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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One minor thing--you might want to try avocados as the next food you introduce--they're really high calorie and many babies love them.  You can try giving your baby a piece large enough to hold and take bites from (baby-lead weaning) or mushing up a ripe one for spoon feeding and for your baby to scoop up with her fingers.  Small, bite-sized pieces are too slippery for a baby to easily pick up.  Avocados might help increase her overall calorie intake a little while you're working on getting more formula into her and getting the medical stuff sorted out.[/quote]

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I think you're doing a great job focusing on getting your daughter to drink formula but when you are giving her solid food (which you may as well since you can't be trying to bottle feed all day long), I would focus on high calorie foods.  You said you could give oatmeal so make sure to add in a lot of formula powder to that.  Can you cook the sweet potatoes in coconut oil or douse liberally with olive oil before feeding?  Avocados are also great (if they're too slippery for her to hold herself, roll them in crushed up puffs that you said had already been tested).
There are several milk bank websites you can google if you want to look into donor breastmilk.
Good luck![/quote]

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