Feeding at 10 months
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Topic: Feeding at 10 months
Posted By: BabyOnBoard
Subject: Feeding at 10 months
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 5:55pm
Arabella will be approx 10 months when I return to my training ( Don't want to go). I would like to continue breastfeeding even if I do have to throw in some formula feeds aswell (I know she may even pick bottle over booby). . Was wondering how much a 10 month old feed? I know she will be on solids as well so does that have any bearing?
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 6:18pm
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The amount of feeds for a 10mo varies depending mostly on when you intend to finish feeding in the end. I have bf my girls for 11 1/2 mos, 10 1/2 mos, and 10mos and at the 10m mark they have been having 2-3 feeds per day. The most important ones at that point are last thing at night and first thing in the morning, and at that age I started introducing cows' milk as the lunch time drink.
With Kryssi at 10mos I was formula feeding her x2 in the day (morning and afternoon) and bf evening and morning, but as my boobs were losing their 'stuffing' it got more sore to feed. That had happened towards the end of the other two girls feeding as well but I thought that was because I was pg with the next baby. So I switched Kryssi right to formula at that time to save the soreness. I'm sure that if I was feeding her 4-5 times per day at that point (and perhaps looking to wean at 15-18mos instead of 12) I would have been fine. -------------  |
Posted By: BabyOnBoard
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 6:47pm
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So it would be possible to try just bfding at morning and night? If I didn't start running out ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: BuzzyBee
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 7:18pm
Omg 2-3 feeds?
Lucas still feeds 8-10 times per day....2-3 feeds just at night! Thats with solids .... he's a titty man  (haha lets hope that's the ONLY thing he has in common with his father)
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Posted By: 3boys
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 7:35pm
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You might not need to give formula at all by that age. I went back to work par time when my second was 9 months old and he used to feed in the am - would go to DC at 9am, drink water and have solids there and would then feed again at am when I picked him up - he would feed more in the evenings but I didn't mind as I missed him all day. I used to leave EBM at DC for him (I used to express while at work), but he never bothered with it.
Mum2Lucas - may baby is a tity man too - he feeds nonstop day and night  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 8:22pm
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Wow that's really different! ------------- |
Posted By: BuzzyBee
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 8:46pm
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Busymum how long would Kryssi feed for on the breast (each side) at one feed around 9-10months?
It is a hard business not knowing how much bub is getting when you breastfeed but I believe they take what they need and they let you know when they are full ...either by falling asleep or eventually pushing the breast away! And you can judge by their growth as to whether they are drinking/eating sufficiently! Sucks that plunket doesn't do regular check ups each month ...instead only like 3 months, 6 months...9ish and one year! By the time 2-3months has gone inbetween each appointment they could have lost a lot of weight! (although i think you'd notice if it was that dramatic)...but still! ------------- Single Mum to a darling wee boy of 3 years :) |
Posted By: BabyOnBoard
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 9:52pm
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Oh yay so it is possible!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 9:54pm
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You can always go into Plunket rooms or book a check-up with the GP. All of it is free, so if you're worried, go for it!
Mum2Lucas - nearly 10 mins a feed (I only know cause I had it all timed perfectly with going to work haha) ------------- |
Posted By: yummymummy
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 10:50pm
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Wow you are planning ahead!
Gina is just over 10 months now and has 4 bottles (she's on formula) of 260ml each. Sometimes she'll eat the full 260ml, sometimes she'll only have 150ml. She also has 3 solid meals a day. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 06 January 2008 at 8:40am
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I am still bfeeding Alize. I went back to work when he was 8mths and he started having 1 formula bottle with his caregiver and I was gong to bfeed in my lunch break. That turned out to be a waste of time b'cos he wasnt all that interested at that time of the day. So I stopped going and just bfeed morning and night and the rest of the time he has a bottle. On my days off thou he thinks all his christmases have come at once as he is on off all day lol ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: jaz
Date Posted: 06 January 2008 at 9:46pm
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Yes you can BF morning and night, and no you shouldn't run out. I am back at work at Caleb is home with DH. His routine is
Wake up, BF, breakfast, short play, long sleep. Mid to late morning - wake up, play, bottle, lunch, play, bed Early to mid afternoon - wake up, play, bottle, play, sometimes a sleep Late afternoon - Mum gets home, BF, dinner, play, BF, bed. Caleb has 300-400 ml formula a day, some days we meet for lunch and I BF so he only has one bottle. I have been on holiday for two weeks and he's gone back to being pretty much fully BF but he does have food. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 06 January 2008 at 10:09pm
| By that point Jack was only on 3 at the most but he was a solids man and would way prefer solids over boob. It is definately possible to not need to use formula and then feed more on the weekends. |
Posted By: BabyOnBoard
Date Posted: 06 January 2008 at 10:10pm
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yummymummy- I am a bit of an over-organiser. Need to know if it's possible now hehe.
Arabella is most likely going into darecare and I will be gone from 8 - 5 (including travelling time) so depending on how many BFs she is having at 10months I can plan out how it works. Do they still use bottles then or can you use sipper cup thingys. Lol can you tell this is all new to me?! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 06 January 2008 at 10:15pm
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Yep they can still use bottles. Andrew was weaned from a bottle at about 18 odd months and I will do the same with Josh. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 06 January 2008 at 10:59pm
| I'd say you can use whatever is easier for you. Jack was weaned at 13 months and he didn't drink any milk at all for a month until i managed to get him into cows milk from a cup. |
Posted By: yummymummy
Date Posted: 07 January 2008 at 8:14am
Gina drinks her milk from a bottle still. We have a sippy cup but that's for water only and more of a novelty thing still  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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