Top tips for weaning an infant from the breast to bottle?
13 March 2010 6 Responses
A Parent asks,
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unless you are having real trouble why do you want to go and do that when breast milk is handy and free and formula costs so much and takes a lot of time and effort to prepare
Yell at the child to get its act together and stop acting like a baby.
Worked for me.
Come on, if you feed your baby from the breasts then it will like you better than dad! If you feed it from bottle….it might go to dad… that’s what happened with my cousin, he was drinking from bottle and he likes his dad better, always goes to dad…
When your baby was growing rapidly, frequent nursing was how you made your milk supply increase to fill the need.
To wean him or her gradually, without suffering engorged breasts, you reverse the process. Offer a little formula when the baby is hungry, and finish with breast milk. Let the baby nurse enough to relieve your fullness without emptying the breast completely. Soon you will be making less and less milk and will be able to stop nursing entirely.
Weaning too young will mean you’ll have to offer formula. After a few months (ask your pediatrician) it’s possible to wean directly to either whole milk or 2% milk. Some mothers are able to wean directly to a cup at a year or so.
Expect the diapers to start being much wetter and smellier. The bowel movements will change from loose to more solidly formed, and will also have a stronger smell. If you’re using cloth diapers, wash them every day or the ammonia odor will be horrible.
If you really don’t wish to or can continue breastfeeding, the easiest route will be of course to have the non nursing parent feed the bottle. Don’t attempt to make the night feeding your first go at using the bottle as that is a highly emotional time of day.
I am currently doing this as my milk just isn’t filling my baby up anymore even with solid food. What is working for me is expressing some milk and letting bubs start on the breast and then giving the expressed milk in the bottle. Once bubs gets used to the idea of drinking from the bottle you can cut the breast feeds out. I still breast feed at night as it’s easier and I still enjoy breastfeeding. If you want to put bubs on formula then you need to make the switch gradually so bubs doesn’t get constipated. Start by mixing 3/4 breast milk and 1/4 formula then 1/2 breast milk and half formula and so on until the bottle is just formula (If bubs is old enough for cows milk then you can do the same thing with the cows milk). Don’t listen to any negative comments, it’s your baby and you know what’s best for bubs.
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