Formula feeding
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Topic: Formula feeding
Posted By: popcorn
Subject: Formula feeding
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 7:02pm
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Hi there
I have been breast feeding my son for 6 months but now he has started biting down really hard on my nipples and it really hurts, so wondering about making the move on to the bottle. Are there any other Mums out there that have moved their babies on from breast milk to formula and which formula do you recommend and why? Thanks in advance!!!! |
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 7:22pm
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I've used 2 different types of formula with my boys. Andrew was on S26 as that was what was recommended to me by my MW (andrw started formula early on). Josh went onto formula at about 7 months and I put him on Heinz Nurture. My reason for this was it was the cheapest. My advice get a few stick packs (ring the formula companies and ask for samples) and try them out for a few days with your boy and see which is best for him. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 7:47pm
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dont do it - think of the money!!!
it will improve - they go thru a stage of that, one of many. ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: popcorn
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 7:49pm
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yeah I wanted to breast feed until he was 1 but it looks like I may have to go back to work part time unfortunately so may have to bottle feed anyway....
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 7:52pm
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thats a shame... that you have to go back to work that is... ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Posted By: popcorn
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 7:55pm
| yeah i am still coming to terms with it really, sounds pathetic i know! It will only be 2 or 3 days a week and he will be right next door in the baby centre. I work in the senior preschool, still it sucks... |
Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 7:58pm
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Could you express? Give him EBM while he's at work with you? Would your workplace give you time to feed him? I'm sure they have to make allowances for that.. I'm not 100% sure on that though.
------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: popcorn
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 8:03pm
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I have been relieving in the baby centre and breast feeding him on my breaks which is working fine. Might try expressed milk first, he takes the nuk now thanks to Mel!
Only thing would be that I would need to have time in the day ie my half hour lunch break to pump some milk to keep supply up really. might have to invest in an electric pump maybe... |
Posted By: Mum2ET
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 8:24pm
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SimoneF, I work part-time (2 days a week) and at the moment am expressing during my lunch break so I can continue breastfeeding Ella. At this stage it is working well and work has been really good about it- my parents place is a 5 min drive from work, so I take a little bit longer during my lunch break and go back there and express. I am using a manual pump, but if i had to work any extra days I would have invested in an electric pump. Good luck with whatever your decide to do ------------- Mum to Ella (5) and Tom (2) |
Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 8:27pm
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You can buy or borrow mine Simone.
I've got a Medela Swing. I reckon I used it for 2 weeks tops. I've also got the storage bags. ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3)
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 8:30pm
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I went back to work when Kryssi was 8 1/2 mos and I found expressing quite difficult at that stage because I didn't have much there, so the squeezing was rather uncomfy. Nothing like a baby just a couple of months. It's probably worth trying out to see how it goes.
As for biting, your best bet is still to see if you can resolve this as biting a bottle teat is such a nuisance (you have to buy more!). Loosen his jaw grip (by sticking your finger in his mouth and against your nipple as you pull him off), get him off there and put him on the floor for 60 secs. Then if he still seems hungry, try again. If he bites again, he's probably not interested, try again later. -------------  |
Posted By: popcorn
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 8:31pm
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hhmm thats definitely something to think about! Thanks Mel! I am useless at expressing milk via the hand pump which is why I was thinking of getting an electric one. I have been recommended the swing. PM me how much you were thinking of selling it for, I have no idea what they are worth. Still tossing up about just using formula so have a bit of thinking to do really
Thanks Mum2Ella its good to hear about other Mums breast feeding and working to see how that might work, what bottles does she use? |
Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 8:40pm
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God I don't know Simone, I brought it for $300... pfft, let me think about that one too. ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3)
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Posted By: popcorn
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 8:48pm
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gosh they are expensive! Hate making decisions
I have been recommended Heinz Nurture formula by my sis in law, any thoughts? |
Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 9:04pm
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Yes definitely! I used that for all my kids. Tried s26, but they hated it.
100% try that one. ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3)
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Posted By: Bel
Date Posted: 05 March 2008 at 10:40am
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Simone, I am using heinz Nurture for Luke and it seems to be working well. He still takes breast and bottle, so no problems there either... ------------- Mum to two beautiful kids
Luke (09.11.2007) Amy (01.04.2009) |
Posted By: Mum2ET
Date Posted: 05 March 2008 at 2:14pm
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Simone I have been using the avent bottles for Ella (and using the avent manual pump). Next time around I would definitely think about getting an electric pump (although they are expensive which is probably why I didn't get one this time around). ------------- Mum to Ella (5) and Tom (2) |
Posted By: popcorn
Date Posted: 06 March 2008 at 3:42pm
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just got back from the shops, bought the sample packs of heinz nurture stage 2 6month plus i hope that was the right thing to do? am thinking now maybe I should have started off with the younger one? he is 6 months old tomorrow
also which do you use the red one or the gold version? |
Posted By: Gaelic Lass
Date Posted: 06 March 2008 at 4:02pm
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I had to start some formula feeds when Georgia was only a few weeks old, as my milk supply was very low. She was fully formula fed from 3 mths and I have always used Heinz Nurture Gold. It is a really good formula and she has taken very well to it.
