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Mixed Feeding - but baby less happy with breast now

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guyshahar · 07/10/2009 19:02

Hi there

Last week, we started feeding our six week old baby (now 7 weeks) some formula milk. This was as a supplement to my breast milk, which I was producing less and less of, and it looked like he was hungry and he was not putting on weight.

The idea was to continue breast-feeding as before, and adding a small bottle of formula milk after his morning and evening feeds.

It has worked well. He is happy, seems less hungry and put on a load of weight last week.

However, now it looks like he is impatient with the breast - as if he is used to the faster flow of the bottle and no longer prepared to do the work to get breast milk.

We have been using the Tommee Tippee slow-flow bottle teats, though the flow seems to be pretty fast.

Does anyone have any idea what we can do about this?

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PoisonToadstool · 07/10/2009 19:05

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tiktok · 07/10/2009 20:36

guyshahar - PoisonToadstool is right. This is the drawback to mixed feeding. You can turn things round by working on dropping the formula and increasing the bf - both in frequency and no. of sides offered each time. A call to any of the bf helplines should help, too.

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