LO is 6 months old (last Friday) and is mostly breast fed, but supplement with formula when needed and he's starting to eat foods.
Before I went back to work at 3.5 months we had a really hard time getting him to take a bottle. He finally accepted the lansinoh mOmma but would still occasionally get mad and refuse bottles here & there. But now it's getting worse!
I nurse him 2-3x overnight (maybe part of the problem? But it's more times when I feel bad that he didn't eat all day), then I nurse before I leave for work, he's at daycare 9-5:30, I nurse him at 6, then again at 8 at bedtime.
During the day (this past week at least) he is refusing bottles except one and will only drink 3-4oz from that one bottle and then that's it all day. Then they are doing oatmeal mixed with 2-3oz breast milk 1-2x and a vegetable mixed with an ounce of BM to make up for it. Ugh!!
Our 6 month doc appt is next week, but we were in for a sick visit this week and he weighs 15.5 lbs - 16th percentile or so. I'm sure he needs to eat more during the day, and they spend a good portion of the day trying to get him to eat.... It's the only time he cries, when they try to give him a bottle. Otherwise he's happy and smiling most of the time.
Help!?!
We've been weighing her (because major weight loss during the flu) and she is gaining, just very slowly. I do hope she grows out of that phase soon though! I miss sleep...
even this weekend nursing wasn't as easy as normal. The only time he nurses really well without being distracted is late at night before bed and in the middle of the night.
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