HELP! advice on weaning my 5mnth old son off breastmilk PLEASE?

Question

he loves his breastmilk so much and its such a struggle at the moment hes just not intrested in the bottle and will refuse with a good fight

Answer 1

I would try using a cup. Babys that breastfeed have a diffrent sucking action so he will struggle with a bottle. When babys are on the breast they munch rather than suck. There are alot of diffrent cups on the market for babys, i would say the doidy cup is the best, i used on my daughter and she was fine once she got used to it. It might be a bit messy at first but persist and he will be fine. mothercare sells them

Answer 2

My son is already 15 months and he's still breastfeeding. I don't mind this as this is our special time / cuddle time. I love it when he's pressed against my skin looking at me. Anyway, before I returned back to work, I slowly introduced the bottle when he was 5-6 months old. He was a fighter and would protest in the beginning but he got around to it eventually. The key is patience and consistency. Offer the bottle everyday at the same time of the day. For me, I offered the bottle every lunch time. Even though he would cry, I would just hold the bottle in front of him and wait for him to grab it. He will eventually take the bottle from you when he gets the signal that you mean business and the only way to ease his hunger is to take the bottle. If you are having a hard time doing this, you may want to ask your partner or another person to do this for you at whatever time of the day you choose to train him. take a walk or go somewhere where he can't see you. The more he sees you, the more he will throw a fit as babies can smell your milk. For me, I introduced first the bottle with pumped breast milk. When I felt that he was kinda fine with it, I introduced formula. It took a while before we were able to figure out what forula he liked. Breast fed babies are very particular to the kind of formula they like. It may take some time before you hit the jackpot. Now, my little man is taking homo milk during the day (while am at work) and breast milk at night. You are on the right track of starting to introduce the bottle. This age is the best time to start the training as there is a small window of opportunity between 5-6 months to train him in taking the bottle without much struggle. If you go past that age (i.e. 7 months) both of you will have a hard time letting go of the precious milk from Momma.
Good luck.

Answer 3

Why are you weaning him? Breastmilk is best for the whole first year!
The only way to teach a breastfed baby the bottle is to take away the breast. We had to do it because of supply issues. We set aside a weekend (when dad was home because it is best for someone other than mom to give the bottle) and we were prepared for a long weekend of a fussy baby and trying every bottle on the market. We found the Playtex nurser nipple was the best, it has the hole where the formula goes to to top of the babies mouth instead of back to the throat, more like a breast. Also being a bag bottle it goes with their natural rhythm better.

Answer 4

Please dont do it at 5 months, give him the first year of breastmilk if at all possible.the only exception should be a health issue such as Cancer or the like, or lack of supply causing health issues for baby. honestly, baby gets so much from it, a bond equal to none, goodness in the milk helps baby to fight sicknesses, no exposure to thrushy germs which happen in bottles, nothing unnaturally faked up to imitate your milk. dont give the baby some other animal's milk, baby is human not a cow or goat and has human needs, not known to cows or goats why would any mother give their baby another anmals milk? and those formulas are getting the blame for allergies developed later in life along with overweight issues, i could go on and on with the problems of it - baby is only 5 months, and to get the best start in life both physically and mentally, baby needs your milk...dont let baby be disadvantaged, give it more time, i have listed a website below, it is a New Zealand site, but what they have to say about breast feeding is very universal...good luck whatever you decide to do

Answer 5

My son was weaned at 7 months and it was horrible, I felt like I was taking his favorite thing away from him, but at the same time it had become too painful for me to feed him any longer. I tried pumping and putting that in a bottle and then I tried a million and a half different types of nipples(Dr. Brown's ended up working the best, also one step ahead has a bottle in the shape of a breast that you can order online and it seems to work as well, just a little odd to pull out in public), Once we found a bottle that he would take we started adding formula to the breast milk....It took a while and eventually we just put all formula in a bottle, he hated it and it took 1/2 a day of only offering the formula before he took it, then he had formula only from that point on.....I know what you're going thru, Good Luck!!!!

Answer 6

you may desire to progressively decrease decrease back the quantity of time he spends on the breast at each feeding. If he already takes liquid out of a bottle in basic terms placed milk in it instead. you may bypass to cows milk using fact he's a million yo. in case you desire formula then use that. you should do it 2 techniques, a million) supply a a million/2 bottle of "different" milk then breastfeed as commonly used, optimistically his urge for food isn't as large using milk he has already had, then as time is going by ability of supply him greater milk interior the bottle and much less time on the breast. 2) supply him the breast first, yet no longer as long as established then remarkable up with a bottle of milk. and proceed as consistent with above. This ensures you wean him slowly so which you haven't any longer have been given too many problems with engorgement the two. wish that facilitates, stable success.

Answer 7

I'm not sure why you would want to wean he's only 5 months old he needs breast milk or formula until he's 12 months so if I were you I would just keep nursing him till then. It's cheaper and way better for him then formula. I breast fed my daughter until she was 13 months and she never would take a bottle so I just started giving her a sippy cup around 5-6 months old and by the time she was old enough to wean I just started cutting her nursing down from 3x's a day to 2x's and so on and it was easy she gave it up no traumatic experience and it was easier on me to no engorgement.

Answer 8

Unless you need chemotherapy or a mastectomy, what reason do you have to deprive your child of breastmilk ?

If you don't want to suckle him, pump every 2 to 3 hours around the clock and let him have that in a bottle.

Answer 9

If at all possible, keep him on breastmilk; it's better for his health.

If it is absolutely impossible, just keep giving him the bottle. He will be upset for a while, but he probably won't let himself starve.

Answer 10

My dr. said, just don't offer the breast only offer the bottle, and when he gets thirsty enough, he'll accept the bottle.

Have you ever tasted breast milk? It's sweet. I can see why he would like it best.