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BTDT Breastfeeding Mommas
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babybeluga
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BTDT Breastfeeding Mommas
DD is 9months old. I work part-time 5 days a week- 4 hrs each day. DD gets 1 bottle (& I pump) while I am at work. For the past few weeks she is totally blowing off the bottle. She gets excited when she sees it but then will take a few sips & then can't be bothered. This happens no matter who is watching her/giving her the bottle. She used to drink 5oz bottles but as of today I'm only filing bottles to 4oz bc dumping so much BM down the drain every weekday kills me!(today she barely drank 2 of the 4oz) Anyone have a similar experience? She is eating more solids so I would think maybe she isn't hungry for bottle but when I am with her she will nurse. I haven't changed my diet or how I am storing the BM before she drinks it & she has been taking bottles fine from everyone since she was 5 weeks old up until the last month or so. Its really bothering me dumping out so much BM when I absolutely loathe pumping. Any ideas, advice or similar situations?
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Posted 2/11/13 3:10 PM |
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Re: BTDT Breastfeeding Mommas
My first HATED drinking from a bottle. Honestly, around 8 months old I started freezing my milk in 2-ounce increments and thawing as needed at home/daycare so we wouldn't waste any!
If she's BFing normally when you're there, it's probably not a lack of interest in the milk but more of just refusing an actual bottle. We gave up the bottle at 9 months with my first because he just hated it. He would barely drink BM from a sippy too. He would make up for it once I got home from work though and the ped said that was fine. He was always above the 90th percentile so I was never worried about his health or weight gain.
I would just start leaving smaller amounts of milk this way you don't waste any!
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Posted 2/11/13 3:15 PM |
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