How Can I Bring Up Baby’s Weight Without Supplementing?
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Anonymous
How would Similiac notify you? How do you know it’s stored properly? You have to find a formula your baby will drink, OP, or he could face serious health risks. Stop making excuses and supplement and pump. |
Anonymous
Op this pp has answered your question exactly. It is grueling but doesn’t involve supplementing. I hope you either soldier this option or try supplementing; your son needs food. |
Anonymous
| Fed is best. You need to feed your baby, this can be dangerous. |
Anonymous
This is a really good point - my LC had me try nursing with a little tube right next to my nipple when my DD was having a hard time in the very beginning. This was someone at the breastfeeding center of NOVA - I think her name was Josie. |
Anonymous
It’s usually in the news when something is recalled here. We won’t be notified if it happened in another country until later. |
Anonymous
This sounds like a normal weight gain to me for a breastfed baby. If he lost weight at birth like most babies do, he was likely in the high 6lbs range. Over 8lbs would mean he gained at least 1lb in the last month which is decent. |
Anonymous
+1 Try mixing. |
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My baby went through this. You keep trying to see what works. I know you said your baby would take breastmilk in the bottle but not formula. But maybe your baby will take formula in another type of bottle. Try varying temperatures, will your baby take cool formula or does he or she prefer warm formula. I know you tried five brands but try a sixth brand. Maybe your baby will take formula from another person asides from yourself. Check with your doctor but maybe putting one drop of non alcoholic vanilla into a bottle may work. This is the experimentation period and boy does it suck. Good luck.
As for the “this weight is normal for a bf baby”, I’ll believe OP’s pediatrician over a anonymous poster anytime. |
Anonymous
Start with 90% bm + 10% formula |
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OP, you need to talk with your pediatrician again. When you fall into the failure to thrive category it is a very serious and dangerous issue. Your baby needs that nutrition now for brain development. Since you said you’ve tried multiple formulas with no success and refuseimported formula you need to triple feed and you need to start right away. Plus, I also think you need to talk to someone about postpartum depression as well. Feeding around the clock every two hours means you’re not getting enough sleep and possibly not thinking completely clearly. Help yourself to help your baby.
Let me tell you a little story. My oldest had issues with latching. I ended up having to pump in order to feed him, but no matter what I did I could not pump enough. We made the decision fairly quickly to start formula and it turns out that my child had a pretty severe milk protein allergy to boot. So, all the formulas we tried he would have massive diarrhea and vomit for hours. We finally put him on a hypoallergenic formula and low and behold he started gaining weight and was a happy baby. I hated that I could not breast-feed and I hated that I had to feed formula. However, I now have a teenager Who is doing fabulously in high school and is very rarely sick. Formula is OK. I’m going to tell you that it saved his life because it did. |
Anonymous
Most of them are made at the same factory in Vermont. Do some research. |
Anonymous
No, they really are not mostly made in Vermont!!! 
And the ingredients are almost always made and shipped from overseas. |
Anonymous
Store brand formulas are manufactured by Perrigo, whose manufacturing plant is in Vermont. They also make Bobbie formula, which has been mentioned on this thread. Anyway, the argument that American formulas are manufactured overseas and therefore are just as safe as European formulas is silly. European formulas are perfectly safe for infants - European babies are not malnourished. OP is just coming up with straw arguments because she is too selfish to put aside her own desires and parent the child she has, not the child she wanted. A PP who brought up what happens in developing nations if a mother’s milk supply is low (and doesn’t have access to formula and clean water) was absolutely right. Those babies are malnourished at best, dead at worst. This “breast is best” nonsense is terrible. My SIL (much older than me - my nephew is early 30s) told me how for the first 6 weeks of my nephew’s life she tried everything she could to breastfeed. At his 6 week appointment my nephew had barely regained his birth weight. The pediatrician told her “Give that baby a bottle”. And she did, and he thrived. That would NEVER happen now. Women are encouraged to pursue breastfeeding at all costs, and it’s sad. At least OPs pediatrician has told her to supplement. OP - listen to the pediatrician. If your baby ends up with a failure to thrive diagnosis, it will be no one’s fault but yours, and you will have to live with that. |
Anonymous
You have no idea what you are talking about. I wonder if you even have kids let alone any that are under the age of, say, 10. This is narrative that you convinced yourself exists. When DD was 6 days old, she was struggling to nurse. Her weight was dropping. My super pro-breastfeeding pediatrician said she needed nutrition now and to give formula and try triple feeding. After nursing, give the baby either formula or what I could pump. She had me come back for a weight check in two days. This is the norm. Yes, breastfeeding is strongly encouraged, but never at the cost of the baby or mother’s well-being. |
Anonymous
Just because it’s your experience doesn’t mean there’s a plethora of pressure to breastfeed at all costs. And I am a new poster. Ranging from lactation consultants that come right in even though I requested I did not want one and announced to everyone I wanted to formula feed at the hospital to moms groups. |