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Infant feeding

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weaning from the breast

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whoneedssleepanyway · 18/02/2010 08:23

DD2 is 7.5 months old and until now has been completley BF but for a number of reasons i need her to start taking milk from a cup (so please don't shoot me for wanting/ needing to stop).

OH and I agreed that completely stopping was probably the only way to do this and we knew it would be hard. So Monday night was the last time i fed her before she went to bed.

She finally started to willingly drink some milk from a beaker late yesterday afternoon (she had solids and water which she would drink from a beaker in the meantime so I wasn't starving her). She isn't taking a huge quantity at all but is gradually taking some. She is still eating well and ate breakfast for the first time today. When she woke in the night OH offered her the beaker and she took it and had some.

Will she gradually start to take more, am worrying about her milk and fluid intake, she had a wet nappy this morning but not that wet at all and normally hers are very very heavy first thing. Bizarrely we are having most success with room temperature or even cold formula from a hard spouted beaker as opposed to warm EBM.

Am finding this very hard and feeling like a dreadful mother. Any advice similar experience appreciated.

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StealthPolarBear · 18/02/2010 08:33

you poor thing
I don't think it matters tht her nappy was less wet iyswim
hope you get some better advice soon, but it doesnt sound as though its going badly at all and you are NOT a dreadful mother. Well done for BFing this long.
Are you looking after yourself? Getting engorged?

whoneedssleepanyway · 18/02/2010 13:12

Thank you, i am expressing off at the moment and keeping it for her and will then reduce the expressing once she is properly established on the beaker/ bottle (realised mistake in my post and last BF was Tues night so it was less than 24 hours before she started taking on some milk). but have am managing not to express in the night so my supply must have reduced slightly already as had been feeding her in the night.

had to go to gp this morning anyway to get her reflux meds and had a chat and she reassured me that all would be ok and she would keep drinking as she needed it and won't starve herself. it is hard though.

am just keeping the beaker with us all the time and offering it to her frequently and put some milk in her lunch.

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mspotatochip · 18/02/2010 13:28

I might have to do similar soon with my eight month ds as I may need to have an operation on my shoulder with 6 weeks in a sling and drugs afterwards. Was your DD v upset? DS loves his boob. We didn't have this as she was mix fed from 5 months and totally refused breastmilk straight from the source at about 7 months.

I sympathise I'm finding it hard even thinking about having to do it!

mspotatochip · 18/02/2010 13:29

That should have said we didn't have this with DD.....

whoneedssleepanyway · 18/02/2010 13:34

She has been a bit distressed and will still push the cup away sometimes but is starting to realise i think that is the only way and is voluntarily drinking from it a bit now little and often, it has helped as DH has been around to do her feeds yesterday and has been going in the night to settle her and offering her a beaker (previously had been BF in the night). The hardest bit was the first 24 hours when she was hungry and crying but wouldn't take a bottle or cup and it was going against every motherly instinct not to feed her, if DH hadn't been there i would have caved i am sure.

DD1 was much easier as like your DD we did mix feed from 4 months and then at 5 months just sort of came to a natural end.

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mspotatochip · 18/02/2010 15:21

I honestly think I would have to go away for the night, I'm not sure I could stay firm.

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