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Re: 11 months, weaning NF - drop ozs or water down?
« Reply #15 on: April 29, 2014, 14:42:19 pm »
Quote from: babybarr on April 29, 2014, 14:29:58 pm
I think if you cut the oz first you have no where to go yk?
Yes, this was exactly my thinking.
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Re: 11 months, weaning NF - drop ozs or water down?
« Reply #16 on: April 29, 2014, 15:21:07 pm »
Yeah, my thought as well...though the night before last in my tired stupor I accidentally made her a full strength bottle at 2am or so and then she slept in??? And still took a full feed when I finally woke her. I know bf babies have nf for longer but is it possible that a ffbaby could? During the day she takes anywhere from 24-28 oz and although I upped her bottles she never takes more than that plus blw does not leave me room to add it to her food!
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Re: 11 months, weaning NF - drop ozs or water down?
« Reply #17 on: April 29, 2014, 16:12:58 pm »
I guess if she's hungry Heidi she's hungry??? She was bf before though.
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Re: 11 months, weaning NF - drop ozs or water down?
« Reply #18 on: April 29, 2014, 16:46:31 pm »
Yeah that is my thought! She is small but so active...perhaps she just can't manage to take in the calories she needs during the day.

Catherine have you tried watering down yet? I think I will go middle of the road tonight and do 4 oz watered into 6 oz and see what happens with that.
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Re: 11 months, weaning NF - drop ozs or water down?
« Reply #19 on: April 29, 2014, 16:56:18 pm »
I tried watering down dd2s bottle but it made her poops really loose and watery, so I had to reduce ozs.  I kept her sippy with water in it beside the chair in her room so if she needed a bit more after the reduced oz bottle I just gave her the sippy.

By thw time she was down to 4oz she would either sleep through or not, then I got brave and just started offering sippy with water instead of reducing ozs more.
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Re: 11 months, weaning NF - drop ozs or water down?
« Reply #20 on: May 07, 2014, 09:03:10 am »
Ok, thanks ladies.

We're finally having consistent nights of just one waking (for a feed), and he's very settled for the rest of the night now. No teeth, no illness (he's coughing a tad but I'm keeping my fingers crossed it's not going to progress) and no reflux troubles, so tonight I'm going for it or he'll still be having a night feed when he's 3 years old ;) :)
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Re: 11 months, weaning NF - drop ozs or water down?
« Reply #21 on: May 07, 2014, 09:24:20 am »
Good luck!  I've had to stop watering down because it is so watery they just vomit  ::)

I'm going to try again though when they're feeling better in case it was just related to that.  I have however started offering them less milk - last night was the first time and all that happened was they went in their cots awake as opposed to falling asleep on the bottle... we'll see!
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Re: 11 months, weaning NF - drop ozs or water down?
« Reply #22 on: May 07, 2014, 11:06:20 am »
Fingers crossed!
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Re: 11 months, weaning NF - drop ozs or water down?
« Reply #23 on: May 07, 2014, 13:25:56 pm »
Hope it went well!
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Re: 11 months, weaning NF - drop ozs or water down?
« Reply #24 on: May 07, 2014, 14:59:26 pm »
How's it going for you Heidi?
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Re: 11 months, weaning NF - drop ozs or water down?
« Reply #25 on: May 07, 2014, 18:11:50 pm »
Hahaha! She either sleeps thru until 5:30 or wakes anytime between 1:30-4:30...tried going cold turkey and she will not settle by any means until she eats (still watered down, roughly 2.5-3 oz of actual formula in 6 oz of water)  but she has been guzzling 32-35 oz in the day for 3 days??

Certainly hope it is working out better for you guys Catherine!
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Re: 11 months, weaning NF - drop ozs or water down?
« Reply #26 on: May 08, 2014, 20:53:22 pm »
Well last night did not go well. He took the watered down bottle fine, but was crying for the next couple of hours - seemed windy and in pain. We managed to miss his last ranitidine dose yesterday so could have been that, or perhaps the watery milk, or a combination of the two. I'm going to do the same again tonight and see what happens, but if we get the same I think I'll go back to dropping the ozs instead.
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Re: 11 months, weaning NF - drop ozs or water down?
« Reply #27 on: May 08, 2014, 20:55:48 pm »
Good luck for a better night tonight xx
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Re: 11 months, weaning NF - drop ozs or water down?
« Reply #28 on: May 09, 2014, 01:06:16 am »
Fx for tonight!
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Re: 11 months, weaning NF - drop ozs or water down?
« Reply #29 on: May 09, 2014, 05:10:19 am »
He was fine with it last night :)

How quickly did you water down again? Do I stay where we are for a few nights then lose another scoop?
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