Weaning from breast

[Woofles]

I'm Weaning my five and a half month girl and she's loving the food but I'm finding it hard to get her to take a bottle. Any advice? I've tried it for two weeks at her afternoon feed and she's maybe only taking 3 ounces at most with difficulty. She's been breast fed exclusivley since dropping the night feed at about 16 weeks which she did take from bottle ( phillips Avent). Won't take this now and have tried NUK with wee bit more success. As a result she's now waking at night again after sleeping 7pm - 7am for months, cause she's hungry. Please help. Am worried I won't have enough milk to give her before she can take a bottle to replace it.

sorry woofles are you weaning your little girl onto solids and off the breast at the same time? Why? she still needs your milk and bm is the perfect accompaniment for first solids .

As long as you feed her whenver sheasks there is no reason why you woud run out of milk. At this young age if she is hungry she needs more milk.

sorry if i have not understood your problem correctly

she's still getting 3 breast feeds a day but I am trying to get her to take a bottle for one feed and build it up gradually as I have to go back to work in a couple of months. She just doesn't seem to want it. She's not fretting with hunger then she's just gone off the afternoon feed and as a result is waking at night.

I think really what i need is advice on how to get her used to taking a bottle. I'm worried that she's not going to get the calories she needs from milk before she's taking enough solids. She's mostly very content during the day but I know she's not getting enough milk. Tonight she's so knackered that she's now fallen asleep and hardly fed at all at bedtime. just fussed a lot at the breast and chewed my nipple! I know she'll be awake again in a few hours. She's always been very good and fed loads = 91st centile in weight and slept all night from 16 weeks - now I feel like a new mum all over again . I've been giving her follow on milk in the bottle as i was wasting so much expressed milk I wanted to hang on to my supplies until she could take a bottle better. Is it worth trying a beaker?

It is worth trying a cup with a soft spout and a doidy. It is also worth buying normal formula rather than that heavy follow on stuff. Follow on milk is an invention by formula companies. Babies don't need it, but you can do advertising for it with cute babies in, something you are not allowed to do for normal formua.

So what kind of formula is suitable? I thought follow on had more iron? it all seems so complicated and I know probably in a couple of weeks it'll all seem so simple!

Just the ones from birth. I experimented with Hipp organic because it is not stuffed full of prebiotics, but my ds did not deign to drink any and I continued bf around my work days for a while. Now he is on cowsmilk. But he was 10months when i went back and I went part time.

Weaning onto food is an exciting new experience and perhaps not the best time to re-introduce a bottle. I introduced a tommee tippee cup at this age. First she thought it was a toy (I gave it to her empty). Then after a while I put water in it and she loved it

Once she settles into a few solid meals a day try the bottle again, go for a mid morning or afternoon feed, one where she is not starving hungry and not too tired.

HTH, Good Luck!