Transitioning to formula

[Wingingit07]

Hello!

I'm hoping someone has had a similar experience and can offer some advice.

I am looking at moving baby who is 5 weeks to formula (medical reasons). When looking online alot of the info is for weaning after 6 months it's really hard to find info on how to transition before this.

My question is, how many feeds should or did you drop to move to formula? I know cold turkey isn't good and dropping a feed a week seems like it would take forever to move over! DS takes bottle find and formula so it's just a case of making sure I don't get engorged :-)

Any practical advice would be great not looking for pros of continuing to BF as I know these

Thank you

The advice to drop feeds gradually is to reduce your risk of mastitis and to get baby used to taking in larger amounts of milk they'll need to grow and thrive.

BF babies take roughly 25 floz a day whereas an EFF baby will need 2.5 floz per pound in weight in 24 hours.

How is baby at taking a bottle now? If they're ok with it, you could try dropping 2 feeds a week and see how you both adjust? Just pick which 2 feeds they will be and stick to it.

And there is no need to explain to anyone why you are moving over to ff, least of all people you don't know on the internet

Thankyou @jinglejohnsjulie

Baby is fine with taking a bottle :-) I just could find anywhere at all about the suggested number of feeds I should drop. Every website says do it gradually but doesn't elaborate so thank you your info helps! X

Glad I could help and good luck