How much breast milk does a 8 month old baby need?
Hi,
My bub has been going through a terrible teething week with her top teeth just erupting, I'm assuming it's related but she has stopped accepting bottles. She just flips out if she even sees the bottle, DH hasn't been able to get her to have a bottle all week while I was at work between 8-4 (I work 3 days). But she'd still drink from me in the morning, when I got home, and unfortunately more through the night to make up for it and was demanding a bottle but only from me in the evening.
(The reason she has a bottle of formula is I've got chronic low supply, needed motillium to bring my milk in properly and at my max on 120g I was getting 600ml max a day, now that I've weaned off at last check I could get about 500ml over 24hrs) So she's always had a top up.
She has started eating again (yep, went off that too for a couple of days) and so I've been feeding her a lot more since she won't take a bottle. I'm just worried this isn't ok at her age yet? My plan was to lose the top-ups as she got older if she would cooperate but is it ok for her to go all day with just food and a bit of water when I'm at work? Is it ok for her to only have what I'm producing plus food at her age, or should she be drinking more milk? She still arches and screeches often when I put her into 'breastfeeding' position (except at night) but once she attatches if I walk around she's happy as larry and relaxes into it. But she will NOT take the bottle, she'll take a few sips of water or juice from a straw or sippy cup, that's it. Can anyone help?
