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Help! Need to switch from BF to Formula due to medical reasons

Danica - posted on 04/22/2009 ( 1 mom has responded )

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Due to medical reasons I need to stop breastfeeding and switch to formula. My son is 9 months old. He does not like the bottle and has not figured out his sippy cup yet (chews it and does not suck on it). We tried a bottle of formula the other day and he started crying frantically. He later kept reaching for me to BF him. Any tips on how to make this transition? I had hoped to nurse him until age one like his older brother. I have about a month to make the switch. I have no experience with formula. What brand of formula would you recommend? My son had colic as a younger baby and he has a sensitivity to rice cereal. My son is eating three solid meals a day. How much formula should I give him? Has anyone else had to do this?

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Emily - posted on 04/22/2009

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I haven't' had experience with this but I will hopefully be some help. For now leave the house when it is time for a bottle. Have someone else give it. That might help for a while because he will know he can't nurse. Give it time. Try a regular cup or one of those medicine squirters if he absolutely refuses the bottle and needs the milk calories. You will also need to make the transition easy for you- so you don't develop mastitis! You will still need to nurse a little bit so that you don't become engorged. Cabbage leaves help with this and they naturally contain something that dries up milk. Perhaps if your supply dips and he realizes he isn't getting as much milk he will be more willing to take a bottle knowing that there is nutrition in there. If you have any breast milk stashed try giving breast milk bottle s than mixing more and more formula in incase the taste of formula is why he balks.

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