How do i introduce formula and bottle feeding - having real trouble

[michie40]

DD2 is 5 months and I am trying to introduce formula and bottle feeding but not having much luck - she just gums the teat whilts making lots of DA DA DA noises which is not much help. Has anyone got any ideas how I can get her to srink them properly as I really need to stop breast feeding. I managed it with dd1 but dd2 is a bit more awkward.

sorry about all the typing mistakes - dd1 is insisting on sitting on my lap whilst i type

but the tommee tippee next to breast bottles there brill

Is she too young for a sucky cup? Might be good if you can skip the bottles and go straight to a cup?
Sorry - am no expert.

I have no great advice as dd is 8 months and i have been trying to get her off the breast, she has only now managed to take water from a beaker but chews rather than suck. I am planning on trying formula again but water it down my hv said as it may trick the little menaces. xxxx

Thanks for all the help - I think she is a bit young for a cup (shes 5 1/2 months) but I might try the tommee tippee bottles. Has anyone out there actually managed to successfully switch from breast to formula at this age?

Nuk teats are very good and are supposed to be more like suckng a nipple because of the way it comes out. We found it really helpful to take both DCs somewhere ridiculously busy (think bowling alley, fairground etc ) then shove the teat in while they were so distracted that they didn't really pay attention and they both started sucking away without thinking about it.

Please dont water down formula! Milk should be the main 'meal' for the first 12 months so you are risking under-nourishing your baby!

What I would recommend is expressing milk, and trying to get her to feed from bottles with expressed milk.

When baby is used to that, slowly introduce formula into the expressed milk 1 floz at a time, until you have swapped over completely to formula.

What are Nuk teats? never heard of these. will google these and unfortunatley i have never got the hang of expressing. Don't worry VVV will not be watering down the milk.

Maybe now you have got the hang of b/feeding, you could try expressing again? Does take a bit of practise. But I found it really helped getting my DD swapped to Soya formula (cows milk allergy).

NUK teats can be bought in Boots IIRC.

You have to get the bottles that go with it though.....obviously

vvv thats what my hv suggested to me, i have not tried it as dd will not take milk from a bottle she just about accepts water from a beaker.

Yes slink, I saw that. HV's are fricking scary creatures sometimes. I wonder how many other mums she has suggested this to?

quite a few so i have heard. xxAlthough i am soooo desperate to get her on bottles or something just off my boob, she eats well little chubster, but i should enjoy once she stops she stops xxx

You'll miss it when she stops though

One thing i've learned over the past 4 years. Babies do things in their own good time

NUK teats are kind of flat and the milk comes out of a hole in the top rather than squirting out the end. The DCs seemed to like them...