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Struggling to transition from bf to ff

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fairgame84 · 14/12/2022 12:50

DD is 9 weeks and we've had a crappy time breastfeeding due to tongue tie, colic, clamping and mastitis.
She's been breastfed both sides then formula top up from week one due to the tongue tie. She's got used to this and refuses to drop the top ups, I've tried everything. She feeds 2-3 hourly and takes 30-60ml top up. Sometimes goes 4 hourly at night.

2 days ago breastfeeding became really painful again just like before the tongue tie was snipped. I'm also lopsided as she prefers to feed from one side so I decided it was probably a good time to stop breastfeeding.

Yesterday I fed her just formula and she was really unsettled. She was feeding 1.5-2 hourly day and night and not sleeping for long inbetween. She was taking 60-120mls each feed, her 3 hourly amount is 90mls based on her weight.
In theory she should have settled well and gone longer so I don't know what's gone wrong.
Is it the formula? She's on cow and gate 1st.
Or is it the general change in feeding?

I've ended up breastfeeding every other feed today but she's only gone 2 hours after a formula feed of 90mls, it's like it's not filling her up.

OP posts:
fairgame84 · 14/12/2022 17:35

Hopeful bump.

She's still feeding 1-2 hourly today and I'm really struggling.

OP posts:
HippeePrincess · 16/06/2023 14:11

Can you get to a good feeding support group? The help with combi feeding and weaning not just breastfeeding.
My ds when he takes a bottle only takes enough to take the edge off his hunger, even if this is all day he holds out and feeds like mad when back at the breast. Could it be a preference for the breast like that?
I wouldn’t go cold turkey if I were you, you could start dropping feed by feed to avoid engorgement, mastitis etc.
can you express at all?

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