My 4 month old baby is breast fed, but since very early on I’ve been really keen to give one bottle a day. Initially this was to give me a break at night but I soon realised that bfeeding at night made her sleep better and was a whole lot easier. So now I attempt to give her a bottle during the day. I want to so this so one day I can give up breastfeeding, I don’t want to be doing it when I go back to work when she is a year old. She weighs 14lb, and is on the 50th centile.
My issue is she has never taken more than 4oz in her life, and mostly she takes 1-1.5oz. She then stops. I wind her, get a good burp, put the bottle back, and she’s done, she won’t take a sip more. It’s SO frustrating. I can’t tell you how much milk I have chucked away! Clearly she takes me of this when breastfeeding or she wouldn’t be thriving, so why can’t she from a bottle? I use Mam bottles, teat 1.
Does anyone have any ideas why this may be? I ensure it’s always been 3 hours since the last breastfeed. Other ff babies of this age I meet are having 8oz every feed?!
Sometimes she refuses it completely, but 8/10 times she does what I have described above.