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Formula recommendations

detroitnut2000detroitnut2000
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My son is 10 months and has been breastfeed since he was born. My wife's supply is dropping and we are thinking about possibly supplementing formula. does anyone have any suggestions? He does eat baby food, but sometimes it feels like that isn't enough.
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  • cedentoncedenton member
    At 10 months he definitely still needs formula or BM. If she wants to continue BF'ing and not supplement she should to a lactation consultant. If she doesn't mind supplementing I'd just go with the regular Similac or Enfamil formulas.
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  • detroitnut2000detroitnut2000
    edited August 2013

    Thanks for the advice. She still BFs him in the morning, @ night, and pumps during the day for his bottles at daycare. We have some in the freezer, but she feels she has a hard time keeping up with him eating.

     

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  • cedentoncedenton member
    edited August 2013
    detroitnut2000 said:

    Thanks for the advice. She still BFs him in the morning, @ night, and pumps during the day for his bottles at daycare. We have some in the freezer, but she feels she has a hard time keeping up with him eating.

     

    detroitnut2000

    Good for her for keeping up with it this long. Also, he may just need more solids. At 10 months he could be eating finger foods. Mine was eating breakfast, lunch and dinner plus two snacks a 10 months and it was/is mostly finger foods. Generally you want to increase regular foods, not BM/formula at this age.

    Things my son eats are fruit, grilled cheese, pb on toast, (used to eat veggies, but now get them in pouch form since he refuses them otherwise), beans, cheese, yogurt, chicken, turkey, salmon, tilapia...pretty much anything fairy soft and chopped up into bit size pieces.

    ETA: This is the eating schedule my son has to keep in the next room at daycare and he has to move in a few weeks. You may want to find out when your son will move up and what the expectations are for snack/meal times. They may want to start getting him on that schedule if it is coming up soon.

    Good luck!
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  • gemmeggemmeg member
    We used Similac Advance (the one with the blue lid) to supplement at 4 months and full time at 6 months.  Just depends on how your baby handles the formula as to which one you use.  It's trial and error unless you already know that your baby has a sensitive stomach or requires soy formula.  We got lucky and LO didn't show that he even realized we were giving him formula and not bm. You'll probably notice a change in his poo, but that's normal.  We buy the store brand now since the ingredients are exactly the same as the Similac, but at a much lower price.
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  • StephorseStephorse member
    Similac has a new formula just for supplementation. It's got a green lid. You could try that. Otherwise finger foods are good. Good foods to start with are bananas, other soft fruit like peaches, blueberries, pieces of chicken or ground beef, pancakes, and avocados. We went through the same thing, except my LO had a milk protein allergy so we had to go with allimentum. He gained more weight and was just happier with the formula and I was happier not to be pumping and on such a restricted diet. Whatever you decide I wish you and your wife the best of luck!
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    Thanks! He won't move daycare rooms till he is 18 months so we have awhile yet for that. His current room has him on a pretty good feeding schedule of every 2 hours with baby food in between bottles unless he has a long nap. They also give him gerber puffs and wagon wheels for snack time with the older ones in his room. We are just started giving him table food like mashed potatoes and bread. He only had his front 4 teeth right now.

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  • ellebee2ellebee2 member
    We started a slow weaning process at 9 months. DD still nurses in the morning and at night, but during the day I give her Emfamil A+ (she wouldn't take the powder, so we tried the ready to serve bottles and she's fine with those. When this case is done we will try the powder again because it is much less expensive). 
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