She likes the bottle!

While Kryssi was eating lunch today, I was quickly (yea right) expressing a bit of milk so I could give her a bottle afterwards, before her sleep. But expressing is a lot harder with half-full breasts than with chokka ones! Last time I expressed was when Hannah was 2-6mos and I could just get the milk started and it'd just about do it by itself LOL. Kryssi's 8 1/2 mos and expressing was much harder for much less, and not very comfortable either

So after she guzzled the bottle (in between pulling the teat out of her mouth and investigating it LOL) I let her finish off what I had in supply but I seemed to run out quickly and she was still hungry and not satisfied. I'd had enough of expressing for the moment so I whipped upstairs and put cow's milk in the same bottle, warmed it, and offered that to her. She guzzled that too - 100mls of it.

So I'm really pleased that she has taken to the bottle cause she's going to need one bottle feed per day from next week when I'm at work. But now I've gotta figure out what to put in it. I'm not too keen on the ebm idea anymore unless I can do it in the morning when I'm fuller? But maybe because she's down to 4 feeds a day I'll never be full enough to 'comfortably' express.

I'm hesitant to put her onto formula because then we'll have to re-wean in a couple of months (I expect to have her totally on water/cows milk by about 11mos, which isn't that far away). And I would like to keep up the bf outside of working hours, so we're only talking about one smallish feed per day.

What would you put in the bottle?

mmm, cows milk doesn't have the right nutrients in the right amounts for babies hence the recommendation it's introduced after 1 yr old. Even if it is just once a day.. formula tins acan be safely open for about a month so it wouldn't cost terribly much to use that until she's old enough to be weaned onto the cows milk later.

Just a plain old one for a baby 6mths plus.. there are heaps, nurture, sma, s26 etc, lots of people we know use nurture and that's what I used for my girls. I wouldn't tend to go for the one for "hungrier babies" because it's heavier and more casein based(or is it whey.. can't remember which one is usually dominant) which means it takes longer to digest.. prob not good for a wee girl that's used to breastmilk which digests a heck of alot quicker.

Any follow on formula will work. Because it's only 1 feed a day, you could experiment a bit more to find one she likes - maybe get a few different sachets and try them. We are on Karicare Gold with Gina - she loves it and it really agrees with her. But then she's on it full time so it makes more of a difference.
Good luck!