She likes the bottle!
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Topic: She likes the bottle!
Posted By: busymum
Subject: She likes the bottle!
Date Posted: 26 September 2007 at 1:15pm
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? -------------  |
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 26 September 2007 at 1:23pm
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Formula - I would think she's still too young for cows milk, even once a day. If she happily took it today with no weaning phase, I would think she will be fine to wean onto cows milk in a few months. ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 26 September 2007 at 1:32pm
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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. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 26 September 2007 at 7:55pm
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What's a good formula for 8-9mo? I'm clueless lol! ------------- |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 26 September 2007 at 8:33pm
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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. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 26 September 2007 at 8:44pm
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Josh has the red lidded Nurture one and hasn't had any issue with it. S26 is meant to be the closest to BM but still don't know if that is true, but that is the one Andrew had. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: yummymummy
Date Posted: 26 September 2007 at 9:17pm
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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.
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Posted By: CuriousG
Date Posted: 27 September 2007 at 12:52pm
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I would totally recommend Heinz Nurture Follow On (the red lidded tin). ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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