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How long can 8mo go between feeds?
« on: January 23, 2018, 12:43:26 pm »
I’m going back to work once a week in March, dd will be just turning 8 months old then. The problem is that I will be away from her for 5 hours and she still won’t take a bottle. We started trying at about 4 mo, she started taking a bottle after about a week of trying but then stopped again. Since then she’ll maybe have a few sips, no more. She’ll drink tea from a bottle when we give her solids but flat out refuses milk. We have tried different bottles, temperature, waiting 3 hours from her lat feel, less etc. I even tried mixing her tea with the milk but still she won’t do more than a few sips.
My mom will be with her when I’m working and I’m stressing about how she’ll manage without being able to feed her!

I’ll be out from 3pm till 7.45pm once a week. What can I do?





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Re: How long can 8mo go between feeds?
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2018, 17:43:21 pm »
How often does she feed now? It's possible she could have a few feeds before that and one after. I'd go for 4 feeds absolute minimum at that age and hope she is taking a decent quantity of solid foods.

Does she drink water from a cup? You could try milk in an open cup, a free-flow sippy or a straw cup perhaps.
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Re: How long can 8mo go between feeds?
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2018, 18:50:14 pm »
She’s feeding every 3-3.5h now at 6mo with 3 NF.
She’ll drink rooibos tea from a bottle but I don’t let her chug it down, just 30ml or so at meals. When I put milk in the bottle she just won’t have it. Last week I got get to drink 50ml of milk but that was a week ago. I just tried to make sure she was hungry, bf at 3pm and after the nap tried for 4h to do a bottle. She attacked my breast after so obviously hungry.
It’s so frustrating, DH can’t help with NF and I can’t leAve her more than 2h.

So at 8mo if we do 2 or maybe she’ll take 3 feeds before I leave, lots of solids to keep her going and then I feed her at BT? It should be ok. Assuming she’ll still be doing at least 2 NF if not 3 at the rate she’s going.






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Re: How long can 8mo go between feeds?
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2018, 18:52:12 pm »
Oh and it’s not that she doesn’t know how. She just won’t.
I got her a soppy cup with a spout and she won’t have milk in that either.
Mixed milk with tea and nope. A few sucks and she’s done.





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Re: How long can 8mo go between feeds?
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2018, 22:36:09 pm »
Yes that should be fine. She may even take the milk from a bottle if she realises you aren't around as an option.

I meant to say she may reverse cycle and start taking more at night.
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Re: How long can 8mo go between feeds?
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2018, 07:33:30 am »
More at night, just what I need lol.
Ok thanks, I won’t worry then. I’ll keep on with the bottle but if it doesn’t work I know she’ll be ok. Hopefully it will go well so I can start expanding my hours at work.





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Re: How long can 8mo go between feeds?
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2018, 16:29:04 pm »
Yes it's not ideal but it's not forever
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