Introducing formula?

care99

I have to go on 2 business trips next week and don't have enough frozen to cover the time I'll be gone.  Any thoughts/tips on how to choose a formula and introduce it?  Should I mix it with BM, or try a bottle plain?  She generally takes 5 oz. bottles at daycare (she is almost 5 months old)....would formula be the same amount or do they take more?  Thanks!

BootsOrHearts

Try it ahead of time to make sure baby will accept it. If not you may have to try other brands or mix it with BM to fool her. Some babies love formula and some will reject it outright, some will drink it but then it will make them sick afterwards. And of course they might like some brands but not others. They can be picky that way.

As a random tidbit, some brave person tasted a bunch of different brands of formula to see which ones tastes most like breastmilk and the answer is similac advance. that is the ONLY formula my guy would take when he was little and we had to supplement because of low supply. Then we tried Baby's Own and he likes that too so when/if we switch to formula that's what we'll use.

They will drink more formula than BM. I forget why.

5 oz seems like a lot too, are you sure your DC isn't tossing the leftovers from a bottle? My guy is exclusively bottle fed BM (he's almost 6 months) and he usually drinks 3 oz at a time, 7 or 8 bottles a day. During a growth spurt or first thing in the AM (he STTN) he may drink 4 or 5 but the rest of the day, no more than 3oz at a time. Of course all babies are different but that's been my experience. The average intake of a BF baby is 25 oz a day, but of course some are higher and some lower and yours could be on the high end. Just worth checking with DC and making sure they understand that BF babies drink less than their FF counterparts.