When she started solids, I switched to the Heinz Nurture (Red tin) - since she is getting extra goodness from her food anyway. Simone - the Follow on formula should be ok, as it is from 6 mths plus anyway. Both the red and gold versions are good. Georgia has no trouble switching back and forward if one is out of stock that week. Cheers. ------------- 
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Posted By: Loobee
Date Posted: 07 March 2008 at 1:54pm
| My boy was a late teether so managed to bf till 9months before the biting began which made me really uptight at feed times so I swapped to formula over a number of weeks.. I used the samples first and found that he definitely preferred S26 but I think that really depends baby to baby. At 10 months he is fully weaned and I am really enjoying the freedom and Dad is loving being able to look after him for extended periods. As he is only on three bottles a day a tin lasts 10 days so isn't really a financial issue. I did agonise over giving up b/feeding but honestly now that I have made the change I have no regrets. Good luck whatever you decide to do. |
Posted By: popcorn
Date Posted: 07 March 2008 at 2:13pm
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We have decided to give formula a go for many different reasons,
Loobee and others, how did you go about teaching your babies to go from breast to bottle? We tried giving him a bottle yesterday and he just screamed which is most unlike him, so I gave in and breast fed. He is more interested today but has gone back to chewing on the teat, he will take some and pulls the bottle towards him but only a few mouthfuls at a time |
Posted By: Loobee
Date Posted: 07 March 2008 at 3:03pm
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Hi SimoneF,
I had tried T on bottles at about three months to give EBM but he never took (have a large collection of unused bottles/teats to prove it)  Plunket advised ignoring the bottle and going straight to a cup which worked but it took DH to get him used to it as T just knew I was fobbing him off! I use Avent cups and spouts for three months up which involve a bit of sucking but not too much and aren't pretending to be your nipple! I dropped the day feeds first, then followed with first feed of the day and finaly the evening feed over a period of 10 days. I always stayed out of sound and sight when DH was feeding the first few times which seemed to help and then started taking over halfway. It may have been easier for me as I am pregnant again so T was going off the taste anyway - probably an extreme method though. . It may be stressful to start with but I assume your are feeding solids as wel so bubs won't starve if he doesn't take much to start with.
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Posted By: LJsmum
Date Posted: 07 March 2008 at 7:07pm
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Hi Simone
Wow 6 months old already!!! Good luck with bottle feeding it is hard in the beginning I used to give up and breastfeed luke too. That was the problem if he knew he would be BF after trying the bottle he wouldn't take the bottle.!!! But we got there good luck!! as the above lady said he's on food so will be o.k. How is he with a cup? by the way Luke's 1 soon  -------------  
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Posted By: Mum2ET
Date Posted: 07 March 2008 at 8:00pm
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I had problems getting Ella to have a bottle when she 3 months old. Basically after 3 weeks of trying I gave up and then a couple of weeks later introduced a sipper cup to her...which she took without any problems (she liked the fact that she could hold the handles and control it herself). then we tried introducing the bottle to her again at 6 months and she took it staight away.......basically i have never given Ella a bottle myself and have only ever got her caregiver and DH to feed her from a bottle (if I am in the room she won't take it as she prefers to breastfeed). At the first attempt I tried everything to get her to drink from it and she just wasn't ready..... sorry, don't know how much help that was......but I do know how frustrating it can be ------------- Mum to Ella (5) and Tom (2) |
Posted By: popcorn
Date Posted: 07 March 2008 at 8:40pm
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hi everyone
thanks for all your help and advise, might try the milk in a cup, he drinks from his nuby cup quite well but is a bit stop starty like he is with the bottle. I am wondering if I would be better off introducing the bottle with breast milk in it rather than trying to get him used to the formula and the bottle together? its such a guessing game! Milo1 i cant believe Luke is almost 1 that has gone so quickly! Do you get to have a party and a cake? |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 07 March 2008 at 9:22pm
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I had nightmares trying to get Miss Stubborn Maya to take a bottle, we started trying at 9 weeks and by the time she started daycare at 5 mths she still refused it so I had no choice but to breastfeed her in between classes, in my experience it didn't matter whether the bottle was EBM or formula, she wouldn't take either.
Sorry, I'm not much help am I  ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Kim
Date Posted: 07 March 2008 at 9:46pm
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My cousin had to stop breastfeeding her little girl cause she was going back to work and she wouldn't take the bottle so as she really loved dried apricots they stuck one around the teat and she sucked on that and that's how they got her to take a bottle! ------------- Zac Mark - 30.11.05 Samara Ailsa - 13.08.07 |
Posted By: pekemoemum
Date Posted: 08 March 2008 at 8:26pm
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wow, that was a clever idea Kim! ------------- Gina, Reef 15/6/03, Tyde 12/2/07 http://www.pekemoe.co.nz - Peke Moe - Unique NZ Made Baby Sleeping bags for babies who get out of swaddle/wrap |