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coldfish 
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Posted: 17 July 2009 at 7:39pm |
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Hi all,
Sorry if this question has been posted stacks of times before, but I don't have time to search the archives..
I need to get my baby to start bottle feeding quite soon, she is 3 months old and exclusively breastfed so far.
Next week I am starting polytech doing 2 night classes a week and for those classes I will express milk and get my mother to feed her.
We have tried twice now and she cries and cries and won't drink any. The first time I was in the room, the second time I kept away. She gets in a real state each time.
My classes are less than a week away now so I'm starting to panic. Does anyone have any tips on how to feed a baby that is usually breastfed? Are there any other methods to use, like those sucker cups that toddlers use?
Any help appreciated, thanks
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fire_engine
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Posted: 17 July 2009 at 10:18pm |
Try this or this or this
Good luck!
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coldfish
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Posted: 18 July 2009 at 8:54am |
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coldfish
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Posted: 20 July 2009 at 10:34am |
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Hi, I just thought I'd let anyone interested know that I bought another bottle, a NUK brand.
She didn't complain with the Nuk bottle and managed to latch on, and I've tried it a second time now and she drank 115ml in one go from the Nuk, over a period of 20 mins.
So I have satisfaction at last, I was started to get worried seeing as my classes start this week!
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Posted: 12 August 2009 at 1:12pm |
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yes
It took me nearly 2 months with 1 month serious training to get my daughter to take the bottles. We have changed from Avent to Nuk and eventually to Tommy Tippee. We also changed formula and settled down with Nan (Nestle).
At the end it was a combination of both and the fact that I had to drop 3 meals at once that got her to drink from the bottle. She is just a stuborn girl who did not like the gradual method.
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Natalie_G
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Posted: 12 August 2009 at 1:50pm |
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Yay good stuff, it can be tough I have known many mums who's babies wont bottle feed. I was lucky I made sure Arianne had a bottle at least once a week since she was born and when I took the boob away she took the bottle fine.
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Posted: 12 August 2009 at 4:32pm |
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glad you got something to work but i was going to say do you even need to as you could feed her before you go and then again when you get home.. (i dont know much about polytech courses and am assuming they arent all nighters). good luck on your course.
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Help! Bottle feeding..
