As most of you know, I am a big fan of combining the booby juice with formula, so thought I'd share:
Charlie was breastfed for all feeds, but because I have our wedding coming up, I wanted him to start taking a bottle (so I can have a glass or 5 of champagne.)
When Charlie was a newborn he would happily take a bottle of EBM, but I got complacent, hadn't offered him the bottle for ages, so when we tried it again about 2 weeks ago he screamed the house down & would NOT take a bottle........arrrgggg!
Anyway, Andrew persevered, and we tried every combination of bottle, teat, temp, EBM, formula etc.
With a lot of persistence, Andrew cracked it last week, and now Charlie will happily take S26 formula from a Pigeon Perialistic (sp?) bottle. He will take it from ANdrew, me, and we will get my matron of honour to give him a bottle from THurday when she arrives.
So for the past week, for Charlie's afternoon feed, (about 4.30pm?) after he wakes from a nap (hungry but rested) he has a bottle. Then followed by bath, boob and bed at 7pm.
Eversince we have started this, CHARLIE HAS SLEPT THROUGH the night from 7pm to about 6.00am. Wooohoo!
AS you can imagine, I am pretty happy about this!
Olivia did exactly the same thing: as soon as we intorduced a bottle of forula for that afternoon feed, she started sleeping through. (She did it at 4 months).
Just thought I would share, so that if anyone else is thinking about combining boob and bottle they can see the benefits that I am enjoying.......I don't know if it works for all babies, but certainly in my experience, it is a really workable arrangement.......
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