Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Weaning

Find weaning advice from other Mumsnetters on our Weaning forum. Use our child development calendar for more information.

Advice needed re 9mo who has given up breast-feeding. PFB & epic alert!

6 replies

JustAnotherManicMummy · 05/01/2010 15:20

Background: My 9mo has been BLW and breastfed for the last 3 months or so. On New Year's day he refused the breast and has done so at every other feed since. I've had another thread going about that but as it's been a few days and he just keeps biting me instead of feeding I think I'm going to have to accept he is not going to take any more bfs.

I have been expressing and giving him that but I'm not getting much and tbh he does not seem very interested in drinking it (I've taken to pouring the left overmilk onto his weatabix in the morning). He doesn't seem very interested in milk before bed from a cup either - and we've tried it at various temperatures and from both cups. He hasn't taken a bottle since he was 5.5 mo - he used to have one of formula before bed.

He has two sippy cups, one with a valve (which has to be used without the valve in it ) and one with a couple of holes in the spout and a flippy lid. He is probably only drinking about 100mls, maximum 150mls of breastmilk per day now but he is not very good at drinking out of a cup.

He appears to be eating more in the last few days and usually has breakfast when he wakes, which is a petit filou, 1 weatabix, 1 clementine, bit of pear and a bit of pita with jam/cream cheese. Lunch is a pita with cream cheese/marmite/pate, piece of cheese and a bit of fruit and a stem of brocolli or other veg (not that he eats much of that) and maybe a bit of cold chicken or sausage. Dinner is similar to lunch but with an extra petit filou or a bit of what we're eating.

He has just turned 9months and is very nearly walking, having been crawling for about the last 3.5 months. Don't know it that's relevent but wanted to give as much info for the best advice

So... Is he getting enough food over all? Should I offer him formula or just what I express and some water/water and juice? What's the best way of getting milk into him before bed? Should we get a different cup?

TIA

OP posts:
JustAnotherManicMummy · 05/01/2010 17:58

bump

OP posts:
JustAnotherManicMummy · 05/01/2010 19:35

Hopeful bump

OP posts:
mistletoeandjuan · 05/01/2010 20:39

Hello - my DD (7.5 months) is similar although I only breastfed until 6 months (& the last 3 months of that was mixed). She's always been a pain in the arse fussy with her milk and it's a real struggle to get her to have much more than 10oz (not sure what that is in ml) in a day.

I find she drinks best from an open cup (it can be a bit messy but a fair amount goes down). She does have a bottle before bed when she's tired though

I also offer her water (in open cup or tommee tippee free flow thing)

She eats quite a lot.

I would say that as long as you are offering milk, water and solids and he is happy, weeing, pooing and growing you can't go far wrong. [should listen to my own advice emoticon!]

btw - well done to him for crawling so early (bet that's hard work). My DD is still stuck at rolling and doing some worm like creep across the foor!

JustAnotherManicMummy · 05/01/2010 23:04

Hi Mistletoe thanks for replying

I guess I'm worried because he was a bit of a boob-monster with 4/5 feeds per day. And then he suddenly stopped (he was mixed fed from birth btw and only dropped the bottles at about 6mo)

He's only having about 5oz of milk all day since he stopped bfing and very little water/juice. He used to have about 5oz of liquid plus the bfs so I'm a bit worried that he's not getting enough liquids or food.

I've bought a new cup today, a Tommee Tippee Nuby which he seems to quite like because he can do it on his own without me weeping as my precious milk goes all over the floor and some follow-on formula which we're going to try tonight.

He seems ok and is certainly making lots of wet and dirty nappies! I think I just wanted some reassurance that he wasn't going to starve without my breastfeeds and that he's getting enough to eat and drink. So thank you for taking the time to tell me about your situation. I feel a bit better.

Yes, the crawling is hard work. And the climbing. And the cruising of the furniture. And the refusing to be changed unless he's standing up

I am very jealous of the parents of babies who sit nicely and play!

OP posts:
madwomanintheattic · 05/01/2010 23:11

ds1 bf'd every 2 hours 24/7 until 10 mos when i turned the tap off lol. (i know, i know, but lack of sleep was driving me crazy and he point-blank refused to drink out of anything except me)
so i appreciate the boob-monster thing! he was never really a big drinker after that - and i did fret a bit.

as long as the nappies are wet and the weight gain continues steadily, i honestly wouldn't worry.

ds1 also refused point blank to drink formula, so he went straight onto cow's milk (yes yes, i know, but he was an elephant baby, and refused water, expressed milk, juice, 4 diff brands of formula, etc etc etc)

i know this probably hasn't filled you with confidence over my mothering abilities lol, but he's 8 now and still alive.

JustAnotherManicMummy · 06/01/2010 00:07

No, no madwoman "still alive" is good!

I'm hoping DS just thinks he's 12mo, not 9mo, and doesn't need milk to sustain him any more and will only eat food and drink out of a cup. And that would also explain his silly notion that now is the time to learn to walk

I'm going to keep an eye on his weight... although it does mean I'll have to brave the HV and all her bull shit once in a while. I was hoping to avoid seeing one until his 2 year check-up!

OP posts:
New posts on this thread. Refresh page