Help me get LO to drink

Re: Help me get LO to drink

• EandIMommy86 member

  February 2014

  Try coconut milk. She might like it

  
  
  
  
  
  

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• grimesk12 member

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  Bella- DH gives her a bottle when I'm at work and she recently began wanting to lay in the crib with it and then she hands it to him once she's done and that's the only way she'll nap for him. The other bottle she gets with a meal so it'd be easy enough to put it in the cup instead. Soy milk has a lot of hormones in it and our pedi recommended that we don't give it to Mira. We are a dairy free household so DH and I use almond milk so ideally we'd like her to drink that but I'm open to other ideas..

  
  

  Tavia- I hadn't thought of coconut milk; it might be worth a try. Thanks

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• grimesk12 member

  February 2014

  Manda+Chase- The pedi said if we were going to cut down on breastmilk to substitute almond milk. We can't do dairy bc of her allergy; she is small and we do things like add olive oil to her food, lots of avacodos, etc so a higher fat content would be great but it can't be dairy based. 

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• DeniseRN member

  February 2014

  Don't worry about it! Just make sure she's getting fluids, protein, fat and calcium from other sources Caleb was the same way

  
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• grimesk12 member

  February 2014

  Unfortunately my frozen stash is gone..we have tried mixing breastmilk with almond milk and she still won't drink it and it killed me to watch DH pour it down the drain. I literally only pump enough milk for the next day which is another reason I wanted to stop pumping. 

  
  

  Denise- I like your idea I'm just not sure how we'd get her to nap. I feel like if we can have her drink a bottle/sippy of something other than water she'll do better.. I dnk...

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• DeniseRN member

  February 2014

  She will adapt! It will be tough I won't lie. Just do what you gotta do to get her exhausted enough to fall asleep another way like in a car or stroller. Or just CIO. Babies are very resilient

  
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• bcbuzzafsu member

  February 2014

  Chocolate "milk"?

  
  

  Rice milk is sweet like breastmilk.  I agree with her, I don't like almond milk either.

  
  

  
  

  
  
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• aylafsu88 member

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  bellaxanthe said:

  Have you tried mixing it half almond milk half pumped breast milk?  Do you have a frozen stash that you can prepare that way?  Will she take almond milk in a bottle verses a cup?

  This! I had to mix for 3 weeks to help LO adjust. I started with 25 almond milk/75 BM. I did this for one week and then did 50/50, then 75/25. The gradual adjustment helped her and she had no issues with drinking it straight after that.
  
  
  

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• grimesk12 member

  February 2014

  Thanks for the suggestions ladies! I've been hesitant to try mixing the breastmilk/almond milk bc if she doesn't drink it then it's wasting the breastmilk I work so hard to get. I think we may try coconut milk and see what happens. I hadn't considered rice milk and would have to research more about it..

  
  

  
  

  
  

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