Is There a Specific Way to Transition from Breast Milk to Formula?

It's easier for them to take both breastmilk and formula when they are tiny, but it's not unheard of for them to take both later. You don't know until you try.

B gives you good advice on how to mix them.

This is also how you can switch from formula to cow's milk. Except, you don't want her drinking cow's milk from a bottle. That's when you transition to a sippy cup.

The other thing is that when you get to formula in a bottle, around 11 months or so, start giving her formula that isn't as warm as usual. You want her to gradually get used to cooler formula so that it isn't as much of a shock to start drinking milk from the frig in her sippy cup. I learned this from daycare :) At one year, she doesn't need formula anymore. You can switch to whole milk. (She needs the fat in whole milk - don't give 2% or skim milk...)

Good luck!

I usually weaned over about a month. So my bedtime feed was usually the one where I didn't have as much milk (end of day, tired, etc.) so I gave a bottle of formula. Then in a a few days or so to a week, I'd introduce a bottle the next feed where I felt I wasn't especially full. And so on till mine were weaned. Kind of alternated breast vs. bottle for feeds, as you'll be a bit full with milk if you add in a bottle at first, but your milk will adjust over time. Good luck :)

Yep, what B said. Start off with mostly breast-milk and just a little bit of formula. Overtime, increase the amount of formula.

But don't assume you'll need to do that. Some babies will drink formula in one bottle and breast-milk in another with no issues. My youngest had a health issue and had to be bottle-fed. I pumped as much as I could, but some bottles had breast milk and some bottles had formula. He had absolutely no issues switching back and forth. Also, many babies in daycare will have formula while at daycare and nurse whenever they can. So you just never know.

You could just make a small bottle (2 to 4 ounces) and see how it goes. If your daughter rejects is, go ahead and slowly transition. But you might be surprised.

Are you pumping at all, or only breastfeeding? Does your baby go to daycare? Does your baby take bottles currently?

My answer changes based on these parameters. If you give more info, I'd be happy to give you some tips.

Sure.
Go a few days on 3/4 breast milk with 1/4 formula.
Then a few days of 1/2 and 1/2.
Then a few days of 1/4 breast milk with 3/4 formula.
And by then she'll be %100 on formula.

gradually mix a little formula into the breast milk. she'll take a bottle with expressed milk, i assume? if not, that's where you need to start.
don't do what i did- go back to work and make your poor husband start the baby cold turkey on formula. oh, what stupid young parents we were.
khairete
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I tried formula but my daughter didn't want it. We would up using powdered milk which is thin like breast milk for a few months. Talk with your doctor about possibilities.

the other S.

I would mix formula and pumped breast milk -- mostly breast milk with a little of formula and gradually increase the amount of formula while decreasing the amount of breast milk.

Just know that there is a chance that the gradual transition won't work. It didn't work for me because my son was very picky about the taste of the formula. I had to try four different types of formula before finding one that he would take. Once I found the formula he liked, going formula cold turkey worked.