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9 Week Old Feeding

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Ell1994 · 21/05/2025 07:35

FTM here to a beautiful little baby girl who is turning nine weeks on Thursday. I EBF her for two weeks and then due to poor supply we had to switch to formula feeding. We are feeding her Aptamil advanced and have done so since the start. Over the last few weeks, probably since she was about 6 weeks feeding has become horrendous for both me and her. She’ll take the first 30ML no problem because it’s like she knows she’s hungry but past that she is not interested in the bottle at all. Or if she does drink more she wants like 10/20 minute breaks between ounces so sometimes it takes up to an hour for her to finish a bottle. We wind her in between ounces but she’s still not interested. Sometimes I am forcing the bottle in her mouth 3/4 times and on the 4th time she’s like oh yes I do want this actually and will drink another ounce. She’s feeding roughly every 3 hours so if we let her only take the 30ML she’d be consuming 6/7 ounces in 24 hours as she’s feeding 6/7 times. Just not sure what to do and health visitor hasn’t been very helpful at all. I am UK based so not sure whether to try and get some advice private.

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Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Superscientist · 21/05/2025 12:14

My daughter was ebf but dropped to second length breastfeeds due to silent reflux and allergies. She wanted feeds as she was hungry but feeding caused her pain so she stopped and screamed.

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