Until now I`ve been exclusively breastfeeding. With the occassional bottle of pumped breastmilk. It was no easy feat to get Luca to drink from a bottle. I had bought a whole bunch of glass bottles for the obvious reasons. Glass is better. However, he totally hated those bottles and gagged. I felt so bad. So then I tried the Nuk bottles, as I got one free in the mail for signing up to Nestle . At first he took the bottle. The very next day I tried again and he wanted nothing to do with it. So again I went to the store and bought a different bottle. Tommy Tippee brand from Babies`r`us. Finally I found a bottle that he was ok with. Or so I thought. He drank from the bottle several times and then I guess it was my fault for waiting a long period of time before trying again and once again, he hated it. Ugh! Not that I was bottle feeding him often. It was just in case I needed to leave him somewhere for longer than one feeding.
The other weekend, we had a wedding to go to and Luca was going to have his first night away from us. I left him with my parents. I was really nervous that he wouldnt take a bottle and my mom would have a hard time and we could end up coming home. So I left a collection of bottles with my mom, every bottle I had, a dropper, and a sippy cup. Off we went to the wedding and I was so panicked. At around 9pm, my cell rang and it was my mom. I was sure that she was going to say that I needed to come home because the baby was freaking out and he wont eat. However, to my suprise, he was fine and ate. Apperantly at first my mom had tried a bunch of different things and he wouldnt eat, so she waited and hour and tried the Nuk bottle and he guzzled the whole thing. Fewf! Success and relief. He was such a good boy that night. He drank all his bottles no problem.
I didnt want to make the same mistake that I had made with the other bottles, so now I give him one bottle every other day. He`s an expert now and actually gets excited when he sees the bottle. Cutie!
Now that we had the bottle thing down, I wanted to try formula. I had received a free tin of Nestle goodstart formula in the mail. So I kept trying and putting a few drops on Luca`s lips and he would make such a grossed out face. My baby seems to be picky! Hehe! So my mom bought the already prepared Similac formula. I was sceptical, but decided to try it. I filled the bottle to the top, and guess what....no faces, no fuss, he drank every last drop of the 5oz. I was shocked. One, that he liked it, and two that he ate 5 oz! Good job. So now I feel happy that I have all alternatives in case I cannot breastfeed. I didnt want to be stuck in case of an emergency or god forbid for some reason my body stops producing milk.
I wonder if people think of these things. If you dont intriduce your baby to a bottle at some point, he might not like it. Until it happened to me, I never in a million years thought that a baby would be fussy with a bottle and different nipples, etc. I figured, babies will drink from a bottle...it`s what they do. Boy was I wrong. Who knows, maybe its just my baby who`s picky. All good....at least I persisted and ended with success.
Food will be coming soon. In a month or two! That should be interesting!
Ni
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