Super late into and question re: mixing BM or Formula into food

Therese629829

Hi A13 -- I have been an on and off lurker for a while, but am a little shy and was always nervous to post. My baby Irene was born on August 29th, and I have loved following the board and gotten so much good advice from you ladies (and also you all are hilarious!). I am coming out of my lurkerdom to see if anyone has any advice for me about an issue I'm having with DD -- but I know it's a little creepy that I just lurked for this long without every saying anything, so, if you prefer, just flame away with your hilarious gifs

So, long story short, DD has always been a little fussy about eating.  She is mostly EBF, but once I went back to work when she was 4.5 months, I found that she was super distractible with nursing and mostly just pumped on the weekends when I was at home, nursing at night and in the AM.  About a month ago when she started sleeping more consistently, she lost interest in the MOTN and morning nursing sessions, so I have by default started EPing (except we supplement with formula a bit too).  Lately, though, she has just become almost impossible to give a bottle to.  She takes a little bit, swats the bottle, fusses, squirms, takes a little bit more, repeat, repeat.  We've checked with her ped, and there is definitely nothing physically wrong (no ear infection, no teething, no mouth sore, etc). The ped just thinks it is behavioral and not really uncommon.  On her suggestion, we've tried to give her her milk in the sippy (and have tried about 6,000 different types of sippies), but she isn't really into it, though she will take water or water w/juice from a sippy.  Oh, and she is totally fine with solids (finger foods and purees).  So basically it is a big hassle, but nothing too worrisome.

My question for A13 is whether anyone has experience trying to mix BM or formula into food, because I'd love to sneak in a few more oz in that way.  Of course, I have tried just mixing it in with purees (though I seem to always make them too runny that way) and have also mixed BM with banana and frozen it to make popsicles, which she likes.  I'm wondering if anyone has any other suggestions for integrating BM or formula into food or any other experience with this kind of situation!  Thanks so much and sorry for the novel and the late intro! 

rh10264706

I don't have any experience with struggling to eat bm or formula but I have made my lo pancakes and used breast milk. Only issue with doing that is then the batch is only for lo. You could mix bm into all kinds of things, pancakes, waffles, Mac and cheese, scrambled eggs. I have not used formula at all so I'm not sure but maybe you could do the same thing. Good luck!

Therese629829

Thanks so much, ladies!  These are great suggestions-- I appreciate your help!

LEMSA

There's a catch. If you heat the BM toi much all the fats and protiens break down and are useless. So cooking it takes away all the beneficial properities. It would have to be used "raw" so to speak. So oatmeal or mixed with other fresh purées/mashed foods (mashed bananna, avacado, potatoe).

LokiLahve

LEMSA said:

There's a catch. If you heat the BM toi much all the fats and protiens break down and are useless. So cooking it takes away all the beneficial properities. It would have to be used "raw" so to speak. So oatmeal or mixed with other fresh purées/mashed foods (mashed bananna, avacado, potatoe).

Your autocorrect here is cracking me up.

LokiLahve

Op have you tried a dropper or medicine syringe? Maybe she would take it from that. Not ideal, but desperate times...
As far adding it with food I'd try to mix it in with just about everything. Yogurt, oatmeal, purées. Also freeze it In small cubes and give it to her in a mesh feeder.

Therese629829

Thanks so much for these!  Fruit smoothies is something I never thought of -- I'll definitely try this!  Good to know about the temperature thing in cooking.  @lokilahve I tried a dropper this morning and she stole it and squeezed BM all over our couch!  Whoops