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7mth old ebf refusing bottle

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AllieMummy · 16/04/2022 08:49

I hope someone can help me - at wits end! My gorgeous little baby girl has been EBF after a difficult start to feeding, but I am ready to stop. She's an absolute barnacle baby and LOVES the boob, but it's too much for me now. She falls asleep with it in her mouth, whether shes hungry or not, and bites when I try and unlatch. She's not sleeping through the night, wakes up 3 or 4 times, and boob in the mouth is only thing that settles her. She's eating solids really well, and I'm making her breakfast with expressed milk too. HV said just to preserve and make sure shes eating 3 meals and drinking water which she is. Have tried loads of bottles, cups, other people giving it to her... and she sucks once or twice and that's it. I feel guilty enough that I feel ready to stop and she clearly doesn't, and it's affecting me emotionally now... any ideas? I've given myself 10 weeks to gradually wean her off taking her to about 9 months.. x

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Flopsy145 · 20/04/2022 10:26

I had a similar situation to you, and although I'm still breastfeeding and she's 1 that was out of pure laziness to persist and then sterilise bottles etc so just decided to wait until she was one. I have got her onto cow's milk through a tum tum straw cup because it's not replicating a boob, and from 6 months she drank water from a straw cup. Are you trying with expressed milk or formula?

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