Since my Paediatrician of Doom seems to focus mainly on freaking me out rather than being helpful (sample quote from last time: "Now go away, come back in three months, and make her head bigger." How on earth I'm supposed to do that, she did not bother to explain, and I had got to a point where I didn't bother to ask!), I am asking other people for advice... and have the address of a new paediatrician to call.
I am also feeding her solids at those three meals, sitting next to her and eating my own. But as I still have milk (although now that I'm working, she's getting less feeds, as she has always refused the bottle, even with expressed BM), she gets fed boob 5-6 times in 24 hours. Still, I have a nasty feeling that my supply is shrinking, so I was wondering whether I was supposed to supplement with formula once it does give out... or just go straight to juice, with cow's milk at 1 year, or what they call "follow-up milk" before that...
Fortunately, she's eating like a little piglet, now that she has finally deigned to submit to the indignity of having a spoon shoved into her mouth!
I mixed formula with BM until my supply was gone. While it was still her primary source of liquids, I think we introduced juice when we started introducing a sippy cup, but only a little at a time and we added a little water to it so that it wasn't full strength. I'm not one that worries too much about her getting too much juice, even now we seem to have a good balance between milk and juice...with juice usually at snack times and once in awhile at breakfast and supper.
I would keep offering Z BM/formula as a primary source of drink until one year when you introduce milk. But if you wanted to introduce juice now, I don't think it would hurt.
Kaitlyn didn't like the spoon either but she got used to it as we introduced more purees. Keep trying! It sounds like you are doing fine!
I am also feeding her solids at those three meals, sitting next to her and eating my own. But as I still have milk (although now that I'm working, she's getting less feeds, as she has always refused the bottle, even with expressed BM), she gets fed boob 5-6 times in 24 hours. Still, I have a nasty feeling that my supply is shrinking, so I was wondering whether I was supposed to supplement with formula once it does give out... or just go straight to juice, with cow's milk at 1 year, or what they call "follow-up milk" before that...
Fortunately, she's eating like a little piglet, now that she has finally deigned to submit to the indignity of having a spoon shoved into her mouth!
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I would keep offering Z BM/formula as a primary source of drink until one year when you introduce milk. But if you wanted to introduce juice now, I don't think it would hurt.
Kaitlyn didn't like the spoon either but she got used to it as we introduced more purees. Keep trying! It sounds like you are doing fine!
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