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Infant feeding

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DH just gave formula, help

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newbabyjustarrived · 01/05/2009 20:14

just nipped out and when i got back dh had given 2oz formula to our 10day old dd. apparently she was screaming the house down.

will this affect my bf? she didn't seem interested in me after that

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GruffaloMama · 01/05/2009 21:27

Hi Newbaby - congratulations!

My DS had to have several bottles of formula due to v. low blood sugar levels in the first 48 hours of life. I was scared that this would make BFing really hard to establish but he's been excl BF since (apart from some solids now he's old enough) and is a 7 month old booby-monster. Our only problem has been persuading him to accept expressed milk from a bottle - latex/silicone just isn't the same as booby...

Am sure you'll be absolutely fine.

fandango75 · 01/05/2009 21:28

then what fishie, maybe you can patronise a bit more??? prat

am off to talk to some real people

HeinzSight · 01/05/2009 21:29

bye!

fandango75 · 01/05/2009 21:31

you all need to get a life

how very sad you all are

Greensleeves · 01/05/2009 21:33

it always amuses me when the miserable fruitloop posters have such happy festive names

don't worry OP, your baby won't go off you because of one bottle. Loads of exclusively bf babies have EBM in a bottle. And breasts are far superior to fast-flow latex!

PinkTulips · 01/05/2009 21:34

[sigh]

in response to the op... one bottle won't affect bf-ing.

my ds2 had to have bottle feeds of ebm when i was discharged from hospital and he stayed in scbu and he was absolutely fine at nursing despite it... in fact now at 2 months i'd like him to take a bottle so i could express and go out for the evening and the little sod darling won't take it!

more likey being only 10 days old 2oz of formula which is heavier than bm filled her up and she just wasn't hungry. relax

i do think you need to sit down with your dh and discuss how you feel about this and explain to him that the formula is there as an absolute last resort... could he not have called you to see how far away you were/ discuss it with you? even the scbu nurses, who in all honestly thought i should be ff, rang me before giving a bottle of ebm to make sure i wasn't just around the corner and was i happy for him to have it or would i perfer they waited for me to come in and bf.

you need to explain to him that she won't starve in the space of 5 mins but constant formula top ups could damage your breastfeeding relationship.

thisisyesterday · 01/05/2009 21:34

fandango, you seem very angry about something.

you're the one who has come onto a perfectly civil thread and started ranting about formula/breast and then calling people patronising and prats etc etc

funnily enough, most people don't care much for that kind of thing so I suspect you won't be received with open arms iyswim??

Poohbah · 01/05/2009 21:39

Who bought the formula in the first place anyway????

I don't blame him, screaming baby....supply food....quiet baby, celebrate your hubby's parenting instincts, mine would have hunted me down and handed me the baby back!

I wouldn't worry, your baby's probably off you because their stomach full of plastic or whatever it is they stick in formula to make them sleep a bit longer.

My son had formula because of juandice, he has just stopped feeding now at 3 YEARS old.

Don't worry, it's not the end of the world, nect time leave him BM in a bottle when you pop out!!!!

HeinzSight · 01/05/2009 21:42

newbaby, please don't let this one poster put you off coming back onto this thread, please just ignore.

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newbabyjustarrived · 03/05/2009 07:18

Hi there everyone.

Fandango - fwiw, i don't think there's anything much sadder than shit stirring for the sake of it. What is your problem?

everyone else - thank you. She was fine and hadn't forgotten how to suck at all! The reason I was so concerned is because I struggled with my ds who is now 15 months old, because (I think) i gave him a dummy on day one, and expressed a lot of milk to 'top up' his feeds in the evening. (yeah thanks Gina) so that very quickly he decided he much preferred Tommee Tippee teats and it all went downhill from there. From 6 months he was on SMA as expressing was taking over my life and i was by then pregnant again!

my mw said at the time it was nipple confusion that was the problem. seems logical. I'm keen not to repeat the same errors this time.

As for my DH, he thought i was over reacting. especially when i made him suck an ounce off each breast to resolve any supply issues

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PinkTulips · 03/05/2009 10:17

glad all is well newbaby

for what it's worth after ds2 had had a bottle in scbu and i expressed surprise that he didn't seem at all confused his nurse said 'to be perfectly honest we've hardly ever found it to be the case that they get nipple confusion, all the bf babies in here have to have bottles and it never seems to cause any issues, some babies don't feed from the breast til they're days or even weeks old and they all cope just fine with it'

so although i don't doubt nipple confusion is an issue for some babies like your ds i do think it's the exception not the rule.

moondog · 03/05/2009 11:04

How hilarious, the idea of yuor dh sucking off exact same amount to 'balance' things out!!

HeinzSight · 03/05/2009 11:35

too!!!

Glad you're OK newbaby and you that twat didn't upset you!!

SunglassesPolarBear · 03/05/2009 12:38

Glad it all worked out - think your DH has learned

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