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Old 05-22-2007, 03:50 PM
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Default My daughter is 5 month old, and breastfeeding, she won't drink from a bottle help?

my daughter is now 5 month old, i breast feed her since she was born, im a full time mother, sometime i want to go out, and i gave my mother in law a formulas and soild food, she wont take them, she was crying, screaming. she called me i came home to feed her, she was all happy. then i try to feed her with the bottle, and she didnt like it, i try all the nipple, she wont take them. help, sometime i want to go out and have fun every oncce a while.. she have to drink my breast milk ONLY! so please give me a good advice??? thank you!!
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Old 05-22-2007, 08:13 PM
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Try using a breast pump before you go out so your mother-in-law can feed your daughter warm breast milk. It will be a hard transition, but you daughter needs to learn that it will be okay if another person feeds her. Where is Dad? Doesn't he ever try to feed the baby?
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Old 05-22-2007, 08:19 PM
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definatley you'll need to use a breast pump...formula isn't going to cut it...it's just not the same. try pumping your mild and feeding her from a bottle yourself ...using a nipple that most looks like a nipple. after she gets used to you doing this, then let the mother in law feed her while your there. see if she's doing it right. do this until your both comfortable. it's hard to have fun going out if your worried about your baby not eating! also...are you sure your mother in law WANTS you to go out...??? think about that too
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Old 05-23-2007, 06:19 AM
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here's a suggestion... you could buy a breast pump... that way you can store some breastmilk in the refridge for when you go out... and she can be feed by the bottle. the best kind of nipple for a baby coming off the breast is something that feels/looks like your breast to the baby. playtex is one of the best ones to change from breast to bottle. here's a link:http://www.playtexproductsinc.com/in...nurser.aspjust scrowl down to nipples... there is also the breastfeeding section that will show you what they have for breast pumps, if you decide to stay with your milk for the baby.though what i would do is slowly change her from your milk to formula. or you could try mixing the two... and putting less and less of your milk each time, until she is used to having just formula for her bottle.
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Old 05-24-2007, 09:29 PM
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I had/have the same problem with my daughter who is now 9 months old. My advice to you is have a little bit of patience. As she gets older in the coming weeks/months she will start eating solids and her need for breast milk as often decreases. She may still cry when you go out and seek your breast milk for comfort, but at least you can be certain that her nutritional needs are being met for the couple of hours that you are away from her. Whilst you go out, you mother in law will be able to feed her solid foods if she is hungry. At 5 months she is still a little bit young for solids, but as she gets a little older she will be quite happy to accept them even from someone other than mom. In my case, my daughter never took a bottle and going out is still a big challenge, but that has a lot more to do with separation anxiety than with hunger. I too had a couple of days that my mother would call me to come home because the baby wouldn't stop crying. In reality she wasn't crying because she was hungry but because she wanted to be with me. As sweet as this is it is also very suffocating at times, and you just need to have a talk with your caretaker about realistic expectations. Your daughter may very well not enjoy staying with your mother in law, and getting her to take a bottle isn't likely to change that. The only thing that will help is constant exposure to the situation. The more often you go out and leave her with your mother in law the easier it will get. With my mother, I leave my daughter with her for about an hour every week or so, not so much because I need to go out, but more so that my daughter is exposed to the experience of grandma watching her. By doing this frequently, and for short periods of time she is learning that when mom leaves me with grandma it is okay because mom will be back soon. The more comfortable she gets with this situation the longer I can leave her with my mom. I certainly can't stay out all night or anything like that, but it is enough time for me to go out for dinner with my husband. Another piece of advice I have to offer is that "training" your daughter to stay with your mother in law is just as much about getting your daughter comfortable with the situation as it is about getting your mother in law comfortable with the situation. This was particularly true of my mother who never breastfed and found it very frustrating that I couldn't just leave a bottle that the baby would take with content. My mom is starting to get use to taking care of my daughter without the assistance of a bottle and I am sure your mother in law will to. Like I said as she gets a bit older and starts eating solid foods, your mother in law will find it easier to comfort any hunger cries.I don't know whether you have considered this or not, but my daughter skipped the bottle and has started using a sippy cup. She never really took to the expressed breast milk or formula (but then again she won't drink juice either), but she does drink water in it and really does enjoy it and finds comfort in it. She started drinking from a soft tip sippy cup at 6 months of age. Maybe if you are more persistent than I was, you could get your daughter to drink milk from one...it is certainly worth a try if you have had no success with bottles. Playtex has a great stage 1 sippy cup that has a soft tip on it. http://www.playtexproductsinc.com/in...yStage.aspGood luck
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Old 05-25-2007, 05:47 AM
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if your baby is breastfed, that might be why she is rejecting the formula. definitely pump your milk and don't try giving her the bottle yourself...sometimes, breastfed baby's will not take a bottle from the mother...
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