My six-month-old DD has just started nursery this week as I'm back in work. She's never taken a bottle, but after a couple of months of hard work, I'd got her to accept my expressed milk in a cup (one with a spout and one of those doidy ones). Phew.
I shouldn't have counted my blessings. Despite loving nursery (she's a jolly little thing), she is now refusing milk out of everything except me! We've tried offering her expressed milk from a cup instead of the breast, but she sobs until she's frantic. So at the moment she's having a feed first thing then at bedtime and barely an ounce during the day (she also doesn't feed at night - she's still sleeping from 7:30 until 6). I'm so worried she's dehydrated - and even before she started nursery she wasn't putting much weight on (barely an oz a week).
Can anyone help? Should I just perservere with the cup (or that tommee tippee bottle that looks like a nork?) - it's only been four days? will the determined little thing cave into hunger soon? help!
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TheOldestCat · 17/05/2007 19:09
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