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BF baby refusing afternoon bottle...help! long

hwsgigles8hwsgigles8 member
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My DS started solids back in February about 6 months old (dinner only), we added breakfast around April (so 2 solid meals most days) and then started lunch about 2 weeks ago.  He is BF by the way.

Well this week, DS has been REFUSING his afternoon bottle (12:30).  He won't even touch it at the babysitter and has even started throwing it.  Some days he won't take much of his 9 am bottle either.  This means he goes some mornings from nursing at 6am, breakfast @ 7:30 (cereal w/ 3 oz of milk & fruit), until almost 4 without any milk, but he will eat his yogurt around 11 for lunch. 

 He is now waking up at night to eat because he is not getting enough during the day.  I don't know if I should stop feeding lunch so he'll drink his milk or what.

I called the dr and they said not to worry unless he misses several bottles/nursing sessions.  Has anyone experienced this or anything like this?  Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated!!! 




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  • hwsgigles8hwsgigles8 member

    Ok thanks for the repsonse.

    I should have mentioned my pedi said DS should continue to take the same amount of milk with the addition of solid foods (he's in the 10% for weight-although he doesn't look like it!).  

    I may have to call again & talk to the dr we saw last month. 




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  • google123google123 member
    It's ok. He's getting his nutrients from solids And you shouldn't drop a would meal and go back to bottles. After 1 milk is supposed to be the beverage not the meal. 
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  • mvhydemvhyde member

    Hi, are you nursing before you give him solids? I know that the old advice was to give them solids after nursing but that was to get babies off the bottle and onto solids.

    But babies can't really absorb the nutrients in solids even at this age. Every LC and pro-BF pedi I have met says that 'food before one is just for fun.' So if you are filling him up on solids he won't nurse and won't get the fat and calories he needs from pureed veggies and fruit (that don't have fat in them).

    I would nurse him no more than 60 mins before the meal. I nurse my guy 20-30 mins before and he still eats  good amount.

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  • law&orderlaw&order member
    We see a pediatric nutritionist and she has said several times that this is a huge transitional period for babies (10-12 months). Their schedules are changing, they are meeting major milestones, and they are (in most cases) becoming eaters instead of drinkers. That said, 7:30-4pm seems like a long time for no milk.  Perhaps the sitter should try the bottle around 11:30 or noon and solids after?  Seems like a little adjustment in his feeding schedule might be in order.  
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  • dairygirl19dairygirl19 member

    Yeah, I'm with the first poster. I'm not sure I would worry about this either.

    If he's genuinely contented and happy he is just fine.

    Some babies drop bottles earlier than others. My pedi told me after 9 months it didn't matter as much as if they were say 6. My pedi pushes the other way though. He told me when LO was 9 months she should only be having like 16 oz. of formula a day and we were still on 24plus oz.

    I just decided not to worry about it. She was happy healthy and in my heart I knew she wasn't ready.

    Now at almost 11 months, she's dropping bottles like crazy all on her own. We had a phase where she was up at night looking for a bottle, so now I just add a few extra oz to the bedtime bottle and we're golden (She only gets 6 oz. bottles on avg...so her bedtime is 8).

    I also have neices and nephews that didn't were nursing only once or twice a day by 10ish months. Worked for them and they still thrived. When I worked in daycare I ran across kids like that all the time and the next one be almost 16 months and still on a bottle because they didn't eat much.  

    Basically, I don't usually buy into pedis food advice. Three different pedis will give you 3 different answers on food and every baby is so, so different in the food department that I've just learned to trust my instinct.

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    I agree with the pp that food advice from a pedi is quite varied.That said, have you tried giving LO milk in a sippy cup, my LO wanted nothing to do with the bottle by that age but was still very happy to have a sippy cup or two of pumped milk.
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  • hwsgigles8hwsgigles8 member
    imagemvhyde:

    Hi, are you nursing before you give him solids? I know that the old advice was to give them solids after nursing but that was to get babies off the bottle and onto solids.

    But babies can't really absorb the nutrients in solids even at this age. Every LC and pro-BF pedi I have met says that 'food before one is just for fun.' So if you are filling him up on solids he won't nurse and won't get the fat and calories he needs from pureed veggies and fruit (that don't have fat in them).

    I would nurse him no more than 60 mins before the meal. I nurse my guy 20-30 mins before and he still eats  good amount.

    We have been doing solids between nursing sessions.

    6am nurse

    7:30 breakfast

    9:15 nurse/bottle 

    11:00 lunch

    12:30 bottle/nurse

    4:00 nurse

    5:30 dinner

    7:30 nurse

    so everything is pretty spaced out.  I can try doing the food closer to nursing times.  Thanks for the advice!




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