should be having a min of 20 oz a day for all his nutrtion needed.

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mum2oliver..he has feed at about 7am then attempt to give bottle at 10ish again another attempt midday then 3 ish, I feed when i get home at 4pm then at 6pm before bed then sometimes 10pm and 2am sometimes its just 2am and he mises 10pm 2nite went down 2 sleep at 6 and had feed at 8.30 very thirsty. so roughly 4/5 breastfeeds in 24 hours also I am only feeding from one boob.

Scrumpy... are you sure you're not me! going through similar thing with ds at the moment, he's 5 months old, i'm feeding from the one boob (lop sided forever more now i fear!!) is a little monkey with the bottle, i'm not back at work but will sonn be and also going away for the night on saturday (wedding!)

he will drink an ounce or two but that is it...! i tried changing formula (from cow and gate organic to Aptamil) and that haas worked a little better, have toyed with the idea of different teats bt he as drunk four onuces a couple of times so i know he can do it!... i think i've gotten it into my head that because i present himn with the bottle he should be wolfing 9 ounces down just like that... when ion reality he's just not all that hungry or bothered... sorry no advice here as i feel like i'm in a similar predicament but will be interested in further replies to your post.... good luck! and don;t worry about it! (easier said than done hey?!!)

How about giving milk from cup with feeder spout instead of a bottle? Might be more successful.
Try not to worry over it all too much - since he is still feeding in the night he is getting milk then. I would just breastfeed him when you are at home. Some days he will get more milk than others. Try giving him foods that have milk in them such as cheeses suaces and custard, rice pudding etc.
He will be absolutely fine.

bea..thanks for your reply we are both in same predicament...it helped to read Mears post and i think she is right worrying about it only makes it worse for mums and whoever else tries to feed baby milk!! My mum looked after him 2day for acouple of hours before I got home from work and again he would not take bottle so she gave him a yoghurt my dh managed to get 4 ounces into him this morning from haberman teat that was after he refused breakie. I know if he was hungry he would not be as settled as he is and I am going to take Mears advice and stop worrying.

enjoy your night out on Saturday your ds will be fine same as mine, its us who worry ourselves silly.

scrumpy! can you believe it, my mum came down today! (as we're off to the wedding saturday afternoon!) and ds (the little monkey!) 2 x 3 ounces twice whilst i was out and about (getting my hair cut!!!) my mum said he just guzzled it down and wanted more (which he wasn;t getting as it's been such a failure the last couple of goes i don;t make much up in a bottle as it just gets tipped down the sink!!!) so this malkes me feel a little more confident for when we're out tommorrow!!!!

hope things are getting better for you!

Scrumpy, my DS2 does this. He's 9mths and I'm still bfing. I have a p/t job with a long commute and he eats what i leave our nanny but won't drink much. Then I come home and he has a feeding/pooing fiesta. It's exhausting, and very depressing for our fabulous nanny. I haven't fiddled around with different teats (Avent was fine for the 1st 2) and i think he does drink enough to keep himself going. I think he's just expressing consumer choice, in the same way that he won't eat cauliflower. Worst of all, he won't take a bottle from me. I was at a party a while ago where I eventually had to put my dress on back to front cos he wanted a feed and didn't want a bottle so I had to whip 'em out. Sigh.

Baby refusing formula

Hi guys

I am mom to 6 month old DJ. She has been BF up till know and I was hoping she could take to some formula- useful for emergencies . The little tike takes a few sips into her mouth then decides to turn her head away and refuses any more.What she know does is fill herself up with solid and a few ounces of formula and then has a marathon BF session when I come home.Any ideas on how to get her to like formula . She has refused most types of bottle but is happy drinking out of the Ameda Baby cups .

Any ideas as it would be nice to have the formula as a back up just in case my expressing fails