oh dear. got the wrong teats, ds is not wanting his bottle.

[woodlandfaerie]

DS is mostly bf, he has a bottle mid-morning in prep for my return work 5 mornings a week, and he has a bottle at 10:30pm or thereabouts.

He has only been having these bottles for about a month (he is 7 months) and drinks around 8-9oz with a 2hole avent teat. I bought some new ones for him, and threw the old ones out, did not even consider that the ones I bought have 3 holes and he might not like them

This evening is the first time I have used them. He drank a bit, pulled away, drank a bit, pulled away, and then refused to take the bottle at all, instead he pushed onto my boob! Fine with me, but poor thing, there is no, or little milk there. He seems happy to suckle, but going from 9oz to not very much is not the best is it?

Any suggestions? Should I just put him back to bed (he is asleep now although suckling) and feed him with bm as normal when he next wakes (although this is likely earlier than it would be with the bottle).

If your son is mostly breastfed then why would you think you have no milk this evening? At 7 months babies are very efficient at getting all the breastmilk they need. The breasts no longer feel 'full' all the time, but that doesn't mean they aren't producing milk. If he has been breastfed almost exclusively and since birth, then there is no reason why you wouldn't have sufficient milk now.

If your baby's cheeks stayed nice and rounded during suckling, then he was getting a good flow of milk. You also have to remember that he will get a lot more nutrients, fats and calories from your breastmilk than from formula, as well as all the immune system benefits.

And well done for breastfeeding for this long

I offered the milk again after half hour and he took it all, so if he did get any bm, he had that AND 8oz of formula!

He has been having the 10:30pm feed as DH has been giving it to him much of the time. DS wakes a lot at night for food and it has been very tiring, so we did it so i could get more than 3 hours sleep some nights.

Thing with the milk, i can usually feel it coming out, with the 10:30pm feed i can't, it feels empty. i guessed this was because he does not have it at that time, the milk supply would reduce at that time. good to now it does not, as he does not want the bottle on the odd occasion, so i can still feed bm without worrying.

until he started weaning he was exclusively bf as he did not like the bottle. he is a baby who likes milk, feeding 2-3 hourly until he started on solids!