If you remember my little girl was not getting enough breast milk when she nursed and was underweight. He Dr. suggested i try giving her formula. So I did, and she was much happier and has gained over a pound in the last month. I have still been nursing in the morning and at night. There are times when she is not interested in nursing at all, but is most interested in the morning and hen I get home from work. I have a bunch of bottles in the freezer and the babysitter has been giving those as well. I just got a call from her indicating that baby has started refusing the breast milk. I guess this has happened for three days in a row now. I still have about 20 bottles in the freezer, and I really would like for her to have these. I can't believe she is rejecting breast milk. I feel rejected all over again. The big question is, how do I get these last bottles into her?
I'd recommend you mix half breast milk and half formula so that you can use up that precious breast milk.
H.,
Your baby girl is happy and thriving... that alone should make you feel like a happy, successful Mommy! I have raised two happy, healthy kids on formula. Your time nursing with a bottle can be just as wonderful and satisfying as that with the breast. Don't take your baby's preference for formula personally... she's probably just figured out that she can fill up better on the formula. (I'd take a milk-shake over skim milk anyday!)
E. G.
Hi H.,
Its trial and error. Here are a few suggestions:
1) you try feeding her the bottles of milk. on your days off give her those bottles after your morning feeding and before the night feeding.
2) you could try mixing 1/2 formula and 1/2 breastmilk.
3) mix the breastmilk in with rice cereal.
However you can manage to get it down will be beneficial.
T.
I apologize if what I suggested to you did not work. The answer to your question of how to get her to drink the rest of the breast milk , while she is drinking formula. What we are doing now for my grandson, is that we are mixing the breastmilk with the formula , at first we started rotating the feedings between the breastmilk and the formula, to find out that the breastmilk was not keeping him full, so we started mixing the two , because of all the milk in the freezer and with her having to pump. Doctors say to try and breastfeed as long as possible but sometimes that is not possible if it is not keeping the baby full enough. I hope this time I was able to help , if now I am sorry.
try mixing it with the formula
I'm sorry you're having such a tough time of it lately. I don't remember how old your little one is, but you could always mix the milk with solids - oatmeal, fruit, veggies etc to get it into her. You could also try and freeze some to make "momsicles" for when she's teething. Good luck!
Have you tried mixing the two (equal parts; 1/3 & 2/3; etc.)?
I suggest what Tiffany suggested: 1/2 breast milk and 1/2 formula and add it to cereal (if you're baby is eating cereal).
Also, it could just be that the breast milk the babysitter is feeding her is from a time when you ate something your daughter doesn't like the taste of. Have the babysitter try another bottle from a different time frame and see if your daughter will take that instead.
What I did sometimes is I would mix the breastmilk with formula. That way it helps cover the taste that she might not like. I noticed that my daughters would try and reject breastmilk if I ate something with alot of onion or something that was of that nature. Hope this helps
you could try to mix the breast milk in with the formula for the babysitter to give her. For example if she takes an 8 oz bottle mix 4oz of formula and add 4oz of breasrt milk.
You can always try mixing the formula with the breast milk until the breast milk is done. I never used formula, but I did have a few friends that did. For the first few months after they decided that breast feeding wasn't working for them,(they also had the same dilema, left over pumped breast milk) they mised the two. You might want to try this. Good luck.
Mix the breastmilk with the formula. I did this when weaning from Breastmilk to formula. mixes just fine. At first I thought it would be weird, but it was fine.
A.
Alot of the time if a baby rejects the brest milk even in a bottle ir may have been something you ate. My son absolutely would not feed if i had even sipped an ounce of dr pepper that day. can you remember if you ate anything different in that time? I hope this helps!!!
sounds like you ate something that your daughter didn't like (when you were pumping) I would definatly try mixing it with formula...so she gets the vital nutrients and other goodies that only breastmilk has.... If you can keep pumping. I'm willing to bet that she is just sensative to the taste of something you ate.... LOL my son makes the funniest face when I eat too much garlic...he LOVES the milk and eats more then at other times, but makes faces....
Try mixing 50% formula and 50% breast milk. I bet you she would take it then and would get all the good stuff she needs from your breast milk. Good Luck!
try mixing it into cereal (that rice cereal stuff)...that way she still gets the nutrients but doesn't really taste it
Just mix it with the formula.. do half and half or a third formula the rest breast milk and see if she will take it that way.. thats what I'm doing now for a boy I watch during the day.
It is great that you can give your little one some of your milk! I would start combining formula with your milk, so that she drinks it. Remember formula has a very strong flavor so she might refuse your milk because it doesn;t taste like that. Give her your milk as far as you can go; it will help keep her healthy.
Good luck!
At feedings times why don't you/babysitter mix the breast milk and formula? that way it doesn't go to waste.
